Volume III

performance art

I'll write you poems, through what separates us. - Cheslav Miłosz

There was an old man herding sheep, and he found a pile of soil near a viaduct on the Beijing-Harbin Expressway, the soil was fresh, and it was obvious that someone had buried something here. The old man was very curious, so he went home and got a shovel to dig, and the little granddaughter went with him. Digging half a meter deep, a strange thing appeared in the soil. The thing looked like a stone, not very hard, yellowish in color, and white.

The little granddaughter asked, "Grandpa, what is this?"

The old man was well-informed, and wondered if this could be the Tai Sui of folklore.

The grandfather and grandson squatted down, the old man wiped the soil adhered to the "stone" with his hands, vaguely saw something inside, and after wiping the surface clean, the old man finally saw clearly, he was so frightened that he sat on the ground, and then took his granddaughter's hand and ran.

The little granddaughter also saw it, and she cried, so frightened that she ran and urinated at the same time, and her skirt was soaked.

Chapter 11: The Amber Child's Corpse

When we go to the wilderness, in the middle of nowhere, we only need to look carefully to find a suitable place to bury the body.

We just don't know what kind of corpses are buried underneath.

In August 2011, a buried child corpse was found under a viaduct near Songzhuang Town, Tongzhou District, Yanjing City. The police in the same state received a report and cleaned this piece of amber, and it can be seen that although the amber is synthetic, the craftsmanship is very high, and the appearance is crystal clear, as smooth as brown glass. Amber wrapped around a little boy, only about a year old, the age of a toddler, wearing a white cardigan gown, leaky crotch shorts, and a new pair of sandals with cartoon patterns on his feet.

The corpse of the child in amber is curled up, its eyes slightly closed, its face is bruised and swollen, and its hands are half-clenched into fists.

A medical examiner was able to determine that the boy had died of homicide using only the naked eye.

Deputy Secretary Huang of the Party Committee of the Tongzhou Branch asked: There has been no autopsy yet, are you sure?

The medical examiner said: No, this boy was strangled to death.

Strangulation, the forensic medical term is called strangulation, strangulation is homicide, and occasionally death by mistake.

Through the pale yellow amber, it can be clearly seen that the child corpse has obvious crescent-shaped nail marks on the neck, one strangulation on the right side of the neck, and four strangulation marks on the left side of the neck. Strangulation is more common in cases of infanticide, rape and robbery. Strangulation is a very common method of killing, and forensic doctors are usually exposed to a large number of strangulation cases.

The murderer strangled the boy to death, made amber and buried it in the ground, this case is too bizarre and terrifying, despite the police to make secrecy measures, but still leaked the news, which has a bad impact on the society.

Deputy Secretary Huang of the Tongzhou Public Security Bureau urgently reported to the Ministry of Public Security, and the special case team drove in. Professor Liang instructed the police in the same state on the phone not to act rashly and not to conduct an autopsy first, because the special case team was eager to see this rare amber corpse with their own eyes.

Deputy Secretary Huang presided over the meeting, and there was originally a pot of plants in the middle of the multimedia conference room, but now it has been replaced by a glass square table, and the amber of the child corpse is placed on the glass table

West.

Professor Liang watched it for a long time and said: There have been some cases of cement sealing corpses in China, and there are also murderers who sealed corpses with wax, and the case of making amber is the first case.

Bao Chu said: There was a case of plaster hiding corpses in Shenzhen, where two murderers robbed and killed a boss, sealed the corpse into a plaster statue with plaster, and threw it into the river.

Su Mei said: I think of a movie, Horror Wax Museum.

Deputy Secretary Huang said: We also have horror wax figures here, and you may see them at art exhibitions in a few days.

Su Mei said: This amber boy corpse looks like a work of art.

Bao Chu said: The use of corpses to make handicrafts is generally used for sale or exhibition, so why bury them?

Professor Leung said: According to common sense, it is speculated that relatives may have killed the boy and made amber to preserve the body.

Deputy Secretary Huang said: The village near the place of the crime has gathered artists from almost all over the country, and the case should not be so simple.

The medical examiner said that the body had not been embalmed, that amber did not preserve the corpse of a child, and that sealing could only delay the decomposition of the body.

Bao Chu said: The murderer either killed his own child or killed someone else's child. It would be terrible if it were someone else's child, maybe a little boy who was randomly kidnapped from the street.

The painting dragon asked: Send the artist to the village, what's the matter?

Professor Liang smiled and said, "You are lonely.

Deputy Secretary Huang introduced the situation of the village, which is located in the countryside, but only a few dozen kilometers away from the urban area.

