We exploited the participation in everything.
For example, 100 yuan had been able to buy 7 hours of a manual laborer's project time, but only 5 minutes of a senior manager's time. During this time, the project's sole requirement had been for participants to return to their own lives and sign a bilateral contract based on the project's conditions. This project had addressed the concepts of contract and work.
The entire concept of work had encompassed two contradictory aspects: exploitation and participation. Through salary and employment, life had been stripped from the body, no longer attached to anything. No one had ever paid for our lives. Sometimes I had wondered, why not employ people to return to their lives? To let those who were happy, sad, bored, desperate, excited, indifferent, hopeful, or impulsive return to their lives, even if just for a few minutes.
The project had been permanently acquired by the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art.