One Meter Democracy

One Meter of Democracy (2010) challenged the endurance of viewers, as well as the courage of the artist. In a quasi-democratic process, He Yunchang invited approximately 20 friends to vote in a secret ballot on whether he should have a surgeon cut a one metre incision the length of his body, from collar bone to knee, without anaesthesia. The vote was carried by a narrow majority, with several abstaining. The performance was documented in video and photographs that reveal the emotional cost of witnessing this gruelling event. This work, somet...

Missing

Qin Xiaoyue discovered that her shared roommate Xiao Yun disappeared suddenly, but because of insufficient evidence, she did not attract the attention of the criminal policeman Wen Sheng. She decided to find Xiao Yun's whereabouts by herself, but was obstructed by her friend Li Zhongping. Yun was once the lover of Ma Zheng, the boss of Marriott Real Estate Company, and she holds the video evidence of Ma Zheng's shady dealings, which is hidden beside Qin Xiaoyue, but no one can find it.