Xiàng Zi Xì -alleys play-
a psychogeographical walk through interstitial urban space
collaborated with Christopher Connery & Grass Stage
Shanghai 2012 - 2042
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DESCRIPTION
The 4-hour piece, for a maximum audience of 15 selected members, consists of a 5km "guided" walk, a route, largely through alleyways and lanes, selected for its psychogeographical depth and potential. Through a combination of limited verbal narrative, a series of sensory workshops; audience empowerment through cultivation of full-dimensional observation, peripheral awareness, and empathic thinking; and manifestation of site-specific latencies and their temporal-historical sedimentation via random and nonrandom encounters, accident, site-specific performances, interventions, modifications, and installations, the piece hopes to contribute to general psychographical knowledge, and to a greater awareness of the act of walking, and its potential for world-creation and wonder.
NOTE: by participating in the event, audience members agree to prohibitions against mutual conversation, photography, and other distractions.
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0.5 CAST (Excl. incidental unconscious actors/actresses)
C.C. tour guide，sensory workshop leader Xu Zhifeng tour guide，coordinator Li Weiwei logistic，communications Wu Jueren doudizhu solo player， changle cun Lin Bao house storyteller， changle cun FZK's g.daughter discussant of g.father's painting，changle cun CD vendor street dj， s.shaanxi/xinle lu Zhang Jingwei recyclist，changle cun，daxing li Mr. Ren blind 'sheng' player，changle lu Yao Bo ceramics spirit-woman，44 xiangyang lu Wang Boyuan water calligrapher，44 xiangyang lu Tang Liang real beggar， xiangyanglu，w.nanjing lu kiosk girl sell ice lolly green moods，877yan'an lu Yang'ayi owner kiosk historian， lin cun Mr. Chen resident jing'an villa historian Yu Bingxia(cover) bookstore 2666 fantast， jing'an villa Wu Meng 'the old man and the sea' in the alley Wu Jiamin 'the old man and the sea' in the alley the Limb a collective memento for the sea
‘Urban China’058
