How to unfreeze the frozen image
Jiaming Zhang
Jiaming Zhang
How to unfreeze the frozen image
semester topic „Eins Werden Berliner Vereine“two channel videoinstallation, 16:9, color, 7:00 min, 0:44 min, 2024
When the ice bath is viewed as an action, it is framed as an event that takes place. In the eye of the story, we see a frozen temporality in which neither image, text nor video are any more, but only the action itself. What cannot be ignored is that the human body becomes a mediator in this process, undergoing changes in bodily perception, each person having their own unique experience that is fascinating to observe verbally or through words. And how the body interacts with the temperature and the water becomes a proposition: is it the stimulation that brings the body into action, or is it the accumulation of the psychological level, as in the case of photographic exposure, we always ignore the process of that moment, so how to decipher the frozen image?