At the installation, while observing the birds’ activities on screen, the audience can see their own shadows cast. And soon another shadow appears, of them from six seconds earlier. With the delayed image the audience has a rare chance to observe themselves and interact in real time. Alongside the events happening on the large video screen, the audience can also participate with the birds in a different form – through co-creation with improvisational playback theatre.
Simultaneously, a live streaming camera is recording all the activity and the environment around the installation and broadcasting the image via a live streaming platform to other audiences watching online, an unknown distance away.
The audiences experience the physical and virtual, natural and artificial worlds beyond time and distance in various ways, and are positioned at different degrees of seeing and being seen.
This project aims to create a direct human connection to the simplicity, power and rhythms of nature, through progressively deepening engagement in continually re-thinking our place and role on this planet. Perhaps, too, it is an expression of our human drive to seek a connection with nature.
Further, through the co-creation with improvisational playback theatre performance, it encourages us to reflect further on our lives and to find the intrinsically fundamental link between ourselves and the natural world through sharing our life stories and watching those stories being re-enacted on stage in ‘real time’.
＊This is an on-going project. Please stay tuned on Facebook.
Locations
HsinChu City Zoo, Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan, 2017
Central Saint Martins College of Design, London, UK, 2016
Debut
2016Project Team
Lucas Chih-Peng KAO, CinematographerKai-Shin LIU, Graphic Designer
True Heart Theatre
Ovation System Ltd., Screen Installation Device Supplier and Consultancy
Julie Howell, English Culture Consultancy
The Seven Plays Theatre,Theatrical Consultancy
Te-Ju CHEN, Theoretical Consultancy