The installation of Object-Subjectivities (on display 19 May 2016) has one performance (21 May) as its live annotation. A series of structured improvisation in three acts with a coda, it builds upon cleansing via water as the overall metaphor and algorithm as the proto-script of action. Object-activities; (1989, the precedent of Object-Subjectivities, originated as a cross-disciplinary art experiment in the light of the American Avant-garde, and performed in July 1989 a month after the June-Fourth massacres, was a mourning space volunteered by the artists involved. When reworked in 2006 as a one-long-take tableau-vivant video work, LOOK: Object-activity, the focus was on the musicality of multi-linear parametric visual narration and multi-stranded actions on a single theatre space for its pictorial and formal effects. The piece suggests a time and a mind at ease. Object-Subjectivities in 2016 asserts communication via doing things together. The principle of “collective co-individuation” manifests in a play with objects – each performer following his/her own self-made routines to create a meditative space that also invites sharing and exchange.

Act One: ”automation, emergence, artificial intelligence, programmed democracy”
Act Two: ”hardworking algorithms”
Act Three: ”collective co-individuation”
Coda: ”relentless remembering”

Documents for the performance 有關演出的文本

Automatic writings from rehearsals不假思索現場書寫[15th May][21st May]

Projected Chinese texts (HK stories) in the performance 演出中投影的香港故事 [full text, archival record only]

See also FULL PROPOSAL for flow of improvization

請參看「完整計劃書』瞭解即興演出的構思和流程