“Making some arrows overnight,” tells the story about the collapse of a tribe in the pre-historical period. The sound of making the arrows in the video and the monologue suggest a series of urgent circumstances. The narrator, or a witness of this calamity receded to the caves of their ancestors from the river, as their weapons were exhausted, the narrator and his tribal members, trapped in the caves, were hesitant, apprehensive and felt an imminent doom. At the same time, they had to make more weapons and store them. They were left with no choice but to urgently practice the methods of weaponry and prepare for the moment of destruction.

“连夜,打制一些箭镞出来”，讲述了发生在史前的一场部落灾难。影像中打制箭镞的声音与独白指向了一连串紧张的局面。自述的人或是这场灭顶之殇亲历者，他们从河岸退返到祖先的洞穴，在武器耗尽的战争间隙，困在洞穴里的独白者和族人迟疑、惶惑，深感时日将尽。与此同时，他们又不得不制作和储备武器，紧张的温习着打制方法，准备那一摧崩时刻的来临。

B. 1986 in Xi’an. Currently works and lives in Beijing. Yan Zhou has held his personal projects Where to Begin? : Yan Zhou in OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, 2017. Other recent exhibitions include Mocube Yan Zhou: Coping mechanism, Beijing, 2019; Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum The Lonely Spirit, Beijing, 2018； OCAT Xi’an Mapping the City: A Vision of History and Xi’an, Xi’an, 2018; OCAT Anren New Video in China: New Attitude Since 2010, Anren, 2018.