I stand still on a plinth, holding a fan. There are three distance sensors are carefully embedded on my chest. when audiences use a boom microphone to point my body, sharp sounds occur.  Silence is a sound that needs to be heard. Silence is meditation that needs to be read, Silence is also the intervention of crowd that needs to be seen. Silent doesn’t mean voiceless; if we don’t speak out, it doesn’t mean we don’t care. Silent Participant is a term that I have used to describe Chinese living in the West who are often accused of having no opinions, of being indifferent to any politics, and of often sticking in their own ethnic groups. The silent participants are groups of visible minorities, often invisible but needing to be understood.

photo courtesy of the artist