Although bowing isn’t used as an everyday form of etiquette in China (as it is in Japan or Korea), it remains an important spiritual gesture. Physically, lowering the body works as a sign of humility. On a symbolic or spiritual level, however, bowing also reinforces the social hierarchy—it’s a bodily reproduction of social order. This is an internalized form of discipline: people don’t bow because they’re explicitly told to, but because they know they’re supposed to. And that is exactly how power operates in its most subtle form.
Video:
Director - Yifan Guo
Videographer - Han Zhang / Yifan Guo
Editor - Yifan Guo
Cast:
Employer - Yongyun Zhang
Employee - Yifan Guo
Assistant A - Yuemeng Gu
Assistant B - Jiawei Li
Past Performance:
虽然鞠躬在中国不像日本韩国那样作为日常礼仪，但它依然是一个重要的精神性姿态。从身体层面看，俯身低头是谦卑的表征，而在象征或精神层面，鞠躬同时也在强化社会等级，它是礼教秩序的身体性复现。人们鞠躬未必因为有人明确要求他们这样做，而更多是因为他们知道自己应该这样做，而这恰恰正是权力以最微妙的方式通过身体来运行。
视频制作:
导演 - 郭艺帆
摄影 - 张涵 / 郭艺帆
剪辑 - 郭艺帆
演员:
总裁 - 张永韵
员工 - 郭艺帆
秘书A - 谷悦萌
秘书B - 李嘉薇
首演艺术家 - Black Page Orchestra:
长笛 - Alessandro Baticci
萨克斯 - Florian Fennes
电吉他 - Ruben Mattia Santorsa
架子鼓 - Igor Gross / Kaja Farszky
电声执行 - Matthias Kranebitter / 郭艺帆
过往演出：
