维也纳之旅（2020）A Trip to Vienna (2020)
25 7月 2024
A Trip to Vienna, 2020
在2020年4月3日离开隔离房间之前，艺术家在壁画上写下：“我已经结束了在这个房间的时间和我的维也纳之旅。”
The artist wrote “I have done my time and my trip to Vienna in this room” on the wall painting on April 3, 2020, before leaving his quarantine room
维也纳之旅
2020
行为、文档（旅行日记、墨水、
铅笔、彩色铅笔绘画、拍立得照
片、索引便利贴、密封袋、拾得
物）
A Trip to Vienna
2020
Performance, documentation (ink, pencil, colored pencil on paper, polaroids, index sticky notes, plastic bags, found objects)
这是艺术家的第一件行为艺术作品，是在上海的一家维也纳酒店隔离期间完成的。从2020年3月22日中午到2020年4月3日中午，总共被隔离了14天，包括2020年3月21日被困在上海浦东国际机场的那一天。
通过记录在隔离房间中的日常生活，艺术家在12张A4纸上记录了他完整的12天隔离生活。此外，他还在互联网上研究维也纳， 并杜撰了自己在这座城市的旅行故事。
每张A4纸的上半部分是他在隔离期间被要求进行的每日两次体温测量、房间消毒和通风的检查清单。下半部分则是艺术家用日记、彩色铅笔画和拍立得照片编写的维也纳旅行故事。
The first performance art created by the artist was completed during his quarantine at a Vienna Hotel in Shanghai. He was quarantined for a total of 14 days, from noon on March 22, 2020, to noon on April 3, 2020, including the day he was stranded at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on March 21, 2020.
By documenting daily life in his quarantine room, the artist recorded his 12 days of quarantine on 12 pieces of A4 paper. Additionally, he researched Vienna on the internet and created fictional travel stories set in the city.
The top half of each of the 12 pieces of A4 paper contains checklists for twice-daily body temperature measurements, room disinfection, and room ventilation required during quarantine. The bottom half features diaries, colored pencil drawings, and Polaroids depicting imaginary stories of a trip to Vienna.
Two floor plans of the original hotel room and the rearranged hotel room
Original hotel room
Rearranged hotel room
2020年3月20日，在澳大利亚因COVID-19疫情而关闭边境之前，我从墨尔本飞往上海。我于傍晚降落在上海浦东机场，并在机场度过了一整夜。21日下午，我抵达维也纳集团旗下的维纳斯国际酒店进行隔离。
这家酒店的装修风格是欧式的，我被安排在了555号房间隔离。这是一个双人间，但只铺了一张床。我将在这里度过14天的隔离期，打发时间是即将到来的隔离期要面临的主要问题。在观察完这个房间之后，我打算在接下来的14天里做一个行为作品。我没有去过维也纳，但我想把在这个房间里的隔离想象成一次维也纳之旅。
我重新设计了原来的酒店房间，把它布置出不同的区域，除了浴室和迷你吧的部分。我把它重新布置成了一个有客厅、卧室、书房、阳台和健身房的房间。这样，在接下来的日子里，我就可以在这些地方相应地进行不同的活动。从概念上讲，我的活动空间也扩大了。
根据酒店的要求，每天必须得做几件事：比如消毒房间和测量体温。我看过一些文章，说是每15分钟喝一次水可以有效预防 COVID-19 的感染。所以我设置了65个闹钟，提醒自己每天从早上8点到午夜12点在醒着的时候喝水，并向酒店要了几张A4纸，做了一个清单记录下来。我同时还做了另一张清单，记录每天要做的事情，并在清单下面的空白处写下我的旅行日记。
我觉得有趣的是，即使我在维也纳，在今天COVID-19爆发的情况下，我仍然会一个人在酒店里自我隔离，因为我总是一个人旅行。我想把这件作品命名为《维也纳之旅》。
Date: 22/03/2020
On March 20, 2020, I flew from Melbourne to Shanghai before the border closure in Australia due to the COVID-19 outbreak. I landed at Shanghai Pudong Airport in the evening and spent a whole night at the airport. On the 21st, I arrived at Vienna Group’s Venus International Hotel in the afternoon for quarantine.
