2nd draft
Showcased on the 23rd May 2023
Resolution Festival, The Place
Drifting.漂浮 2023 expands its exploration of belonging through a new experimental form. This iteration delves into how bodies, movement, and space interconnect to create evocative visual landscapes that resonate with audiences on both conceptual and emotional levels. Incorporating languages from both East and West, alongside familiar traveling sounds from various countries, the piece weaves together intimate soundscapes and lighting to craft a dreamlike environment that evokes a sense of travel and journey through space. Within this fluid space, three performers merge into one entity—a continuous flow of drifting, pausing, and pressing forward through infinite realms. Each element—from set pieces to costumes—carries symbolic weight, transforming into luggage, baggage, or tools that capture fragments of daily life. Through this harmonious blend of individual and collective voices, the piece navigates the delicate balance between personal identity and shared experience.
Drifting.漂浮 2023 以一种全新的实验形式，进一步探索归属的主题。这一次，作品深入挖掘身体、动作与空间的交织，创造出引人共鸣的视觉图景，在概念与情感层面与观众产生共振。融合东西方的语言，以及来自不同国家的熟悉旅行声响，作品通过亲密的音景与灯光编织出一个梦幻般的环境，唤起一种穿越空间的旅行与漫游感。在这流动的空间中，三位表演者融为一体——在无尽的领域中，持续地漂浮、停顿、前行。从布景到服装，每一元素都承载着象征意义，化身为行李箱、包袱或工具，捕捉日常生活的碎片。通过个体与集体声音的和谐交织，作品在个人身份与共享经验之间，探寻微妙的平衡。
Creative Director: Phoebe Shu-Ching Chan
Choreographer: Chen Yin
Performers: Donna Kim, Siyuan Meng, Yuhan Fu
Sound Designer: Pia Rose Scattergood
Lighting Designer: Eleanor Golledge
Visual & Video Design & Editor: Phoebe Chia-En Sun
Videographer & Photographer: Adam Razvi and Woon Lin
Carpenter: Aleksejs Artemjevs
First draft
Public showcased on the 1st June 2022
Studio Theatre, Central Saint Martin
Drifting.漂浮 unfolds as a dreamlike journey through moments suspended in time and space. Through ethereal movements and shifting landscapes, we witness a young woman's passage from East to West—a voyage that transcends physical boundaries to explore the realm of infinite possibilities. As spoken words interweave with visual poetry, her story crystallizes in six luminous moments, each capturing the delicate balance between two worlds coexisting within a single breath. Like ripples in still water, different narratives emerge and dissolve, revealing the layers of identity, yearning, and silent conversations that exist between cultures. This intimate portrait becomes a meditation on belonging, where past, present, and future blend in a performative dialogue.
Drifting.漂浮 是一个如一场梦境漫游，穿梭于时空凝滞的缝隙。轻盈的身姿与流转的风景交织，映照一位年轻女子从东方到西方的漂泊——这是一场跨越疆界的远行，驶向无限可能的彼岸。言语与画面如诗般缠绕，她的故事在六道光芒中凝结，每一瞬都捕捉到两个世界在呼吸间的微妙平衡。似静水涟漪，不同的叙事浮现又消散，揭开身份、渴望与文化间无声对话的重重帷幕。这幅私密的肖像，化作对归属的冥想，过去、现在与未来在流动的对话中交融。
Creative director: Phoebe Shu-Ching Chan
Choreographer: Rocky Chiu
Performers: Wenxuan Lu，Kaijing Wang, Sylvain Murphy
Text & Dramaturgy: Wenjun Dong
Set assistance: Wenfei Jia
Light & Sound Designer: Itching Tian
Projection & Graphic designer: Sanli
Photography as a performative practice
This photographic series reflects my inner emotional landscape and explores my multiple cultural identities. Through visual juxtaposition, the images create a narrative that embodies the complex and often conflicting experiences of growing up as a second-generation immigrant in Australia, distanced from my Taiwanese heritage. In these photographs, I am portrayed as two women dressed in similar colours and silhouettes, yet with distinct differences—a visual metaphor for my dual identity. The work examines the intersection of Eastern values and Western ideologies, revealing how these cultural forces both clash and coexist within me.
摄影作为表演性实践
这个摄影系列反映了我内心的情感世界，并探索了我多元的文化身份。通过视觉上的并置，这些图像构建了一个叙事，体现了作为澳大利亚第二代移民在成长过程中与台湾传统疏离的复杂且常常矛盾的经历。在这些照片中，我被描绘成两位穿着相似颜色和轮廓却有着明显差异的女性——这是我双重身份的视觉隐喻。作品探讨了东方价值观与西方意识形态的交汇，揭示了这些文化力量在我内心如何冲突与共存。
Creative director: Phoebe Shu-Ching Chan
Performers: Phoebe Shu-Ching Chan & Grace Cheung
Photographer: Jinsun Park
Make-up Designer: Rocky Lo
