The Scenery of Little Light

Suddenly, from all the green around you,
Something, you don’t know what, has disappeared;
you feel it creeping closer to the window,
in total silence. From the nearby wood
—Before Summer Rain, Rainer Maria Rilke

New media artist Lien-Chen Wang, invites director Yow-ruu Chen, dancer Hsiao-tzu Tien, playwright Shiau-ting Hung, lighting design I-hua Kao, stage design Yin-chiao Liao, music and sound design Ping-sheng Wu, video design Max Lee, and costume design Yiwen Hsieh; together they formed a team to develop the brand new piece “The Scenery of Little Light” that combines technology and the physical body. The piece explores the various possibilities of digital aesthetics and the human body. Through the collaborative performance of real performers and robots, exploring humanity, repression, fantasy, prying, and violence. “The Scenery of Little Light” was invited as one of the 2020 National Taichung Theater, Taiwan International Festival of Arts (NTT-TIFA), which will be performed at the National Taichung Theater from 2020 May 16th to May 17th. Prior to the TIFA, on March 18th the piece will be exhibited in Digital Art Center, Taipei.