April 2022
FELTDARK

JINGWEI BU
Video Works

Week One: 人／Ren /People
Week Two: Moving Stone
Week Three: As Extended Bench

As a multidisciplinary and performance artist, Jingwei Bu performs in response to life events that are recorded with one fixed lens and simple lighting resource. This particular shooting set-up is Bu’s experiment on a meditated way of presenting live performance with video documentation. This is achieved by one fixed lens for shooting and zero editing. This approach enables the viewing experience as much similar as viewing live performance. Either assisted by people around for a spontaneous performing or shot by professional videographer for a planned performance, Bu perform for urgent expression of personal life experience and happenings in the world as society. Bu explores video as a new material to extend the philosophical questioning of life journey. The ‘人/Ren/People‘ is first made during the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic, then reshoot with professional assistance; the second piece ’Moving Stone‘ is created to express the understanding of life as of multiple roles and responsibilities we naturally carry and move on with resilience; The third piece ‘As Extended Bench’ is shot by a friend in Mount Lofty Botanical Gardens. It shows the challenge to her own body strength since her two life risky deliveries.