This hotel is decorated in a European style. I was arranged to be quarantined in room 555. This is a double room, but only one bed was made up. I will spend my 14 days quarantine here, the main problem I am facing for the upcoming quarantine is consuming time. After observing this room, I want to make a performance work in the next 14 days. I have never been to Vienna, but I’d like to imagine the quarantine in this room as a trip to Vienna.
I redesigned the original hotel room and set it up into different areas, except for the bathroom and minibar section. I rearranged it into a room with a living room, a bedroom, a study room, a balcony, and a gym. In this way, I can do different activities in these places accordingly in the following days, and conceptually my activity space has been expanded as well.
According to the hotel’s instructions, several things must be done every day, such as disinfecting the room and taking body temperature. I have read articles suggesting that drinking water every 15 minutes can effectively prevent infection by the COVID-19, so I set 65 alarms to remind me to drink water from 8 am to midnight every day while I am up, and I asked the hotel for some A4 paper to make a checklist to record it. At the same time, another checklist was made to record what I have to do every day, and I will write my travel diary down on the blank below the checklist.
I find it interesting that even if I were in Vienna I would still be self-quarantined in a hotel alone under today’s COVID-19 outbreak circumstance because I always travel alone. I want to name it A Trip to Vienna.
今天，我花了很多时间绘制原酒店房间和我重新布置的房间的平面图。因为没有尺子，我只能用键盘来画直线，用键盘真的很难画出准确的尺寸。房间里的铅笔也需要削一削，但我也没有小刀或卷笔刀。我的办法是打开窗户，用建筑的混凝土表面磨铅笔。因为要画的表格很小，我需要锋利的铅笔才能画出细线，所以我必须经常磨铅笔。一共磨了8次！！！
当我开始思考我对维也纳有什么了解的时候，我发现我只知道几件事。事实上，我对奥地利和维也纳了解的并不多。我只知道维也纳音乐厅、维也纳古典学校、多瑙河和电影《爱在黎明破晓前》。当然，还有莫扎特、艺术家埃贡-席勒（Egon Schiele）和古斯塔夫-克里姆特（Gustav Klimt）。
我向去过维也纳的朋友打听这座城市，她给我的一些照片和上海的南京路非常相似。她还告诉我维也纳的食物一点也不好吃。我还问了另一位学音乐的朋友，想跟他了解一下维也纳古典乐派。他建议我读莫扎特的传记。不过，我被隔离了，不知道怎么才能拿到这本书，也许可以下载PDF格式的。
他告诉我《蓝色多瑙河》是一首非常著名的奥地利华尔兹。我以为我没听过，但当我播放时才发现，以前在电影和电视上听过很多次。这个旋律！但我不知道它就是《蓝色多瑙河》。
Date: 23/3/2020
Today I spent a lot of time drawing a floor plan of both the original hotel room and the room I rearranged. I can only use my keyboard to draw straight lines since I don’t have a ruler, it is really hard to draw accurate dimensions with my keyboard. The pencil in the room also needs to be sharpened, but I don’t have a knife or pencil sharpener either. What I did was open the window and grind the pencil with the concrete surface of the building. As the drawing is a small one, I need the pencil to be sharp in order to draw thin lines, so I have to grind it more often. I did it 8 times in total!!!
When I started thinking about what I knew about Vienna, I found that I only knew a few things. In fact, I don’t know much about Austria or Vienna. The only things I know are the Wiener Musikverein, Viennese Classical School, The Danube, and the movie Before Sunrise. Of course, Mozart, and the artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt.
I asked my friend who had traveled to Vienna about this city, some of the photos I received are very similar to Nanjing Road in Shanghai. She told me the food in Vienna was not delicious at all. I also asked another friend who studied music and wanted to know something about the Viennese Classical School. He suggested me to read the biography of Mozart. However, I am quarantined, don’t know how can I get this book, maybe download a PDF.
