SINING ZHU 

San Francisco's Chinatown is the oldest in the United States. The city gradually became more touristy as early immigrants and the town developed. The main street is decorated with vibrant American Chinese-style graffiti, and the sophisticated shops and merchandise attract many foreign visitors. However, the nearby side streets are the actual world of the old immigrants - small shops, depressed streets, noisy food markets, restaurants, and spice shops. Most of the elderly immigrants wear warm cotton jackets and waistcoats. Along with the decaying building, they are drowned out by colorful tourist streets and crowds of tourists.


I emptied the cotton from the clothing and refilled the spices and dust collected in Chinatown. The audience is invited to sweep it surrounding the clothes sculpture to the center. As the sweeping， mixed spices create an indistinguishable, strange, and familiar odor. Moreover, three old-fashioned radio inside the dress emits sounds, recording the streets, shops, tourists, residents, etc. The chaotic, inaudible multi-channel sound gradually becomes more evident with time, eventually becoming pale white noise. The whole of Chinatown, the tourists, the old immigrants, and all those present are bewildered and confused with the unconscious multicultural invasion and the alienated notion of identity and belonging.

坐落于旧金山的中国城是美国最老的中国城。城区随着早期移民发展和城市建设逐渐旅游化。主街两边艳丽的美式中国风涂鸦，精致的店铺和商品吸引了大量的外国旅客。相对暗淡的副街则是真正老移民的天地——狭小的店铺，萧条的街道，嘈杂的菜市场，小餐馆和香料店。大多数老移民都穿着具有保暖性的棉袄，马甲，苍老的他们和逐渐没落的城区淹没在五彩斑斓的旅游街道和成群的游客中。


我收集chinatown副街道上的衣服，香料和灰尘。将其里面的棉花掏出并重新填入收集的香料和灰尘进去。多种香料混合在一起，形成难以辨别，陌生又熟悉的味道。观众被邀请随意使用扫把将衣服雕塑周围的粉尘清扫至中间。衣服里的老式收音机发出嘈杂声音，记录着街道，商店，游客，居民等。被混杂的，难以听清的多声道声音随着时间逐渐变的清晰，直至最后全部变成苍白的白噪音。连接历史，当下和未来，整个chinatown，游客，老移民以及所有在场者都随着无意识的多文化入侵和被异化的身份认知和归属而消失和迷惑。