Interactive Game Total Run Time : 20 minutes Software: Twine
In a future world devastated by climate change, New York City is sinking due to rising waters and towering skyscrapers. The Climate Research Center on Governors Island can't stop the disaster, leaving residents fighting for survival. The city crumbles, wealth disparity widens, Indo-Pacific war starts, the tenth variant of COVID-19 spreads, and Chinatown is gentrified. Amidst the chaos, the dreamer (the player) navigates between the past and possible near futures, respectively, to uncover a hidden truth with the potential to save New York.
The players will go through three different chapters in this mini game: “1643”, “2027”, and “2099”. In “1643”, the player experiences the Pavonia Massacre that happened between the Lenape people and the Dutch West India Company. “2027” centers around the Indo-Pacific tension that was manipulated by the ambitious China, which causes Asian refugee floods into the U.S. and Canada. In "2099," the player assumes the role of a blue-collar character who must traverse the sinking Manhattan to reach the Climate Change Center on Governors Island for work. During his journey, he encounters an elder who reveals the key to accessing a Utopian world.
“Ghosts, lingering in between the universe, are not the wandering spirits of the deceased, but the incessant obsession of the living.” 「凡天地之間有鬼,非人死精神為之也。皆人思念存想之所致也。」
Photo by Qiong Wang & Chia-Hsien Lin; Edit by Chen-Yi Wu
"Where Are You Today?" is an immersive performance aimed at visualizing the feeling of overseas Taiwanese’s displacement in a foreign land. Joining improvised movement, video projection, text, and alluring soundscape, the piece conveys the discomfort and alienation of outsiders. The piece presents three Taiwaneses artist’s yearning for their native land. The idea is based on performers' self-identity under the unstable time of the pandemic. For the outlanders, summoning the images and sounds of home has become a latter-day necromancy. We sit in a circle. We turn on the monitor and speakers. We type and whisper in a language that people might not understand. Technology enables us to cross multiple dimensions to reach out to the loved ones we long to see, and listen to the voices we are eager to hear. The home in our memory remains standing in yesterday, in today, and in forever, but it’s unattainable. Are we missed by the people we miss? Regarding this necromancy, when the sight of the present meets the eyes of the deceased, or when the moment is submerged as a footnote of the past, where exactly are we? 沈浸式表演《有鬼》旨在視覺化台灣人身處異鄉的流離失所感。結合了即興的動作、影像、文字展演和聲音設計,《有鬼》展現疫情時期三位台灣藝術家旅居海外的不適與疏離,對故土的嚮往,以及台灣人的身份認同。對遊子而言,召喚家的影像與聲音成為一種必須的現代降靈術。我們圍坐著,開啟螢幕與音響,敲打鍵盤或耳語外人聽不懂的字詞;我們藉著科技穿越宇宙維度看見所思之人,聽見所念之物;記憶中的家,是昨天的,是今天的,是永遠存在的,但也是回不去的。我所思念的,是否也正思念著我?在這場現代降靈術中,當在場的與已逝去的四目交接,當此刻被淹沒成過去的註腳,我們又該如何自我安置?
Technical Team/ Chia-Hsien Lin Matthew Shackelford
Professional Support/ Thomas Gordon Gale Thacker Sen-Sen Chiu Lynn Chang Qiong Wang Matt Nelson - September 23-25, 2022 - Art in Odd Places: Story, New York City June 11, 2022 - Gene Frankel Theatre, New York City June 19, 2022 - Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
Monologue in Outer Space (2017)
Artists:Rabbit At The Right Side Troupe
“愛情並非一旦愛上就彼此互為永不枯竭的菟絲女蘿,愛情其實會衰老,並且有著「成—住—壞—空」的週期性。在每一次的三人兩椅大風吹遊戲中,正宮和小三輪流起身,從位置上滑落,而看似是最大贏家、永遠有位置可坐的「第二者」,其實也會有椅子拖行的軌跡與擦痕。” Love is often idealized as an eternal flame, but in reality, it can grow old and experience a cyclic pattern of formation, stability, decline, and emptiness. In the game of musical chairs played by three people and two chairs, the two women take turns getting up and slipping from their seats. Even the man -- the so-called "winner" -- who seem to have been benefited from the game, has marks and scratches on his chair from being dragged around. In love, there are no guaranteed champions, and everyone experiences ups and downs.
Curatorial Team: Arts Administration Internship Program 藝術行政人才培育計畫
Being curious about art administration with passion for arts, six interns in Taipei Artists Village, with different academic backgrounds, gather as the curatorial team Monologue in Outer Space in 2016.
Arts Administration Internship Program is a highly discussed topic in the arts and culture industry in recent years. Since 2017, it has been designed to train college students who are interested in entering the arts industry to become professional art administrators. Taipei International Artist Village provides young students with an opportunity to connect "learning and application gaps". Through this program, interns will practice problem-solving skills during practical training and propose solutions to their internship supervisors. They will receive training in a step-by-step process until they become fully trained art administrators.
策展團隊 Curatorial Team / 吳貞儀 Chen-Yi WU 張子威 Walter ZHANG 尤美瑜 Yuri YU 江庭瑄 Ting-Hsuan CHIANG 余歡倫 Huan-Lun YU 楊婷雁 Ting-Yeng YANG