“ Hygiene” No.3
单视频录像／single channel video
无声，彩色，24分45秒，PAL制式
silent, color, 24’45”, PAL
记录给鸡洗澡的过程:将一只活鸡放入水盆中,用肥皂和清水不断搓洗，持续150分钟,直至摄像机内的录像带走完。 影像镜头无变化。给鸡洗澡是在爱国卫生运动的背景下完成的。之所以决定洗鸡而不是其他，是因为通常洗鸡被认为是不正常的, 鸡不喜欢水，这是大多数人的看法，是一个公认的事实。但是其实，没有人知道鸡对于在水 里洗澡的真实感受是什么，因为鸡没有表达的可能性，或者被认为它们根本不会表达。既然这样，为什么我们之前的判断是对的呢？《庄子》中的有“子非鱼” 的说法，在此我们也可以说“子非鸡” 吧？
Recording the process of washing a chicken: a live chicken is placed in a basin, and constantly scrubbed with soap and water for 150 minutes, until the end of the cassette. The camera angle does not change for the duration of the video. The chicken was washed against the backdrop of a patriotic hygiene campaign. The reason a chicken was chosen for washing instead another animal is that it is considered strange to wash chickens. Chickens do not like water. That is the view of most people,something widely agreed as fact. But in reality, no one knows what a chicken feels when being washed in a basin, because chickens lack the ability to express themselves, or we believe that they cannot express themselves. Even so, why is our previous judgment correct? Zhuangzi presents the idea of“you are not a fish, so you cannot know what a fish enjoys.”Could we say“you are not a chicken?”