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Pencil Walker
1996
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SHI Jin-Hua
Pencil Walker
1996
pencil sharpener , zipper bag , document , Wooden board , tape , pencil , recorder
244x976cm、42x29.7cm
Pencil Walker
1996
pencil sharpener , zipper bag , document , Wooden board , tape , pencil , recorder
244x976cm、42x29.7cm
Pencil Walker
1996
pencil sharpener , zipper bag , document , Wooden board , tape , pencil , recorder
244x976cm、42x29.7cm
Pencil Walker
1996
pencil sharpener , zipper bag , document , Wooden board , tape , pencil , recorder
244x976cm、42x29.7cm
Pencil Walker
1996
pencil sharpener , zipper bag , document , Wooden board , tape , pencil , recorder
244x976cm、42x29.7cm
Pencil Walker
1996
pencil sharpener , zipper bag , document , Wooden board , tape , pencil , recorder
244x976cm、42x29.7cm
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Pencil Walker is an extension work of Pen Walking. It is a self-repentance ritual to deal with the helpless nihility of the reincarnation of life. The walker sets up a white wood wall and installs a video recorder opposite to the wall. He uses tape to fasten a pencil sharpener to his left arm and a voice recorder to his right arm. A recording microphone which is connected to the voice recorder is also fastened near his mouth. He activates the video recorder and the voice recorder, sharpening a pencil with the pencil sharpener around his arm. He walks to and fro in front of the white wall as he continuously draws a line with his pencil. Meanwhile, the walker chants the Hua Yen Confession Sutras: “for all the evil deeds I have committed in the past, created by my body, mouth, and mind, from beginningless greed, anger, and delusion, I now know shame and repent them all” to start the work. He walks as he draws the line, chanting sutras, incantations, or names of the buddhas/bodhisattvas. The whole process is repeated until it completes the two-hour-and-fifteen-minute work. So far, Pencil Walker has been performed 54 times in more than 15 years.

ARTISTS
10 artworks / 67 exhibition
Performance Art
Shi Jin-Hua’s performance art works can be divided into two major categories – pen walking and measuring. When he performs the action of “pen walking,” each pen and each stroke become the metaphor of human life as well as all what they have ...
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KEYWORDS
SHI Jin-Hua, 2004, Performance Art
SHI Jin-Hua, 2004, Video Art , Performance Art
SHI Jin-Hua, 2001, Performance Art
SHI Jin-Hua, 2008, Performance Art
SHI Jin-Hua, 2004-2008, Video Art , Performance Art
SHI Jin-Hua, 2008, Performance Art
SHI Jin-Hua, 1996, Performance Art
SHI Jin-Hua, 2008, Performance Art
SHI Jin-Hua, 2010, Performance Art