Weng jiayang
翁嘉阳














 This work enacts a material critique of the myth of modernity. Coal is more than mere fossil fuel; it is the "dirty evidence of time." Every lump is an ancient corpse compressed by geological strata—the very fuel that ignited the Industrial Revolution. If the precarious coal tower symbolizes a civilized order built upon finite extraction, its inevitable collapse lays bare the inherent fragility of that order.

Informed by Byung-Chul Han’s The Burnout Society, the artist's body in this performance functions not as a sovereign agent, but as an alienated laborer. Confined within a vertical transport vessel (an elevator), the friction between flesh and coal—and the amalgamation of sweat and soot—collapses the grand narratives of growth and progress into the visceral reality of physical pain and fatigue.



本作品是对现代性神话的一次实体批判。煤炭不仅是化石燃料，它是“时间的脏物证”。每一块煤都是被地层压缩的远古尸体，是工业革命的燃料。如果不稳定的煤塔象征着建立在有限资源上的现代文明秩序，那么其必然的坍塌则揭示了这种秩序的脆弱性。

受韩炳哲（Byung-Chul Han）关于“倦怠社会”的论述启发，艺术家的身体在表演中不再是主宰者，而是异化的劳工。在这个封闭的垂直运输工具（电梯）中，身体与煤炭的摩擦、汗水与煤灰的混合，将关于增长与进步的宏大叙事还原为肉体的痛楚与疲惫。


Coal, performance, video

Rising Strata
上升地层

Video Link