哲理装置文化关系政治反思
2009 第53届威尼斯双年展中国馆作品
木20米x30米x80cm
多米诺效应的物理道理是：每张牌倒下的时候，具有的动能都比前一块牌大，因此如果它们的大小一致，速度将一个比一个快，也就是说，它们依次推倒的能量一个比一个大。而如果他们的大小不一样，那么一张骨牌倒下时能推倒一张1.5倍体积的骨牌。
根据这个原理，物理学家A.怀特海德曾经制作了一组骨牌,共13张,第一张最小。长9.53mm,宽4.76mm,厚1.19mm,还不如小手指甲大.以后每张体积扩大1.5倍, 最大的第13张长61mm,宽30.5mm,厚7.6mm, 第13张骨牌倒下时释放的能量比第一张牌倒下时整整要扩大20多亿倍。依次类推下去，假如出现第32张骨牌，将能够推倒帝国大厦那么大的建筑物。
在这个装置中，很多个木质的骨牌在威尼斯中国展馆处女花园的户外草坪上，摆设成一个巨大的树木的图形，
靠近树根的部分最大，达到一米高，半米宽，20公分厚。越靠近“树梢”的部分的木质骨牌逐渐变小。最小的为火柴盒大小。
树木的年轮纹理出现在骨牌表面上，年轮的中心也就是骨牌立面的中心。这样，排在地面上的所有的骨牌也就是一棵真正的树的多个截面。
“大树”图形的大小可以根据现场调整。“大树”图形的分叉和走向可以根据草坪上其他作品的位置进行调整。
小骨牌推倒比它自身稍大的骨牌，骨牌依次倒下，最后推倒了最靠树根处的大块的骨牌
The small knocking down the big.
Wood. Dimension: 20 m x 30 m x 80 cm
The physical principle of the Domino effect is that when one block falls, its thrust forward is greater than that of the earlier block. As a result, if the blocks are identical in size, their speed will accelerate. In other words, the force of the forward push will increase. However, if the pieces vary in size, then one block, on falling, may knock down another block that is 1.5 times the size of the previous one.
In accordance with this principle, the physicist Alfred North Whitehead once made a group of dominoes, 13 blocks in all, with the first being the smallest, which is no bigger than the little fingernail (8.95mm long, 4.76mm wide and 1.19mm thick). Other blocks are 1.5 times in size than the earlier ones, with the biggest being 61mm long, 30.5mm wide and 7.6mm thick. The energy the 13th domino releases is 2 billion times that of the first one. Theoretically, if the series of dominoes are continuously made, then the 32nd block, on falling, will be able to push down a building the size of the Empire State Building.
In this installation, many wooden dominoes are planted on the lawn of the Virgin Garden at the Chinese Pavilion, constituting a gigantic image of a tree.
The one that is close to the root of the tree is the biggest and is one meter tall, 50 cm wide and 20 cm thick. The closer they are to the “branch”, the smaller the dominoes they are. The smallest piece is about the size of a matchbox.
The growth ring of the wood is shown on the surface of the dominoes and the center of the growth ring is the center of the vertical side of the block. Thus, all the dominoes on the ground form multiple sections of a bona fide tree.
The size of the “big tree” can be adjusted on location. The branching out of the images and their directions can be adjusted in accordance with the objects on the lawn.
At the opening, audiences will be invited to participate in pushing down the dominoes at the end of the “tree branch”. The small dominoes knock down the slightly larger one and, in succession, they fall, until the biggest block closest to the tree root falls down.