reCONNECT 2024:
NEW
CANVAS


(2024)


reCONNECT 2024 : NEW CANVAS takes place at the Grand Theater foyer of the National Taichung Theater. The space is adorned with an organic and imitation-natural cave design, creating a technologically sublime-new canvas. The performance incorpo-rates interdisciplinary experimental music and AI-generated immersive audio-visuals,touching on themes of humanities, geography, nature, environment, electronics, and classical elements from Taiwan and Hong Kong. This is an immersive art performance that breaks through time and space restrictions. You will see a new vision and reCONNECT your multiple sensory experience with future art.

Curator's Statement (Escher Tsai)

If the T.A.P. Project of NTT is indeed the setting for Plato's Allegory of the Cave, performers such as classical musicians, electronic musicians, and new media artists become creators of a virtual world constructed by technology and nature.

Audience members are free to choose a spot within the cave, immersing them- selves in the audio-visual narratives performed in the space. Alternatively, they can take on the role of philosophers seeking enlightenment, daring to venture beyond the cave's captivating interplay of light and sound, in pursuit of a deeper understanding and the perception of a more sublime reality.

Director's Statement (Keith Lam)

When Technology became part of Mother Nature, what we see may be just imply a shadow. From stepping into the nature, human constructs buildings and civilisation -This double-edged sword, would create coexistence and co-prosperity on one side, at the same time the army of opposition. We are all the co-creators of this virtual world, are we liberating the slaves on the planet, or creating a giant shadow and eliminating ourselves?


《reCONNECT 2024:NEW CANVAS》以臺中國家歌劇院大劇院前廳的光之曲幕為場域,整體設計呼應自然洞穴的有機概念,創造出科技崇高的新畫布。演出內容包含臺灣與香港的人文、地理、自然環境等視覺意象,融入電子與古典等跨域實驗音樂,以及由AI人工智慧影像生成的沉浸音像表演。這是一場突破時空限制、體驗身處異度空間的沉浸式藝術展演,在恍惚中你將看見一處新視界,重新連結你與未來藝術的多重感官體驗。



策展人的話(蔡宏賢)

如果巨大的光之曲幕正是柏拉圖洞穴寓言之處,古典樂手、電子音樂家、新媒體藝術家的表演者,成了科技與自然所組構出的虛世生成者。


觀眾可以自由選擇洞穴的一處,沉浸於空間中所演繹的音像敘事。或者,他們也可以扮演尋求啟示、冒險超越洞穴迷人光影與聲響互動的哲學家,追求深刻的理解與更為崇高現實的感知。



導演的話(林欣傑)

當科技成為大自然一部分,我們所看到的也許都只是個影子。人類由進入大自然,種出大廈和文明—這把雙刃刀,可以創造共生共榮,也可以樹敵而對立。我們無恙的共同創造這一切虛世,最後會解放一眾奴役者,還是巨大到把自身也消滅掉?


Exhibition
Date: 10 Feb 2024 - 10 May 2024
Venue: National Taichung Theater, Grand Theater Foyer

Showtime
16 Mar 2024 (Sat) 20:00
17 Mar 2024 (Sat) 20:00
展覽
時間:2024/2/10 - 2024/5/10
地點:臺中國家歌劇院 二樓大劇院前廳

演出時間
2024/03/16(六) 20:00
2024/03/17(日) 20:00


Curator
Escher TSAI

Artistic Director & Director
Keith Lam

Music Director
LAM Fung

Technical Director
Seth HON

Producer
Lucy LU

Musical Artist
LIM Giong
LAM Fung
CHANG Hsin-yu

Installation and Music Artist
Keith LAM

Visual Artist
Seth HON

Trumpeter
HOU Cheng-yong

Stage Design
Wincy CHAN

Visual Production
Seth HON
Wincy CHAN

Installation Production
Candice CHOW
Keith LAM

Sound Engineering
LIU Shih-wei

Lighting Design
Sean HUANG

Stage Manager
Monique CHIANG

Associate Producer
WANG Szu-ya
Jessie HUANG
LEE Tzu-chan

Photographer
Martin CHEUNG

Key Visual Designer
Javin Mo (Milkxhake)
策展人
蔡宏賢

藝術總監暨導演
林欣傑

音樂總監
林丰

技術總監
韓家俊

製作人
盧健英

藝術家(音樂)
林強
林丰
張欣語

藝術家(裝置及音樂)
林欣傑

藝術家(影像)
韓家俊

小號樂手
侯丞勇

舞台設計
陳詠斯

影像製作
韓家俊
陳詠斯

裝置製作
周煥欣
林欣傑

聲音工程
劉詩偉

燈光設計
黃彥勳

舞台監督
蔣孟涵

執行製作
王思雅
黃馨慧
李子臻

攝影
張震揚

主視覺設計
毛灼然