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Fig. 20 Original
installation detail, 2020.
CHANCE OF CONTACT
Site-specific installation
Sound, silicone feet and existing curtain
postpost space, Beijing
2020
This site-specific installation places a pair of lifelike silicone feet beneath an existing green curtain at postpost space in Beijing. Intermittent coughing suggests a concealed body, prompting some visitors to enter the room and search for its source. Made during the COVID-19 pandemic, the work examines how an ordinary bodily sound became a signal of danger, shaping perceptions of distance, safety and acceptable public behaviour. It presents itself as an “artistic apparatus for psychological healing,” proposing that repeated false alarms might weaken the association between coughing and impending disaster. This therapeutic promise remains uncertain. The apparatus produces the alarm it claims to undo, placing visitors between suspicion and reassurance. Through sound, a partially visible body and the exhibition space, the work explores how fear is organised through sensory cues, and how an apparatus can claim authority by offering to resolve a disturbance it has itself set in motion.
//Fig. 19 AI-assisted reconstruction, 2026, based on original 2020 photographs.