This performance considers wars and genders, portraying a couple of women in different time frames. It applies movement, music and visual art, which presents not women-centric or hostile of men. Instead, it’s about the human nature and the multi-roles at play in any warriors’ life. Where and how is the present-day battlefield? Through delving one woman’s dilemma and uncovers another victimized lady, it also attempts to speak for whom have been rendered at disposal violently in the civilized society, no matter they are men or women.
The Her/History of Collaboration
Hope Chiang is a Taiwanese theatre director who relocated her creative work and life to Macao at the end of 2003. Ever since, she has been traveling between Taipei, Hong Kong and Macao and collaborating with artists overseas. Ewam Lin , Suet Ying Lee and Hope share the concerns for social and human right issues and hence they bring forth this crossover collaboration.
The outcome from the initial phase was the experimental performance “Guns and Flowers” , debuted in Dulan, Taitung, Taiwan in January 2017. It was then performed in the Ox Warehouse, Macau in April. These interdisciplinary theatre were organized in order to broaden citizens’ participation and interests for further discussion on war, gender and freedon.
What audiences would perceive consists of two parts: the performance “Guns and Flowers” and the exhibitions of Ewam Lin and Suet Ying Lee.
The outcome from the initial phase was the experimental performance “Guns and Flowers” , debuted in Dulan, Taitung, Taiwan in January 2017. It was then performed in the Ox Warehouse, Macau in April. These interdisciplinary theatre were organized in order to broaden citizens’ participation and interests for further discussion on war, gender and freedon.
What audiences would perceive consists of two parts: the performance “Guns and Flowers” and the exhibitions of Ewam Lin and Suet Ying Lee.
Performance “Guns and Flowers”
What wars terminate are both physical bodies and women’s love and dreams!
Teens who are not yet 18 years old, having not reached their maturity, become warriors in oversized military uniforms defending for their country. An age that would still hold stuffed dolls and yet they hold AK-47 on their shoulders… And love, what does it look like for people who have escaped death in battlefields?
Teens who are not yet 18 years old, having not reached their maturity, become warriors in oversized military uniforms defending for their country. An age that would still hold stuffed dolls and yet they hold AK-47 on their shoulders… And love, what does it look like for people who have escaped death in battlefields?
Ewam Lin's Exhibition:The Prison
This collection of sketches comprises Ewam Lin's first-person perspective, over a period of 20 years, of what really happens behind prison bars. His sketches and drawings evoke profound reflections on the the nature of human rights, and earnest expectations towards judicial reforms in Taiwan.
Thematically, the exhibition is divided into two parts: Black and White. Black The work in this document the events occurring in contemporary prisons in the name of corrections. They reveal the notions of: crime and punishment, mutual support and conflicts, sorrow and memory, and agony and struggle in prison today. These powerful drawings brings to the fore the harsh reality, behind bars, that most people would never get to see. White This section explores primarily the sufferings of specific political victims during the tearlier period of "White Terror", which lasted longer than 40 years. The drawings herein uncover the buried voices of these victims, and make their hushed-up history visible again. |
Suet Ying Lee's Exhibition: Where Are You?
According to Chinese-American geographer Yi-fu Tuan mentioned in the book of Escapism, people look for stability, and the material environment that signifies stability, we are naturally drawn to familiar things in familiar places that we build bonds with. People escape from raw and threatening nature into the refinements of culture. The culture evolves to create civilization, helps nurturing one’s sense of belonging toward the place, even the stability of civilization is falling apart, they will still fight for the best to defend and maintain it, till the fire of hope died out.
Through the installation works, video imageries and reoccurring process, the places at different time are linked up, the surrounding influences our sense of bodily existence. To reimagine the homeland, the place we are living in. 'Our body tied by the sense to the environment, is place; our mind freed from such sensory ties, is space.‘ Tuan Yi-fu, Space, Place, and Nature: The Farewell Lecture |