《成为石头之前》是一件结合参与式行为、实时数据与生成影像的沉浸式装置作品。作品发生于一个完全黑暗的展览空间。参与者独自进入黑色房间，在没有明确时间与空间参照的环境中，自由选择站立、坐下或躺下，并保持五分钟的静止，让身体体验成为石头的感觉。

隐藏于空间中的感知系统捕捉身体的微小运动与环境变化，并将这些无法被直接看见的身体数据转化为影像与光线的变化。参与者的五分钟静止并不会随着行为结束而消失，而会以一道微弱的光作为痕迹沉积于作品之中，以此循环往复。

随着越来越多的人进入，个体短暂的身体时间不断累积，逐渐形成一份由无数身体共同构成的“地质记忆”。在这里，人的五分钟被赋予一种类似地质时间的尺度。身体在短暂的静止之后，以一种不可辨认的痕迹继续存在。

Before Becoming A Stone: A Geological Memory of Bodies
 is an immersive installation combining participatory performance, real-time data, and generative moving image. The work takes place within a completely dark space, where each participant enters alone, without clear references to time or spatial boundaries. They are invited to choose their own position, either standing, sitting, or lying down, and remain still for five minutes, allowing the body to experience, however briefly, what it might mean to exist like stone. 

Hidden sensory systems captures subtle bodily movements and changes within the surrounding environment, translating these imperceptible traces into shifts of light and moving image. The participant’s five minutes of stillness does not disappear when the action ends. Instead, it leaves behind a faint trace of light, which becomes part of the work and remains as the cycle continues. 

As more bodies enter the space, these brief moments of stillness accumulate. Individual fragments of bodily time gradually form a collective “geological memory”: a record created through the act of remaining still. Here, five minutes of human time is given the scale and weight of geological time. After the body has left, it continues to exist within the work as an anonymous trace: a layer of time deposited into darkness, slowly becoming part of something larger than itself. 

作为音乐节现场的入口装置，《成为石头之前》被重新转化为一场关于“参与”的地质实验。观众进入音乐节时获得的入场信息与现场行为数据，转化成为实时数字，并在影像形变的过程中直接显现于屏幕。每一个数字既代表个体的进入与参与，也逐渐汇聚为一层集体生成的“文明地质”，记录人与人、身体与场域之间不断形成的关系。

Adapted as an entry installation for the music festival, Before Becoming Stone transforms participation into a geological experiment. Audience entry and ranking data are translated into real-time digits, appearing directly on screen as the image morph and transform. Each number marks an individual act of participation, gradually accumulating into a collective “geological layer of civilization” that records the evolving relationships between bodies, people, and place.