Will XiaoChen be better
tomorrow?
Video
5’35’’
2020
*This work is a collaboration between Cao Wenqing, An Sitong and
Luyun She.
One day I had a heated argument with a friend called Tomorrow
Chen about 'expression'. Chen works as a bartender and has a
dream of being a rock star that has never been realised, and
when I talked to him about the music he suddenly came under
fire (I also have a loose band as well), mainly about the
expression of the music. The weird thing was that while we were
talking about expression, both of us were suffering from a
constant misunderstanding with every expression, and I tried so
hard to continue the conversation, but what I do only let the
conflict escalate.
I hired 11 actors to enter the bar where he worked one by one,
they are playing customers who didn't know each other, sitting
in twos and threes. As he began to make his statements, the
eleven customers surrounded him like paparazzi with cameras
and recording equipment and asked him 100 questions. After
the questions, everyone ran back to the bar and continued to
drink and chat as if nothing had happened, with Chen coming in
last, applauding and buying each actor a short drink, but I was
still enemies with Chen.