Reserve the Building : Cloud Gate Theatre
C. Object Museum
Imagine a place where anything about puppetry could happen. Join us to create the dream place for every puppeteer, a symbiosis space for human beings and objects by any definition.
Tips: Enjoy the whole building in the selected time period.
This area includes 10 programs themed with "objects" that are displayed in various forms such as performing art, performance art, installation and exhibition.
@Cloud Gate Theater
Oct.22 sat. 10:30.14:30.18:30
Oct.23 sun. 10:30.14:30
price tickets are NT.1200 each.
Performance
Video Call Practise
►[TW/JP] Lin Zi-Heng, Wu I-Ting, Chiu Chui-Lung
►Video ►Mandarin
►20mins ►20 persons
►Oct.22 sat.
◆11:00,12:00,13:00
◆15:00,16:00,17:00
◆19:00,20:00,21:00
►Oct.23 sun.
◆11:00,12:00,13:00
◆15:00,16:00,17:00
"How do we believe that through the lens, the image displayed on the screen is real and convincing? Do we believe it because the image on the screen is the reflection of our own emotion?"
Video call practice tries to apply director Coppola's Live Cinema concept and method to further explore more possibilities of how Live Cinema could be achieved.
The play begins with an oversea video call.
Lin Zi-Heng, Wu I-Ting, Chiu Chui-Lung met during the making of Chiu's directorial film The Brighter Day in 2013. Later in 2018, the three participated Close to You Festival with their theatre play 年越し蕎麦, which portraits the ambiguous scene of romance and reality in a Japanese bar in Linsen area. Their latest production Video call practice explores the reality and confusion intertwined by cinema, theatre and images.
www.mittsukomebunka.com
The Unknown
►Tien Tan
►Solo & Lecture & Participatory ►Mandarin
►30mins ►25 persons
►Oct.22 sat.
◆11:00,12:00,13:00
◆15:00,16:00,17:00
◆19:00,20:00,21:00
►Oct.23 sun.
◆11:00,12:00,13:00
◆15:00,16:00,17:00
A person who seems to have lost everything lives in a place he doesn’t recognize. He doesn’t know where he came from or what else he has. He can only discover who he is and what it is all about through collecting things around him.。
Tien Tan
Born in 1984, based Taipei, Taiwan. L'École Internationale Théâtre de Jacques Lecoq (2013-2015). Freelance performer and lecturer in the Department of Drama, National Taiwan University of the Arts. In 2016, founded M.O.I. Production, which explores the form of performance in non-theatre spaces. Teaching the Jacques Lecoq method, focus on works with the physical theatre, contemporary mime, circus, masks and clowns.
INSTAGRAM：moi_production
The Universe in a box
►David Liu, Alexander Lee
►Video & Object & Live ►Mandarin
►25mins ►30 persons
►Oct.22 sat.
◆10:30,11:40,12:40
◆14:30,15:40,16:40
◆18:30,19:40,20:40
►Oct.23 sun.
◆10:30,11:40,12:40
◆14:30,15:40,16:40
During a space mission, Lu,Da-wei accidentally fell into the gap of space-time. At a glance, this familiar place turned out to be his childhood room. He must find a way to contact the space station in the shortest time, otherwise it will be trapped in the space-time gap forever. Inadvertently, he discovered the box that he treasured when he was a child. After opening the box, he fell into another space-time of memories, and couldn't tell whether it was reality or memories. At the same time, there is a warning sound of unknown information from everywhere….
David Liu
Graduated from National Taiwan University of Arts with a MA degree in Drama, Liu has been trained based on Jacques LeCoq's method. He is a member of Theatre de la Sardine.
Liu currently works as adjunct lecturer at National Taiwan University of Arts, resident teacher at Street Act Lab, member of junior high school art textbook compilation committee, contracted instructor at The Shiner Education Foundation. Additionally, he has been actively performing in theatres, video works, crossover programs and hosting workshops.
FB:David Liu
Alexander Lee
Graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts with a BA in Filmmaking, Lee founded Art Film Associate in 2020, which has been devoted to film education and visualization of stage performance. He believes that image as a medium will be increasingly common in the future and become a communication tool to spread messages, tell stories and create perspectives.
Lnk.Bio:Alexander Lee
Translate Yo-Yo, Father and Son
►Yang Yuan-Ching,Yu Huan-Fu
►Object theater & Circus ►Mandarin
►15mins ►50 persons
►Oct.22 sat.
◆11:30,12:30
◆15:30,16:30
◆19:30,20:30
►Oct.23 sun.
◆11:30,12:30
◆15:30,16:30
A Yo-Yo
A Rope
2 Pairs of Hands
Me and my father
Me and my children
Is it emotional blackmail?
Should I let go and release to freedom?
This program originated from the project Translate Yo-Yo initiated by Yang in 2020, giving the audience a new perspective to look at Yo-Yo by reorganizing the shape, movement, symbol, sound and character of it. Come and see Yang tell the story about a father and a son with Yo-Yo.
Yang Yuan-Ching
A human being who loves playing Yo-Yo.。
2014 Holder of a Guinness World Record for Most Napkins Snatched from A Table with A Yo-Yo in One Minute.
2015 Winner of Long Sleeper Contest in World Yo-Yo Contest.
yoyoyang.tw
Yu Huan-Fu
Yu is an experienced theatre writer, director and music designer with a MA degree in Sociology from Soochow University. His work Tiantai Frog was premiered in 1998. Yu has been working with Sun-Shier Dance Theatre since 2000 and was invited to Korea for crossover performances in 2010. In 2014, he collaborated with Chang Hsiu-Ping on the choreography for Ethics. His directorial and stage design work The Prince from Golden Bough Theatre was nominated by Taishin Arts Award in the same year. PAR Magazine describes his music as “Always involves an unique ambience that brings the dancing piece to another level.
