This experimental theater piece is based on my site-specific installation created during a residency in Zhujiajiao, Shanghai, in March 2025. It explores the relationship between language, bodily desire (eating), and physical transformation. This time, I aim to deconstruct and expand my practice by collaborating with performers to experiment with theater.
I invited participants to wear white clothing and projected my imagery onto their bodies as they moved through the theater space I had arranged. Each participant was equipped with a playback device broadcasting my written text, with the spoken words serving as guiding instructions to collectively construct an improvised performance theater.
Participants were free to respond to the text in any way they wished—whether by complying, opposing, ignoring, or reacting in any other manner. I invited the performers/participants to collaborate through improvised actions, exploring the relationship between body and language.
*Step 0: You are invited to interact with any props in the space as you like—use them in your preferred way or leave any traces behind.
*Step 1: You are invited to wear a phone holder and record the entire experience with your body. Please share the footage in the group afterward—the perspective captured by your body’s position will become part of the work.
*Step 2: You are invited to wear (enter) a white robe—that is, "enter the belly." From this moment, the boundaries between language, body, and eating become blurred…
*Step 3: When you are ready, put on the headphones (press the switch → press to play the next track) and follow the sound into the space, wandering through this vast abdominal cavity…
This is a self-centered realm—the surrounding world and other people melt away. Apart from you and the language in your ears, everyone and everything else become external…
You may respond to the "language" you hear, see, and feel in any way you wish—comply? oppose? ignore? or anything else…
…Are you still yourself now? Or have you become part of the text…?
I invited participants to wear white clothing and projected my imagery onto their bodies as they moved through the theater space I had arranged. Each participant was equipped with a playback device broadcasting my written text, with the spoken words serving as guiding instructions to collectively construct an improvised performance theater.
Participants were free to respond to the text in any way they wished—whether by complying, opposing, ignoring, or reacting in any other manner. I invited the performers/participants to collaborate through improvised actions, exploring the relationship between body and language.
*Step 0: You are invited to interact with any props in the space as you like—use them in your preferred way or leave any traces behind.
*Step 1: You are invited to wear a phone holder and record the entire experience with your body. Please share the footage in the group afterward—the perspective captured by your body’s position will become part of the work.
*Step 2: You are invited to wear (enter) a white robe—that is, "enter the belly." From this moment, the boundaries between language, body, and eating become blurred…
*Step 3: When you are ready, put on the headphones (press the switch → press to play the next track) and follow the sound into the space, wandering through this vast abdominal cavity…
This is a self-centered realm—the surrounding world and other people melt away. Apart from you and the language in your ears, everyone and everything else become external…
You may respond to the "language" you hear, see, and feel in any way you wish—comply? oppose? ignore? or anything else…
…Are you still yourself now? Or have you become part of the text…?