Planting Plan / 种植计划

Year

2022—

Status

Ongoing

Medium

Photography

Format

Digital photography, ongoing series

Keywords

大学教育 · 服从性教育 · 校园空间 · 植物景观 · 教师与学生 · 荒诞经验 · 利益逻辑

Exhibition / Publication

N/A

项目简介

《种植计划》始于2022年，是我从进入大学任教开始持续推进的一项摄影计划。作品以大学校园空间、植物景观、教师与学生的身体状态为主要线索，观察现代中国大学教育现场中被日常化、制度化和景观化的荒诞经验。这里的“种植”并不只是关于生长，也指向一种被安排、被规训、被固定在特定位置中的状态。机械的服从性教育不断塑造人的姿态、语言和反应方式，使教师与学生在重复的流程、考核和表演中逐渐变得麻木。作品中的人物常常处于停顿、凝视或被环境吞没的状态，他们像是被栽入大学结构中的个体，既属于这里，又与这里保持着微妙的疏离。

这个系列并不试图直接呈现某个单一事件，而是通过持续拍摄，记录大学教育系统内部那些难以被正式叙述的细节：看似偶然的规定、重复的仪式、失效的沟通、被包装的成果，以及各种“奇葩”现象背后隐秘而稳定的利益逻辑。大学在这里不再只是知识生产和思想训练的场所，而成为一种复杂的社会样本：权力、绩效、服从、欲望与生存策略交织其中。《种植计划》试图以冷静的影像方式，呈现人在这种环境中如何被塑造、适应、消耗，也如何在缝隙中保留自己的感知。

Project Statement

Planting Plan began in 2022, when I started teaching at a university, and has continued as an ongoing photographic project. The series follows campus spaces, plant landscapes, and the bodily states of teachers and students as its primary lines of observation. It looks at the absurd experiences that become normalized, institutionalized, and landscaped within modern Chinese university education. In this project, “planting” is not only about growth. It also points to a condition of being arranged, disciplined, and fixed into a specific position. Obedience-based education repeatedly shapes posture, language, and modes of response, while teachers and students gradually become numb within repeated procedures, assessments, and performances. The figures in the photographs are often paused, staring, or absorbed by their surroundings. They appear like individuals planted into the structure of the university, belonging to it while also maintaining a subtle distance from it.

The series does not attempt to represent a single event directly. Instead, through continuous photographing, it records details inside the university education system that are difficult to narrate formally: seemingly accidental rules, repeated rituals, failed communication, packaged achievements, and the hidden but stable logic of interests behind various absurd phenomena. Here, the university is no longer only a place for knowledge production and intellectual training. It becomes a complex social sample where power, performance, obedience, desire, and survival strategies intersect. Planting Plan uses a calm photographic approach to show how people are shaped, adapted, and consumed within this environment, and how they may still preserve their own perception in its gaps.

Images / 图像

18 images