Public anxiety behind wearing a gas mask wedding photograph

At 15:40 on the 25th, on the northeast corner of the Beijing International Trade Bridge, a pair of couples took wedding masks with their gas masks. This kind of alternative commemorative idea caused many passersby's curiosity. Soon after the filming, the photographer and the two people immediately got into the car and left. (from Weibo)

Beijing's hazy days have continued for more than 100 hours. The orange warning signal has also been issued for a long time. People have lived in this dense fog for almost a week. During this week, we fully felt the deterioration of the modern environment and brought people to life and psychological panic: the air purifiers in the supermarket are out of stock, the respiratory patients in the hospital are multiplying, and a few primary and secondary schools are suspended from classes. With a variety of masks hurry to walk on the street ...

The capital has become a fog, and it is heavily recaptured to the capital. No one can escape the heavy pollution. Working and living in such an environment, I believe that everyone's heart has an indescribable anxiety and helplessness. In the end, where does the haze come from and how can it be in such a short period of time that this haunts the nature of modern cities? After the “serious illness” of environmental deterioration has been eliminated, and after the haze has passed, in the near future, after 35 years and more than 10 years, there will be serious “sequelae”. These questions and concerns have not been resolved so far. The answer, what we can see and hear, is to reduce the number of private cars and contribute to the reduction of the capital...

On the one hand, there is a heavy pressure on the capital, while on the other, the government departments do not have clear explanations and plans for removing the evil. The final result of this reality's persecution and information asymmetry is that most people are gradually becoming paralyzed and are no longer concerned about this topic. Even anxiety has gradually subsided, and there is also a situation in which a few people are dissatisfied with this situation. They must use their own alternative expressions to arouse the attention of the government and the public to the management of haze and the protection of the environment, such as this in the news. For the newcomers, they use a gas mask to take a wedding photo to express their attitude toward hazy days. At the same time, they express themselves as an ordinary citizen, a member of this society, and they have an attitude toward government departments' efforts to protect environmental work.

Of course, this somewhat avant-garde and avant-garde expression of behavioral art is not worth promoting, but in the end it is also a way of expressing opinions. We can not applaud, but their expression is also in line with our modern anxiety about the deterioration of the environment. And oppression, and when such anxieties do not have proper outlets for venting, a handful of avant-garde artistic behaviors can rather relieve us of concerns about environmental degradation and complaints.

Continuous heavy weather has forced our government policy makers to think more deeply about the dialectical relationship between development and sustainable development, and to examine more rationally the relationship between social development and the harmony of the natural environment, and to change the mode of development and respect the natural environment. Even that we must “have to” bow down to nature, because the continuous heavy weather has clearly told us that in front of nature, any human so-called challenge to nature, conquering nature seems so ridiculous and stupid. In fact, we The greatest lack of nature is awe.

We can use gas masks and bridal gowns to reflect the anxieties of an ethnic group on the deterioration of the environment. However, we also need to take responsibility and responsibility for the task of saving the natural environment. At this point, everyone is not composed of gas masks and wedding gowns. Performers of performance art are participants.

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