NIGHTWALK: POURQUOI?

 

NIGHTWALK: POURQUOI?

in Macao City Fringe Festival, 2020.

in TPAM Fringe, 'If On A Winter's Night An Employee'

at Wakabacho Wharf, Yokohama, Japan, 2018.

Performed by Tao Chiang & Yenting Tseng

Concept & Sound/ Tao Chiang

Installation & Objects/ Yenting Tseng

Text/ Grass Wang & Tao Chiang

Photograph/ Ash Lin & Leonor Rosario

Nightwalk: Pourquoi? is a piece of sound and shadow theater that uses a soundwalk recording as its basic material and structure. The recording of the environmental sounds of a stroll through an urban landscape at nighttime sounds realistic at first, but gradually becomes manipulated and distorted, overlaid with other synthetic sounds and spoken word, as we delve into the subjective mind of the Walker, the worries, regrets, and dreams of day to day life. 

The audience is situated in the middle of a surround-sound system, listening to the thoughts of the Walker and the passing soundscape. Shadows projected from revolving installations and seemingly random objects emerge throughout the space. Familiar images merge and transform into a stream-of-consciousness, as the Walker reflects on the events of this day and the days to come.