Au Sow Yee X Chen Yow-Ruu (Her Lab Space)
special appearance Chou Chia-Kuan (2025) | special appearance Chou Chia-Kuan. Martin Hsieh (2026)
In our inaugural dawn
In the pageantry of conferring names
When the legions streamed Past the dais,
All animals, like parades, paired together.
You headed the pageantry
Without a mate.
All felt whole, contented,
Marching in uniform stride.
You led them alone
Like the horn in the middle of your head.
Tawfiq Sayigh
بضعة أسئلة لأطرحها على الكركدن A Few Questions I Pose to the Unicorn
بضعة أسئلة لأطرحها على الكركدن A Few Questions I Pose to the Unicorn
On 27th May 2019, almost every major news media covered the story on the death of the last male rhinoceros in Malaysia. Tam, the rhino is from a Sumatran origin. Sumatra now is part of Indonesia and was once under the governance of VOC, the Dutch East India Company. The news predicted the extinction of rhinoceros in Malaysia for there will be only one female rhinoceros left. The 17th century VOC’s mercenary Captain Ripon cited in his diary a “unicorn” up on Taiwan’s mountain. In the early 20th century, descendant of Japan Tokugawa family Tokugawa Yoshichika wrote about animals hunted during a hunting trip in a letter to Sultan Ibrahim of Johor.
Once Upon a Unicorn attempts to open up dialectical imagination of the ocean, sound measuring, image seance, power structuring, intermingling time and space through folk stories of the “unicorn” and trips on the ocean. This is a performance integrating exchanging languages, the misunderstanding and interpretation of sound and image, leading to a journey or reversible image movement that is visible, invisible, audible and inaudible. Like The Arabian Night, Once Upon a Unicorn is a story from a long long time ago, but affecting multiple lives.
Production Team (2026) |
Concept / Text / Performer: Au Sow Yee
Director / Performer: Chen Yow-Ruu
Special Appearance: Chou Chia Kuan, Martin Hsieh
Acoustic Design: Feng Chih Ming
Acoustic Design Assistant: Chen Yi Cing
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人的語言與動物的聲音：「眾聲喧嘩——講述表演集」李立中與區秀詒的🕊️🦄🎪🍅🧭