Rethinking ‘the book’ as a medium

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only those we’ve encountered, existed. (2018)

I thought April 2018 would be the end of the project, after the realisation of how a person could be affected by this contemporary form of ‘stories’. You kind of drifted away from it when you discover the substantial amount of unnecessary information you forced yourself to receive daily. Whats more is during the process of typographing, binding, going through the substances over and over again amplifies the emotion embedded within the lines and images. Memories repeat and repeat until you want to emancipate your mind from it – that’s what I told my audiences who visited the exhibition at RSA.

But what happened recently in the hovering city have drawn my attention, once again, back to the social media. Being absent from the crime scene doesn’t mean that you could deny a crime was committed. It is experienced by million others – and things change, so as your self-consciousness and identity, your mind forged by images and your position moved by words – all begins at the moment you choose to process an information.

People expecting a storm can’t help checking on the forecast.

 

Audio work at Reading Assembly, Tate Exchange

 

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Utopia, Dystopia (2018), Film, Theatre & Television Department
School of Arts and Communication Design at Tate Exchange

 

Performing arts is a process of identity construction. It requires immersion into another experience and life in order to act vividly; playwrights do editing the plays – like storytellers edit the source of stories collected. In the process, creative decisions are made, new pieces of a creative expression are orchestrated, and, most importantly, they are made to be told / shown / performed.

I am delighted to be involved in Reading Assembly and to perform parts from Lungs by Duncan Macmillian and Oil by Ella Hickson. The plays discuss a mixture of vital social issues including ecology, politics, immigrants, etc. The plays provide a few stepping stone for analysing the authors’ viewpoint on these topics. The display, Utopia / Dystopia, at the Reading Assembly, Tate Exchange would be focusing on the ecology aspect. It will follow by a panel discussion on London 2050.