He told me that The Blue Danube is a very famous Austrian waltz. I thought I hadn’t heard it, but I realized I had heard it many times in movies and on TV before when I played it. The melody! But I didn’t know it was The Blue Danube.
窗外有两家工厂，它们的屋顶都是蓝色的。每天早上醒来，阳光照进我的房间，洒在蓝色的屋顶上。屋顶上的粼粼波光让它们看起来像湖面或海面。我知道维也纳是多瑙河流经的十个国家之一，我想这两个蓝色屋顶就是这里（维也纳）的多瑙河。我打开音箱，大声播放《蓝色多瑙河》，伴随着旋律，我用iPhone拍摄了窗外的多瑙河。我非常高兴和激动，因为我相信我干得不错。这完全就是《蓝色多瑙河》的MV。午饭时，我买的彩色铅笔送到了。然后我开始画窗外的多瑙河，我主要用了蓝色，还用了一点黄色。我想把它命名为 《蓝色多瑙河》。
Date: 24/3/2020
There are two factories outside my window, and their roofs are blue. The sun shines into my room every morning when I wake up, and it spreads out on the blue roofs. The sparkling on the roofs makes them look like the surface of a lake or ocean. I know Vienna is one of the 10 countries that the Danube flows through, I reckon these two blue roofs are the Danube here, Vienna. I turned up my speaker to play The Blue Danube loudly, along with the melody I filmed the Danube outside the window with my iPhone. I was so happy and excited because I believe I have a good job done. It is pretty much like a music video for The Blue Danube. The colored pencil I bought was delivered at lunchtime. Then I started to draw the Danube outside my window, I used blue mostly and a little bit yellow. I would like to name it The Blue Danube
白天在忙北京工作室的工作。
下午给我的朋友高露迪打了电话，也跟我妈妈视频了，聊了聊我要去伦敦艺术大学上学的事情。也和我在上海的朋友Stefan视频，他让我在隔离后去他家住。
我买了一些水果、薯片和我最喜欢的威士忌，因为维也纳的食物实在太难吃了。我今天体温有36.8度，我当时非常紧张。当体温降到36.5度的时候，我就开了威士忌和6罐啤酒庆祝。希望我能平安无事。
我在房间里发现了另一条多瑙河，我在河前自拍了一张，景色还不错。
Date: 25/3/2020
Was busy working with our studio in Beijing during the day.
Called my friend Gao Ludi in the afternoon, had a video call with Mom to discuss my Fine Art study at UAL. Video called Stefan, my friend in Shanghai as well, he asked me to go to his place after my quarantine.
I bought some fruits, chips, and whisky, my favorite, cause the food in Vienna is really bad. My body temperature was 36.8, I was extremely nervous about it. I opened my whisky and 6 cans of beer to celebrate when it came down to 36.5. Hope I will stay safe.
I found another Danube River in my room, I took a selfie in front of it, the view is not too bad.
