reCONNECT 2024: NEW CANVAS (2024)

Multi-media production in collaboration with Keith Lam (media artist)
Duration: 70 min
Scoring: piano with playback system, trumpet, with electronics, soundscape and sound design
World premiere: 16 March 2024 / Fung Lam (piano), Lim Giong (electronics), Chang Hsin-yu (electronics),
Keith Lam (electronics), Hou Cheng-yong (trumpet)

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?