Performers: Tan Tan and other participating artists, the audience

Materials: mirror, breath, fire, snow, soil, people

Time: 23:00 to 24:00 on December 31, 2018

Location: Siziwangqi, Ulanchabu League, Inner Mongolia

Temperature: -30 degrees

Assistance: Liu Youxin, Hao Ruichang, Liu Peiwen

Photography: Huang Qingjun

＊Performed in the 6th “Burnt of Snow” Performance Art Season

The venue of the performance art festival: snow-covered grassland and yurts

In the last hour of 2018, Tan Tan initiated a healing ritual that connected with nature, to ring out the Old and ring in the New.

She asked over twenty people to form a circle on the snow, telling them that she would work with them to do something that everyone is doing every second, that is, breathing.

But this time, whenever they breathe in, she hopes them to feel the primal energy coming from the bottom of the earth; whenever they breathe out, she asked them to imagine the ocean wave washes away the negative energy.

And the exhaled breath became visible in this ceremony because she asked people to exhale to a distorting mirror. The whole action was taken with shamanic drumbeats.

As a result, everyone saw themselves gradually emerging in a flowing psychedelic look in the mirror, and then their faces turned into a blur after they exhaling-the mist instantly becomes frost at a temperature of more than 20 degrees below zero.

After a circle of people exhaled onto the mirror, it turned into a grayish-white that no one could be seen.

Tan Tan invites everyone to come to the campfire, and under everyone's gaze and shouts, the "negative energy" on the two mirrors is turned into water under the scorching fire, and then completely evaporates-the mirror is clear again.

At this Moment, a Tibetan monk came around by chance and started chanting for the ritual.

Tan Tan took out a pot of snow and a pot of soil and sprinkled them into the fire one by one.

After sprinkling the snow and soil, Tan Tan instantly turned the lids of the two containers into gongs and played them rhythmically. With her tempo, the shamanic drumbeats became faster and faster, and the Tibetan monk’s chanting became louder.

People around the campfire were excited, circling, shouting, singing, and saying goodbye to the past year in their own ways.

After the New Year’s bell rang, more and more people gathered here, and gorgeous fireworks rose directly above the campfire.