KUAN-YU STANLEY LIN

Work in Progress

The Dark Eggs produce process-driven experimental performances. We want to take risks with ourselves and with our audience. We question both the physical and figurative boundaries between audience and performer. Work in Progress is an improvised piece exploring the nature of spectatorship and the dynamic power and fragility of placing a body in space.

 

Our bodies are always waiting, waiting for the right place and the right time. Through a series of actions, tasks, games and interactions, we as performers try to forge a path for ourselves, as individuals and as a group. By creating a space, we create a potential, and now we try to navigate this through our entrances and exits. Events occur; chances are missed; relationships are revealed; intentions are hidden; time is measured and distorted; feelings are documented. We are straining towards a meaning we do not yet have. All we can do is to wait and listen.

 

This work is never the same, neither for performers nor audience. Whilst we move between a primary and secondary space, doing, documenting and observing, it is up to the audience, seated in the tertiary space, to interpret. Seated in the round, the audience as a collective body experience the performance from all angles, yet as individuals are locked into a unique and highly subjective position. Through exploring the liveliness of performance we hope to split the seams between what it means to do, document, observe and interpret, and question our roles and yours.