如果你养了一只鹦鹉,你教他(她)说什么?
If you have a parrot, what words would you teach him (her)?


2001
录像装置  2001

拍摄不同的人用短句回答这个问题“如果你养了一只鹦鹉,你教他(她)说什么?”,画面中只出现说话的嘴。展览时在播放录像的监视器上豢养一只鹦鹉,现场教授。

首次展览于“附体:摄影和录像”(杭州,2011)

Video installation 2001

In this film the artist has recorded multiple people answering the same question:”if you had a parrot what would you teach him to say?”When watching the video one can only see the mouth of the person speaking,and can only hear the words or phrases each participant chose.While on exhibition,the artist presented the video on a horizontally set monitor,on top of the monitor was placed a parrot.While the participants answer the question they also teach the parrot in reality.

First displayed in Mantic Ecstasy,Digital Image and Video Art(Hangzhou,2001)