Qingdao
--A Messy Archive

Mannheim, Germany

Created byJunges Nationaltheater Mannheim
Showtime: Oct. 1st, 2020 at 9am (EDT) / 3pm (CET)

A novel theatre experience will be generated, using contemporary technology, and this will facilitate a variety of perspectives on Germany’s colonial past in China.

Mass Connectedness

New York, US

Created by Nuntinee Tansrisakul and Yuguang Zhang
Showtime: Oct. 1th, 2020 at 8am (EDT) & Oct. 2nd, 2020 at 8.30pm (EDT)
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‘Mass Connectedness’ is one of the four-part series, ‘Online Live Performance’(OLP), an ongoing research created in response to Covid-19. The other parts include Online Identity, Fragmentation, and Machine Intervention. In OLP, we ask ourselves what it means for live performances to be online - What do we gain or lose? How do we connect and be in the ‘same-time’? How do we sense each other?The nature of human connection has been offbeat and unique in the past few months. While the physicality and materiality of our presence are streamlined into flat screens and 2-channel audio, the scale and pace of communication and timespent consuming media have never been higher and more rapid. Browser windows have become our literal windows into the world. But, what has our connection to others become? Are we just one of the millions of people online? How do we individualistically be part of a crowd and not get lost? And, how do we stimulate and heighten the sense of connection?

ATLAS (Live)

New York, US

Created by Alexander Si
Showtime: Oct. 1st, 2020 at 12pm (EDT)
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The word “Atlas” has two meanings, one is a map, the other is the Greek mythical figure that was punished to carry the weight of the world on his shoulder. I see us modern-day spectators also bearing the weight of our hardwired imagination, an extensive mind map informed by our daily media diet. This highly processed, easily digestible information, mediated by technology, gives us the means to freely project our own identity onto a slew of indexes and icons. Atlas gives form to this fetishistic love-hate relationship we each have with mass media.

MUA

Detroit, USA

Created by Margaret Hull
Showtime: Oct. 2nd, 2020 at 7:30pm (EDT)
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MUA is a performance series that explores the relationship between consumer and beauty agent, mediated by the screen of a phone or computer. In this live-streamed event, a makeup artist directs a subject in the application of her own makeup. A clothing stylist then advises the subject on garments to accompany a blouse, which is the focal point of the frame. Lastly, a photographer directs the subject in documenting her own image using the built-in camera on her device. The exchanges between each hired technician/artist and the subject address the labor of all parties involved, without the benefit of human touch.

Imaginarium

Boston, MA/London, UK/Wuhan, China

Directed by Haylin Cai Performed by Harry Dean
Sound designed by Tingying Dong
US producer: Alison Yueming Qu
UK producer: Lizzie Benbow
Showtime:Oct. 3rd, 2020 at 8:00pm (EDT)

A daring new audio immersive experience, taking you on a new and cathartic journey, all from the comfort of your own home.

FRB

Berlin,Germany

Created by Pitch Shifting
Showtime: Sept. 18th, 2020 at 4pm (EDT)
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This is a of a larger multidisciplinary project - Pitch Shifting Group. Visual programming, while musical interactivity, has been crucial to Pitch Shifting latest practice. Leaded by a Berlin based saxophonist and composer Grgur Savic, group explores a different types of today’s technology together with live electro-acoustic instruments to deliver high quality musivisual language. Although this group started performing pure electro- acoustic improvised sets, new journey begins with a new member, visual artist Sanja Star. Group sets itself into the new dimension creating improvised audio- visual set.

Electo Electro 2020

New Jersey, US

Created by Mike Richison
Showtime: Sept. 18th, 2020 at 8:30pm (EDT)
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Electo Electro 2020 is an interactive installation combining audience participation, music, news footage, and politics. It consists of Diebold Accuvote voting booths, iMacs, iPads, and small speakers. A custom Max MSP Jitter patch makes it possible for participants to remix videos from political rallies, debates, and news in a structured sixteen beat loop. The video clips sample parts of words in order to build percussion tracks, resulting in a breakdown of language.
This piece can exist as both an interactive installation and a performance.

Flight

Brooklyn, US

Created by Anonymous Ensemble
Showtime: Sept. 19th, 2020 at 10am (EDT)
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With Flight, Anonymous Ensemble creates a new form of theatrical space that is live, interactive, and global in scope. Flight brings together performers and audiences in real space and from anywhere in the world with internet access in order to investigate expansive global issues and tiny revelatory moments in real time. Within a stylized visual and narrative framework, we visit people around the world, in their own homes, with their own worldviews and their own words. Carefully blending reality and fiction, Flight creates an experience that is both engaging and transformative. Flight is a performance, a community event, and a conversation.

Tacoma Lakes

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Created by Gordon H. Williams
Showtime: Sept. 20th,2020 at 3pm (EDT)
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Tacoma Lakes is a work from a six-part series on the connection between memory and place. Each work in this series begins as an open musical score, based in improvisation and graphic notation. Tacoma Lakes in performance calls for participants to assist in creating an immersive soundscape through the use of water sounds. The video version of this work comes from a documented performance, combined with complementary text and graphics from the score.

It Will Be for the Stranger, the Fatherless, and the Widow

Riverside, US

Created by Rebekah JoAnn Guerra
Showtime: Sept. 25th,2020 at 7:30pm (EDT)
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“I am committed to provoking social narratives that makeup Black and Jewish experiences and how the duality of misunderstanding exceeds them both. To capture the labor, love, and tragedy that lies in between every effort to prove that I and my people are more than “Other” and more than “Minor”. The truth is always what I am seeking and creating space for, I am afraid if I don’t the “other” side of the narrative might vanish. My people’s stories are valid, deserving, and triumphant.”

--Rebekah JoAnn Guerra

In America, Why Leaves Are Green

New York, US/ Macau, China

Created by Silkworm pupas(Jinjin Xu and Jiaoyang Li)
Showtime: Sept. 25th, 2020 at 8:30pm (EDT)
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The tension between the US and China has never been as severe as now. The whole world stays in an unpredictable and unstable turbulence. As Chinese new immigrants in America, the dilemma of our political identities haunts us every day. How can we honestly express ourselves? What is honesty? What is the truth? Is there only left and right in ideology? What if both of them are betrayal to our heart? With the mythology of Silk Horse, we use Frame VR to create a virtual space for the audience to experience our visual poem. We also perform with our cyborg figures live in the virtual space.

1422 1829 1702

Columbia, US

Created by Katina Bitsicas
Showtime: Sept. 27th, 2020 at 10am (EDT)
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1422 1829 1702 is a performative video that explores the memories associated with physical locations of my past, present, and future. More specifically, I am utilizing feet (both figuratively and literally) as a unit of measurement to navigate through my grandmother's, my mother's, and then my own home. Every carpet, rug, wood panel, tile, and floor covering is meticulously measured, as I pace each inch with my feet. As I walk these homes, the floor plans become permanently ingrained in my memory, inch by inch, solidifying the connection between my family and me, no matter the distance. Each home segment can be seen as a parallel world to where I currently am and reminds me that my past and present will always be a part of me heading into the future.