今天我的体温始终保持在37度左右，这是我隔离期间的最高体温。虽然我的朋友告诉我37度是正常的，但我还是感到压力很大。其实从昨天下午开始，我的体温就越来越高了，体温的升高着实让我吓了一跳。我知道我的体温一直都比较高，但在目前的情况下，我还是非常紧张的。今天我每隔一小时就测量一次体温，现在是37.1度。也许是因为我太紧张了，也许是因为我每天都花很多时间做这个项目，做的时候太兴奋了。也可能是因为房间通风不好，外面又在下雨，气压低，所以呼吸不畅。但是，我能感觉到我的脸和耳朵非常热。
我整天都没有心思去想维也纳，也没有做任何研究。我害怕自己会被感染，这种恐惧让我什么也不能想了。我只是不停地量体温，唯一一次体温降到36.5度是因为我脱掉了上衣，半裸着身体。但穿上后，我的体温又上升了。我在想，如果我被感染了，我可能就无法完成这个项目了，如果真的发生了，那我会非常沮丧。我想我今天应该早点睡觉，就是这样。也许我现在太敏感了，有点脆弱，还是乐观点好。
希望明天一切顺利，希望我能平安无事，希望我能完成这个项目。
Date: 26/3/2020
My temperature is always around 37 degrees today, this is the highest I got so far during my quarantine. Although my friends told me that 37 degrees is okay, I am still stressed out. In fact, it has become higher since yesterday afternoon, the rising temperature did seriously scare me. I believe my temperature is always relatively high, but under the current circumstance, I am still very nervous. I have been taking temperature every each hour today, and now it’s 37.1 degrees. Maybe it’s because I’m too nervous, maybe it’s because I spend a lot of time working on this project every day, and I’m too excited while I am doing it. Or maybe it’s because the room is not well ventilated and it’s raining outside, that means the air pressure is low, that’s why I cannot breathe smoothly. However, I can feel that my face and ears are very hot.
I don’t have my mind for Vienna all day, and I haven’t done any research at all. I am afraid I would be infected, and the fear prevented me from thinking anything. I just kept taking temperature, the only time my temperature dropped down to 36.5 degrees was because I took off my top and half-naked. But after I put it back on, my temperature rose up again. I was thinking that if I got infected, I might not be able to finish this project, and if it happened it would make me very frustrated. I think I should go to sleep earlier today. That’s it. Maybe I’m too sensitive and a bit vulnerable now, it’s better to be an optimist.
Hope everything is gonna be alright tomorrow. Hope I can stay safe. Hope I can finish this project.
我今天参观了美泉宫。我发现弗朗茨-约瑟夫一世卧室的天花板有一部分破损了，于是我把地上的754块碎片都捡起来带走了。弗朗茨-约瑟夫一世是奥匈帝国的君主，1916年因肺炎去世了。
最近，网上出现了一个中式英语短语 “Funny Mud Pee”（放你妈的屁），它与目前爆发的COVID-19有关。
我认为它们都与文明和COVID-19有某种关联。旧的文明和制度被摧毁，新的文明和制度正在以另一种方式逐步建立。
Date: 27/3/2020
I visited the Schönbrunn Palace today. I noticed that a part of the ceiling is broken in Franz Joseph I’s bedroom, I picked up all the 754 fragments on the floor and took them away. Franz Joseph I was the monarch of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and he died in 1916 because of pneumonia.
A Chinglish phrase “Funny Mud Pee” appeared on the Internet recently, and it is related to the current outbreak of COVID-19.
I think they are all somehow related to civilization and to COVID-19 as well. The old civilization and system are destroyed, and the new civilization and system are gradually being established in another way.
我习惯在周末给我住的地方来一次大扫除，今天在打扫的时候我发现了一些新玩意儿。
我猜上一个客人可能是一个喜欢吃瓜籽的女人，她可能会一边吃瓜籽一边在窗边给朋友打电话。有时她会在床上吃，在我重新布置房间之前，我的客厅就是她睡觉的地方。她的脚可能因为穿高跟鞋被磨破了，所以她在这里留下了一张用过的创可贴。
Date: 28/3/2020
I always like to give the place where I live a deeper clean during the weekends, I found some new collections during the cleaning today.
I guess the last guest may be a woman who likes eating sunflower seeds and may probably eat them while calling her friends nearby the window. Sometimes she eats on the bed, before I rearranged the room, my living room was where she slept. Her heels may have been worn out due to wearing high heels, that’s why she left a used band-aid here.
雨下了一整天，气温明显下降。外面的人不多，多瑙河也很平静。这样的天气让我倍感宁静，于是我决定用口琴学习演奏《蓝色多瑙河》。白天我在阳台上练习，但只掌握了一点。在接下来的一周里，我想每天花一些时间练习，直到掌握主旋律。它很简单，但很优美。
Date: 29/3/2020
It was raining all day, and the temperature dropped significantly. There were not many people outside, the Danube was quite calm. The weather made me feel so peaceful, so I decided to learn how to play The Blue Danube with my harmonica. I practiced it on the balcony during the day, but I have only mastered a bit of it. Want to spend some time every day practicing during the next week until I master the main melody. It’s simple but beautiful.