COCOON
►Yu Meng-Ju
►String Puppet ＆ Object ►non verbal
►10mins ►25 persons
►Oct.22 sat.
◆10:30,11:00,12:00,13:00
◆14:30,15:00,16:00,17:00
◆18:30,19:00,20:00,21:00
►Oct.23 sun.
◆10:30,11:00,12:00,13:00
◆14:30,15:00,16:00,17:00
Pinch the shape of the head, add the contour of brow bone. The corner of my mouth raises as I am making a smile on the puppet's face. After a big hard laugh, I often either think this is all fake or she is smiling at me.
Yu Meng-Ju
Easily to start talking to things and get distracted. Love hand-making. Paving the way ahead just like a mole, with poor eyesight, it can only move forward by its sense of touch, of the humidity and smell of the soil.
vimeo：Yu Ruby
Uncle Calder's。Circus
►Lu Chung-Chen, Wang Tung-Hao
►Immersive & Video ►Mandarin
►30mins ►2 persons（Immersive）+30 persons（Watch）
►Oct.22 sat.
◆10:30,11:40,12:40
◆14:30,15:40,16:40
◆18:30,19:40,20:40
►Oct.23 sun.
◆10:30,11:40,12:40
◆14:30,15:40,16:40
Alexander Calder created the theatre piece Circus in 1926 about his experiment and game. He found the relationship between a solo performer and objects through the iron wire toy and the moving mechanism. This program adopts the idea from Calder’s “one-person circus” as its performing form. The audience will be guided to complete an improvised show in a tiny circus with the iron wire objects they make. The theme is about the ongoing war started by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Lu, Chung-Chen
Lu worked as a visual artist based in Taichung when the art industry in Taiwan was still in the early stage in the 90s. Later in 2000, she shifted her focus to academic research with a PhD to be completed. In 2015, she went to Shanghai to work in art education, which she considered as a way of art practice. She has been dedicated to education and fine arts after returning to Taiwan.
Wang, Tung-Hao
Wang works as a freelancer mainly on moving image. With his exceptional communication skill, he is able to portray rich emotion and to bring possibilities and creativity into his works. He is currently exploring images through various subjects and different locations.
意外
►Huang AiAi
►Installation & Live ►Mandarin
►20mins ►30 persons
►Oct.22 sat.
◆10:40,11:40,12:40
◆14:40,15:40,16:40
◆18:40,19:40,20:40
►Oct.23 sun.
◆10:40,11:40,12:40
◆14:40,15:40,16:40
An accident happened - an advertising vehicle crashed with_____. How? Who and where is the driver?
Huang AiAi
Graduated from National Taiwan University of Arts with a BA in Sculpture, Huang learned the skills of artistic creation from college, nourishing himself by observing the surroundings through a journey or daily life. Huang enjoys helping his team, with limited resources, make ordinary moments in life and spontaneous imaginations happen in their works.
INSTAGRAM：AiAi
Frankenstein's cardboard box
►Raintree Chan
►Installation & Participatory ►non verbal
This work was inspired by pop art artist Richard Hamilton’s Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?. I turned the appealing part into a hyperreality while keeping the visuals of pop culture and consumerism, and created Frankenstein out of the desires. The characters were brought to life by the images of used cardboard boxes and magazines collected from daily life. They are close to the story about distance that you have pictured in your wild imagination.
Raintree Chan
My favorite character Frankenstein, consists of a combination of various objects made, inspires me to start my work in collage art. I am always obsessed in the category in A-Z and the absurdity of B Cult films, same as my creation, reminds of me how fascinating it is within myself.
www.behance.net/raintree1969
Installation
Flesh
►Cheng Chia-Yin, Liang Mong-Han
►Installation
Flesh was debuted at the 1st Close to You Festival in 2010. A puppet with its muscles cut off was hung from a pulley on the iron stand. The puppeteer in laboratory suit animates the puppet, frigidly, by weighing raw meat. The audience was watching all these as if it was an experiment leading to a destined outcome. At the end, the puppeteer grilled the meat and shared it with the audience - making the audience a complicity.
Cheng Chia-Yin
Devoted in puppet theatre for more than 30 years, Cheng is well known for using objects and space to create a sense of fluidity that adds poetic quality into her works. As the Artistic Director of the Puppet & Its Double Theatre, Cheng has been engaging in cultivating puppet artists and international projects. With the unique aesthetics across various cultural backgrounds and art fields, she has successfully led the trend of using puppet as one of the main media in theatre scene
FB:puppetx2
Liang Mong-Han
Liang is currently working in puppet theatre as creator and mask designer. She has established Peuppet on the Work Bnch with Chen Chia-Hao, making small puppet theatre works that combine contemporary and traditional techniques.
FB:puppetontheworkbench
錄像作品
Close, to you. Festival Look Back
►Video
Since a long long time ago (?) Close to You Festival has been traveling with the audience to many places, roaming around the city like a mysterious gathering or a parade. During the preparation this year, we held an anonymous vote on the most impressive programs of all time. From there, we have chosen 4 videos to share with you.
The Finger Movement (2011)
Taiwan｜Ken Ko
@Ecole Café
24hr Operation(2012)
Taiwan｜Hsueh Mei-Hua,Ke Der-Fong
@6636 Advertising & Creativity
Double Blind (2013)
Taiwan｜Baboo, transxtrans
@Libero Coffee & Bar
ORDINARY LIVING (2014)
Hong Kong｜LAU Ming-Hang, LEE Chi-Man
@CAMPOBAG｜URS155