Have you ever wondered what survives your death? The natural youngster? Your spirit? Your work? Does history survive material or spiritual, left the objects or words? Is the artist's heritage an open and ongoing archive of spiritual stories? This paper derives the method of presenting a visual exhibition from the oral history research of the special topic "Oral Hu Yichuan", to discuss the establishment of the attitude and concept of "archive as a method", and consider the contemporary significance of the artist's life story being shattered into countless new fragments of memory that can be continued with each other by the public. A four-week exhibition organized around the oral history research of the artist's case, showed the process of oral, text, image, works, video, space, time and derivative creation of new behaviors, arising from a multi-dimensional impression that can be constructed by the republic of time and space, trying to restore the historical scene for today. Can the exhibition space become a clear historical archive scene, and can it restore the real scene or real history? Or co-create an infinite spiritual world of artists/people containing symbolic meaning? The research will investigate audience's feedback behaviors obtained after the practice of this exhibition, initially explore the meaning of a historical connection game or archival construction relational network that I am after. Finally, let me ask you again, have you ever wondered what survives your death?

Authors:
Shanshan Xiao, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China

About the Presenter(s)
Ms Shanshan Xiao is a University Doctoral Student at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in China

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