A new insight into non-human consciousness --- using plants as a guide.

Adonis & GouMang /阿多尼斯与句芒 is an art project inspired by myths and legends, treating AR as a narrative tool in speculative film, embedded performance art with city walking. The project aims to create a dialogue between different topiary cultures.

Wenqing Yao and Yi Zhu (Icey), as co-directors, are both concerned with ecological issues. This time they focused on the pruned plants in the city. Inspired by theories of ‘Dark Ecology’ and ‘Ecology as slave’, artists found out urban plants are compressed and controlled by humans. They used the consciousness of plants to embed the experience and expose ecological ethics to the public.

• Officially selected by HiShorts! Film Festival 2021, China 
• Exhibited in At the edge of Safehouse, 2022, Safehouse2, London