今天忙于北京工作室的工作，直到傍晚才回家，所以没有太多时间练习。但在这里的隔离有一个非常特别的经历，那就是我们必须在大便前在厕所里放10片氯消毒剂。空气中挥发的消毒剂会刺激我的眼睛，所以我上厕所时会戴上泳镜来保护眼睛。戴着泳镜，闻着消毒水的味道，让我想起了游泳池。
我在游泳！！！
虽然今天没有时间练习，但我不会停止练习的。下午，我把拍立得废片铺在纸板上，发现它们看起来很像电影的故事板。我想把这些照片做成作品应该也不错，它们就是蒙太奇。
事实上，我今天一直在思考艺术的质量问题。艺术家不仅要创造质量，还要使用质量。不好的质量也是质量，转换质量就是我们的能力。就像我在厕所里，但我可以游泳。我被隔离了，但我可以去维也纳旅行。
Date: 30/3/2020
Today I was busy working with our studio in Beijing until evening, so there is not much time to practice. But I had a very special experience during my quarantine here, which is we had to put 10 tablets of chlorine disinfectant in the toilet before going to stool, the disinfectant that evaporates in the air makes my eyes feel irritating. So I wear swimming goggles to protect my eyes when I use the toilet. Wearing goggles and the disinfectant smell reminds me of a swimming pool.
I am swimming!!!
Although I don’t have time to practice today, I don’t stop practicing. In the afternoon, I rolled out the photos that I didn’t take as what I wanted on cardboard, and I found that they looked pretty much like a storyboard of a movie. I believe it is also a good idea to make these photos into a work, they are montages.
In fact, I was thinking about the quality in art today. Artists not only produce quality but also use quality. Bad quality is still quality, converting quality is our ability. As I am in the toilet, but I can swim. I am quarantined, but I can have a trip to Vienna.
今天我什么也没做，因为我想体验一下朋友们说的隔离的空虚和无聊。这太可怕了，因为我总是有事可做，总觉得时间过得飞快。但今天我什么也没做，没看一封邮件，没看一分钟电影，甚至没读一页书。今天大部分时间我都躺在床上，和朋友聊天，等待下一个15分钟，但感觉比以往任何时候都要漫长。
Date: 31/3/2020
I did nothing today because I wanted to experience the emptiness and boredom in quarantine that my friends told me. It’s terrible, because I always have something to do, and I always feel time flies. But today I didn’t do anything, didn’t check an email, didn’t watch one minute of a movie, didn’t read even a page of a book. Most of the day I was in bed, chatting with friends, and waiting for the next 15 minutes, but it felt longer than ever.
今天去看了Erwin Wurm的个展。第一次在他的画册上看到他的一分钟雕塑是在大学里。今天试了一下，要达到一分钟真的太难了。而且，一分钟的时间比我想象的要长。
Date: 1/4/2020
Visited Erwin Wurm’s solo exhibition today. The first time I saw his one minute sculpture in his catalogue was in university. Tried it today, and it is really so hard to reach one minute. Also, one minute takes longer than I think.
我明天就要走了。阳光明媚，多瑙河上波光粼粼。我倒了一杯Buteo，只想好好享受在这里的最后一天。
Date: 2/4/2020
I am leaving tomorrow. The sun was shining and sparkling on the Danube. I poured a glass of Buteo, just wanted to enjoy my last day here.
Documentary video on March 31, 2020, 2020, HD video (color, sound), 5°, film stills
Documentary video on April 1, 2020, 2020, HD video (color, sound), 16°, film stills
Records of “Funny Mud Pee” in the Urban Dictionary with the username “A Trip to Vienna”