We thought about Pierre Manzoni’s Socle du Monde: the way a simple reversal of an object could change the entire orientation of the world. We asked, what does it mean to turn yourself upside down? Does it suggest a revolution? When you stand on your head, momentarily overcoming gravity, your whole perspective of the world transforms. For a second, it’s not you who is upside-down – it is the world that is reversed. Suddenly, the materiality of the earth becomes palpable. Instead of walking on a surface, you realise that you’re hanging from, or stuck to, a huge amount of matter. All at once feeling weightless and also feeling the powerful pull of gravity.

When Hao went to China, we did handstands simultaneously in Melbourne and Beijing. The Beijing Olympics were on at the time, opening with vast displays of synchronised movement, aimed at showing the power of China to the world. We thought, instead, about a huge rock between the hands of two tiny humans. A simple event, which connected two geographical locations in time: a conversation through action.