Note for Directors Lab 0720
The two ideas for the new performance project are pieces of a puzzle for me but Chan Ping Chiu described them as two ends of a pendulum. "Civil Beauty" which tries to relocate/rename art in the context of society and civil value is, yes, more suitable for visual arts project, considering its research basis. Yet the devicing approach may facilitate better the objective to question (myself) the idea about artistic deeds, regarding less to the form.
Chiu is obviously more interested in seeing the possible result of "combining my personal spiritual practice with performance" although my intention was much less aggressive - just to interpret based on daily life experiences the Tibetan Buddhist literature that illustrates the causes of cyclic existence (Diagram of 12 Causes). He said a couple of friends have been thinking about the attempt of such integration and I should take the step first. Another merit is the potential linkage between his project, My Dinner with Andre, with this, sharing the reference to Grotowsky in different ways. Indeed, the theatre master is almost religious for me, at least in the play.
The director-lab project seems already working. More concerned with concepts and means of presentation, as habits perhaps, I was freshly enlightened by Chiu's sensitivity and suggestiveness about the elements of theatre, especially the audience. He is paying great care with relevant experiences in formulating his experiment. An adorable and devoted artist he is.
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