The space in between
2020.09
作曲家，瑞秋 |Composer, Rachel C. Walker
曲詞創作與改編，蔡昀庭｜ Librettist, Autumn Tsai
聲音與打擊樂，劉育秀 | Voice and Percussion, Liu Yu-Hsiu
聲音與彈撥，李季謙｜Voice and String Instrument, Li Chi-Chien
曲詞創作與改編，蔡昀庭｜ Librettist, Autumn Tsai
聲音與打擊樂，劉育秀 | Voice and Percussion, Liu Yu-Hsiu
聲音與彈撥，李季謙｜Voice and String Instrument, Li Chi-Chien
Performance Excerpt: Guan Hua and Mandarin
About
Over hundreds of years, “Zhaojun Departing for the Frontier” — the plot of which describes the Han Palace’s beautiful peace token Wang Zhaojun, who is married off to the foreign lands with a Pipa elegy — has been interpreted and reinterpreted in many forms. Her figure remains silent, a fictional character readily seen in the words of another authority who paints her in his surmises.
With my own story interwoven into a stream of historical references in dialogue with contemporary Taiwanese female writers, I become both Ma Zhiyuan’s collaborator studying the historical context of Wang Zhaojun, and an extension of Lin Daiyu from A Dream of the Red Chamber, who sighs at the fate of the Four Beauties.
As Zhaojun's story unfolds once again as a Beiguan piece, the story-teller’s story is left to be retold, shifting and obscuring the boundaries between these realities. And it is in moving across space and time that Wang Zhaojun's story begins to be unraveled...
With my own story interwoven into a stream of historical references in dialogue with contemporary Taiwanese female writers, I become both Ma Zhiyuan’s collaborator studying the historical context of Wang Zhaojun, and an extension of Lin Daiyu from A Dream of the Red Chamber, who sighs at the fate of the Four Beauties.
As Zhaojun's story unfolds once again as a Beiguan piece, the story-teller’s story is left to be retold, shifting and obscuring the boundaries between these realities. And it is in moving across space and time that Wang Zhaojun's story begins to be unraveled...
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TRAIECT III Taiwan 2021:
Talk on The space in between.
Hannover, Germany.
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