If you get up at six o'clock in the morning, smell the fresh air of Songzhuang, hum a little song, walk on the boulevard in the countryside, admire the seventy acres of sunflowers planted on both sides of the road, and then change to a bus, it will take less than an hour to reach the bustling Yanjing city.

In 1990, the area around Lou Douqiao near the Old Summer Palace gathered a group of wandering artists in China, including many famous painters who are now well-known at home and abroad. These idealistic people lived near the Old Summer Palace and used it as a base for creation and life, and gradually became a cultural symbol.

At the beginning of 1994, the "Yuanmingyuan Painters' Village" was forced to dissolve from its peak, and the artists moved away from the hustle and bustle of the city to Songzhuang, where more and more artists came one after another, and with the strong support of the local government, the gathering of artistic talents in Songzhuang has formed the largest and most well-known artist community in China.

It is a cultural mecca for artists from Beipiao, and together with the 798 Art District, it has become a landmark of the spiritual road.

The medical examiner used an electric drill and hammer to break open the amber and dissect the child's corpse, which was bleeding from the soft tissues under the skin of the neck and had obvious muscle and bone damage, which further confirmed the cause of the one-year-old boy's death, which was strangled to death about a week ago.

There is a sticker on the navel of the child corpse, no fingerprints were found on it, the murderer should be wearing gloves, the sticker is about half the size of the fingers stretched out and together, and there is a sentence written on it with a carbon pen:

When I rotted into, my words were still alive!

Deputy Secretary Huang said: This sentence should be left by the murderer, what does it mean?

Professor Liang said: Obviously, the murderer wants to be immortal and wants to leave something in this world forever.

Su Mei said: Amber is usually older than 15 million years.

The dragon said: This synthetic fake amber

How long does Pera last?

Bao Chop said: a plastic bag buried in the soil, it will take hundreds of years to degrade, synthetic resin is a synthetic polymer, the most important application is to make plastic, buried in the soil, it is estimated that thousands of years can not rot.

The Special Case Team and Deputy Secretary Huang tend to think that the amber corpse is a work of art, or rather, a work of performance art.

In recent years, performance art has become repugnant as bloody, brutal, and obscene, and perverted. A lot of performance art uses animal and human corpses as materials, and the visual effects are so jaw-dropping that some viewers vomit on the spot.

In 2002, a performance artist married a mule.

In 2003, a performance artist tied himself to a beam of his house with iron chains, and with the help of doctors, the blood from his body dripped onto a heated dish, and people watched his blood boil, scorch, and evaporate.

There's also a performance artist who eats a baby and takes a picture with his camera to record the whole creepy process.

These appalling and incomprehensible performances took place in China, triggering public shock and criticism, and the Ministry of Culture issued a notice banning the performance or display of bloody and brutal scenes of performance art.

As an art group, there are many painters, sculptors and performance artists.

Deputy Secretary Huang said that the number of professional artists engaged in performance art creation is about 100 people, which is a loose group, most of the artists are born in easel painting, and there are a few musicians engaged in underground rock.

Professor Leung arranged for the investigation of the source of the corpse to be the focus of the investigation of the unknown corpse.

The police in the same prefecture immediately issued a notice to all sub-bureaus to assist in the investigation, and the police stations and police offices under their jurisdiction counted the list of the recently missing one-year-old boy, compared it with the deceased, and asked the family to identify it.

The special case team was stationed in Songzhuang and conducted a survey of the personnel engaged in performance art one by one, focusing on finding molds and raw materials for making artificial amber.

Ten years ago, it was a remote village, but now there are many restaurants, and even a commercial street, with different styles of decoration and artistic decoration of roadside shops, and many foreigners with cameras can be seen on the street.

Deputy Secretary Huang drove to Songzhuang with a team of criminal police and a special case team, and as soon as he arrived at the police office, a bald man broke in, he took out a pair of handcuffs and handcuffed himself, shouting to see the leader.

The bald man shouted, "I want to see your biggest official here."

Deputy Secretary Huang asked the person in charge of the police office in confusion: Is this person a thief?

The person in charge of the police office said: We didn't arrest it, you see the handcuffs, he was handcuffed himself.

Su Mei asked: What does this person want to do, does he want to report the crime?

Drawing Dragon warned: Don't make trouble.

The bald man said: I won't report the crime, I will turn myself in.

Professor Liang asked, "What did you do?"

The bald man said, "I know you dug up an amber under the bridge, and I want to talk to the leader."

Deputy Secretary Huang pointed to Professor Liang and said: This is the leader of the special case team, and his position is the highest.

Professor Liang said: I see that you are indeed quite sincere, and you have put on the handcuffs yourself, let's talk about it.

The bald man said, "There's a child in the amber, and that's a work of art that I created, called "Frozen Summer."