Synopsis
During this performance, Bolun Shen invited his daughter to replicate his childhood memory with him before a homecoming lunch with his parents. When Bolun was his daughter’s age, he lived with his grandparents for a year. Every afternoon, when he went home after school, instead of ringing the bells, he began to yell out for his grandparents when he was close by. In March 2022, Bolun’s grandmother was about to be sent to a nursing home, and due to the pandemic lockdown, there was a chance it would be the last time to meet her.
Shen Bolun
Shen Bolun, born in China in 1989, explores various media in his works, including video, performance, narrative, and social practice, which oscillate between provocation and tenderness. Bolun constantly documents the large amount of texts generated in his practice, including dialogues, interviews, debates, propaganda writings, public speeches and storytelling, in order to establish or challenge public memory and social norms. His work has been presented in China, Finland, US, Germany, Switzerland etc, and he has collaborated with organizations such as Pro Helvetia, Greenpeace, the United Nations Population Fund, Singapore Art Museum, etc. Bolun is also a public speaker and has given six TEDx talks in China, one of which was featured in the official blog of TED China in 2019.
