“See Sound Mountain
觀音山
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A performance by Ying-Chu Wu and Yi-Ju Chou.

Concept Ying-Chu Wu & Yi-Ju Chou
Music HighCC

Performing HighCC & Ying-Chu Wu & Yi-Ju Chou
Light Ray Tseng


Premiere 07.2017   
A rooftop addition in Taipei






photo credit Hsia-Ning Wu & Wei-Zong Yang


Mountains
are formed  by volcanism
and continental drift. There is no common
definition of a mountain. Height, volume, steepness, distance
between mountains have all been chosen as ways to define a mountain.
: “Lived through it all in a dream. Don’t know what to do in real life.”
: “Haha, but you have to be alive to continue dreaming.”

“See Sound Mountain” is a stage play that invites the audience to participate in the actors’ process of “attempting to recreate a certain state of experience”.

Two actors are placed in the same space for a given amount of time and create (or enter) both physical and formless states. The audience may take part in the play by entering the living space (as in the stage).

We lived in the venue for two whole weeks. During the rehearsal process, we kept going back and forth between “the role”, “the artist”, and “the audience”, wandering and doubting. Our promotion text usually consists of ambiguous phrases, for we want the audience to feel confused about the play before the performance. We believe the most satisfying way to watch a play is to receive the “complete experience” only when one is in the moment of the play, and can walk away with the information that one desires. (This is a non verbal performance. Two women perform everyday actions until two men show up singing in the very end. The two women fall asleep on the stage after completing the last of their actions.)


山的形成,
是經歷過火山作用或大陸
漂移, 沒有普遍接受的於對山的定義。
高度、 體積、坡度、和其他山的間隔及連續生都曾用來作為定義山的方式。
:夢裡都活玩完了不知道現實要幹麻
:哈哈,但你活著才能睡著做夢

《觀音山》是一個邀請觀眾們參與我們「試圖重現某完整經驗狀態」的戲劇演出。主要的演出內容為兩個演員,在未知的時間軸中,共處在一個空間內,在該期間所延伸出來所有[有形]以及[無形]的模樣。希望透過邀請觀眾進到我們生活的場域(即是演出空間),來參與(觀望、觀看、觀察、品嚐、懷疑)這個似乎作為一種表達或出口的演出。也許你們也有類似經驗,但作為一種新的嘗試,希望邀請你們來與我們共同體驗。


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Mark