



Qiheng Chen
22:49
China
Bahasa Indonesia
How Orchids Think: Become(ing) Orchid
兰花如何思考:成为兰
2024
国际首映 International Premiere
Qiheng's work, How Orchids Think: Becoming Orchids, begins with Darwin's anecdote of "unveiling the theater of orchids," leading into an exploration of the discovery, history of introduction, cultural symbolism, and mimetic properties of orchids. The mimetic biological qualities of orchids prompt the artist to imagine an ideal, fluid, and hybrid bodily state. In this piece, the artist learns the "orchid fingers" gesture, wears orchid-like attire, and imitates the "postures" of orchids in an attempt to "become an orchid." At the end of the video, it presents an "Orchid Manifesto": "Many of us have never become orchids, so for us, orchid is an ideality, distilled from the past to imagine the future. We encourage all orchids to come out."
啟恒的作品《兰花如何思考:成为兰》从达尔文“揭秘兰花的剧场”的轶事开始,展开对兰花的发现、引种历史、文化象征以及拟态属性的研究。兰花的拟态生物属性令创作者不禁去想象一种理想的、流动和混杂的身体状态。在作品中,艺术家学习“兰花指”,身着状似兰花的服装、模仿兰花的“姿态”,试图“成为兰”,并在影像结尾提出“兰花宣言”——“我们中的许多人从来没有成为过兰花,所以兰花对我们来说是一种理想,它可以从过去提炼出来,用来想象未来。我们鼓励所有兰花走出来。”