Grandmom Mom - Performance
This performance is a one-hour show which includes immersive exhibition, sound theatre, VR film experience, and a science communication workshop.
In this three-year process, Grandmom Mom has been continuously joined by new participants, including our producer, medical consultant, VR director, playwright, visual art advisor, science communication researcher, project manager, project dramaturg, etc. The expansion of staff occurred across several disciplines, because the closer to humanity and ethics artistic contents become, the more fragmentary a single branch of knowledge appears to be. And yet we become ever more certain that we must weave a more comprehensive web to sustain human feelings, which cannot be divided across disciplines. This production team traverses art and science, and fixed roles in it are almost non-existent. Every participant contributes their personal expertise, experience, and feelings to continue co-creating with one another over time. We try to use plainer and even plainer—though not necessarily simplified—words to describe what we understand and how we feel, so as to converse with others and graft our ideas together. We see this as a process of restoring knowledge, returning specialized knowledge and technologies of different disciplines back to a state in which interaction among them is still possible. Only in this way can art bring knowledge back together through interpersonal association. This is the condition to enable reproduction of knowledge in the process of art. This journey of restoration and reproduction leads us back to the position of humans. At the final stage of the project, we cordially invite you to join us on this journey, starting with the presentation of Grandmom Mom.
In this three-year process, Grandmom Mom has been continuously joined by new participants, including our producer, medical consultant, VR director, playwright, visual art advisor, science communication researcher, project manager, project dramaturg, etc. The expansion of staff occurred across several disciplines, because the closer to humanity and ethics artistic contents become, the more fragmentary a single branch of knowledge appears to be. And yet we become ever more certain that we must weave a more comprehensive web to sustain human feelings, which cannot be divided across disciplines. This production team traverses art and science, and fixed roles in it are almost non-existent. Every participant contributes their personal expertise, experience, and feelings to continue co-creating with one another over time. We try to use plainer and even plainer—though not necessarily simplified—words to describe what we understand and how we feel, so as to converse with others and graft our ideas together. We see this as a process of restoring knowledge, returning specialized knowledge and technologies of different disciplines back to a state in which interaction among them is still possible. Only in this way can art bring knowledge back together through interpersonal association. This is the condition to enable reproduction of knowledge in the process of art. This journey of restoration and reproduction leads us back to the position of humans. At the final stage of the project, we cordially invite you to join us on this journey, starting with the presentation of Grandmom Mom.
Credits:
Artists
Kuang-Yi Ku
Wen-Chi Yu （project director)
Lungyin Lim（VR Director）
Collaborative Team
Production Designer: Yang-hsi Hsiao
Costume Designer: Chia-Wei Tien
Interdisciplinary Research Team
Ｍedical Adviser: Dr. Yu-Ping Chen, Dr. Yu-chieh Yang
science communicator: Yu-chieh Cheng
Performance Team
Actor: Vera Sung
Sound: Wen-Chi Liu
Production Team
Produced by Jui-Tzu Chang
Dramaturgy: Yi-Cheng Sun
Administration Manager: Chun-Ting Chen
Co-organiser: Qiu Zaixing Culture and Education Foundation, Honggah Museum
Sponsor by National culture and Arts Foundation (Taiwan)
Artists
Kuang-Yi Ku
Wen-Chi Yu （project director)
Lungyin Lim（VR Director）
Collaborative Team
Production Designer: Yang-hsi Hsiao
Costume Designer: Chia-Wei Tien
Interdisciplinary Research Team
Ｍedical Adviser: Dr. Yu-Ping Chen, Dr. Yu-chieh Yang
science communicator: Yu-chieh Cheng
Performance Team
Actor: Vera Sung
Sound: Wen-Chi Liu
Production Team
Produced by Jui-Tzu Chang
Dramaturgy: Yi-Cheng Sun
Administration Manager: Chun-Ting Chen
Co-organiser: Qiu Zaixing Culture and Education Foundation, Honggah Museum
Sponsor by National culture and Arts Foundation (Taiwan)
Performance (immersive exhibition, sound theatre, VR film experience) in Honggah Museum
Science Communication Workshop in Honggah Museum