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construct and destruct

Construct and Destruct
2008 
Performance - Homantin - Hong Kong
Video Documentary 2 min 2 sec
Materials: Sands. Sand-claying Tools
It is all about complaint.

You must agree that there are too many digging occurs on roads almost everyday. Without a long-term underground planning, there is no underground “store region” provided for different underground pipes, wires etc. Workers cannot just go underground and correct the pipes like what they do in electrical-meter-room. Once a party needs to make any adjustments for the pipes, wires, etc, they dig the road, and then repair/cover it after modification being made.

CLP digs underground for improving the electrical wires on Monday; afterward they repair the roads on Tuesday. Then Drainage Services Department digs that place again for checking the pipes on Wednesday and repairs it on Thursday. PCCW needs to maintain network systems, so dig and repair such area on Friday. What numberless digging and repairing results is inefficiency usage of resource and unbearable pollution, especially the noise pollution that we suffer in early morning.

To express this anger, a city is being constructed in where the workers destructed (the road). The city is being built with the same sands that being dug out from the road. A city should be in harmony and with efficient planning, rather that just solving by erasion and thoughtless pulling resources. It is always easy to destruct, but what valuable is more than that.

Playing with sand maybe naïve, but I am not the only one. 

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