Longing  Live Performance

Chameleon Gallery

Longing Featuring special Live Performance exploring the connection bounded within and beyond in the closing

325 Canal St

Time:Closing Reception: 6pm - 10pm Performance: 8:30 - 9:30In the closing, Chameleon Gallery presents two live performances, Emotions on Line by Yihan Chen, and Automaton Alive by Lane Shi Otayonii. In Chen’s performance, she performs with a wearable instrument that is triggered by pulling strings out of a retractable custom mechanism. Her body and external mechanism operate together as a unity, expanding the corporeal existence and pursuing a bodily coherence bounded within the solitary entity. The string is the allegory of longing for building a connection, yet the limited length constrained by the body makes the intention of establishing a connection to become an individual action. Searching for the connection, differently, is involved with another entity, an Automaton, in Otayonii’s performance. This automaton, named CC, an innocent child who runs to find the mother during the last day of the world, performs along with Otayonii. CC is not only an inhuman being, aka a robot, but also an externalization of the performer, the representation of the “I”, and a fragmented body image. Echoing Lacan’s Mirror Stage theory, the baby automaton is the reflexivity of the self/performer, and the distance between them is bridging with the sound vibrating in the space. These two performances are more about searching for the identity of self. The longingness of wholeness, rather than achieving through internality, is mediated with external media, which implies an inclination to expand the human body to achieve this goal facing the loneliness and fragility in everyday life. Emotions on LineYihan Chen	Emotions on Line is a wearable instrument that generates sound by pulling strings out of a retractable custom mechanism attached to the performer’s body. The sound has an analog change according to the performer’s body extension. In this way, different people with different body size would play the instrument differently with the unique sound being composed.Automaton AliveLane Shi Otayonii 	Automaton Alive took the story and transform it into a performing piece that has the center spotlight of the physical resemblance of the main character “CC”, which is an one-meter-tall automaton, who will be “singing” and “harmonizing” with me, along with body movements and light installation inside the automaton to show the key components in my concept. In the piece sound and the music will run through the whole storyboard, it contains clues to tell the story as it evolves. Sounds and music are played live all by me, similar to the concept of live film scoring. On top of that, projection mapping will be complied to the color expressions in the scenes. In this piece, I am a troubadour, a 3rd narrative telling the story with sounds and voice, later become a chained-soul of the lost generation; “CC” on the other hand, is a future resemblance of myself in the form of another spices, existing on the day of world’s end. And our two identity intertwine when “CC” starts to harmonize with me vocally.

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