This work continues the artist's long-term inquiry into collective negotiation, non-verbal communication, and the emergence of group dynamics. Framed by a set of movable stools and a series of open-ended action scores, the work invites performers and participants to place, move, combine, and rearrange objects within a shared space, continuously responding to the environment, others, and the unfolding situation. Within the work, the stools function simultaneously as furniture, performance props, and provisional sculptures; the participants operate at once as performers, initiators, and spectators; and the gallery space serves as both a physical site and a social venue as well as a psychological sandbox. The relationships among objects, space, and people shift ceaselessly with each action, collectively constituting a temporary structure that perpetually generates, dismantles, and reorganizes itself.
Inspired by the Tree-House-Person (HTP) test, the work attempts to translate the tree, house, and person—originally rendered through drawing—into a relational system within real space: objects become mediators of action, space becomes a structure perpetually organized and reorganized, and the distances, collaborations, waits, and responses among people form an ever-evolving social network. Participants act according to simple rules, yet these rules provide no explicit goal. Rather than treating the tree, house, and person as symbols awaiting interpretation, the work approaches them as open structures of objects, space, and relationships—within which people collectively generate meaning and construct a temporarily established order through action, observation, and projection.
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