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Bull
Kingson Chan
2022
Live Performance Documentary (6:10.20., Colour, HD video, stereo), Cloth 2.7m x 1.6m, body paint, acrylic paint
Missed the chance to experience the Encierros de Blanca (Running of the Bulls in Blanca) that occur in the mid-August every year as the artist’s artist-in-residency programme in Blanca ended in July 2022; and yet the artist speculates that even he could have experienced the event, with addition of many reading materials regarding this event, his understanding of the Encierros de Blanca would always be like the blind man in the parable of Blind Men and An Elephant.
The artist blindfolded himself in front of a bull relief that was created by artist César Fernández Arias located at 18 C. Bo. Nevo, Blanca, where the architectural structure is to be believed for keeping the bulls for the Encierros de Blanca during August. The relief is partially covered with a white cloth, and with a blindfolded sense, the artist employed his body to express his emotion through touching the relief with the body paint and acrylic paint so as to depict the image of the incomplete bull relief.
Kingson Chan
2022
Live Performance Documentary (6:10.20., Colour, HD video, stereo), Cloth 2.7m x 1.6m, body paint, acrylic paint
Missed the chance to experience the Encierros de Blanca (Running of the Bulls in Blanca) that occur in the mid-August every year as the artist’s artist-in-residency programme in Blanca ended in July 2022; and yet the artist speculates that even he could have experienced the event, with addition of many reading materials regarding this event, his understanding of the Encierros de Blanca would always be like the blind man in the parable of Blind Men and An Elephant.
The artist blindfolded himself in front of a bull relief that was created by artist César Fernández Arias located at 18 C. Bo. Nevo, Blanca, where the architectural structure is to be believed for keeping the bulls for the Encierros de Blanca during August. The relief is partially covered with a white cloth, and with a blindfolded sense, the artist employed his body to express his emotion through touching the relief with the body paint and acrylic paint so as to depict the image of the incomplete bull relief.