Nightwalk: Pourquoi?
Nightwalk: Pourquoi?
in TPAM Fringe, 'If On A Winter's Night An Employee'
in TPAM Fringe, 'If On A Winter's Night An Employee'
at Wakabacho Wharf, Yokohama, Japan.
2018
2018
CONCEPT/ SOUND Tao Chiang
INSTALLATIONS/ OBJECTS Kappa Tseng
TEXT Grass Wang & Tao Chiang
INSTALLATIONS/ OBJECTS Kappa Tseng
TEXT Grass Wang & Tao Chiang
ORGANIZER National Culture and Arts Foundation- ARTWAVE
CURATOR River Lin
PHOTOGRAPH Ash Lin & Kappa Tseng
The artist duo consisting of sound designer
Tao Chiang and object theatre artist Yenting Tseng create intimate performance
pieces combining shadowplay, found objects, and ambient soundscapes. Their
latest work, Nightwalk: Pourquoi? investigates
the inner landscape of an urban-dweller walking home at night, with newly
written text by playwright Grass Wang.
Nightwalk:
Pourquoi? is a piece of sound and shadow theater
that uses a soundwalk recording as its basic material and structure. The
recording of the environmental sounds of a stroll through an urban landscape at
nighttime sounds realistic at first, but gradually becomes manipulated and
distorted, overlaid with other synthetic sounds and spoken word, as we delve into
the subjective mind of the Walker, the worries, regrets, and dreams of day to
day life.
The audience is situated in the middle of a
surround-sound system, listening to the thoughts of the Walker and the passing soundscape.
Shadows projected from revolving installations and seemingly random objects
emerge throughout the space. Familiar images merge and transform into a
stream-of-consciousness, as the Walker reflects on the events of this day and
the days to come.
