Ksana / 剎那

 

2018 Performance

Duration: 180 min

Perform by: Beio, Baby ChinaYu, Ndoho

Music by: Felix-Florian Todtloff

 

Ksana is an excerpt of a larger 12-hour performance that Tianzhuo Chen is currently developing. The 3-hour performance takes its title from the “900 arisings and ceasings” in each ksana (the shortest unit of time in Buddhist philosophy) as mentioned in the “The Humane King Sutra.” The piece is a semi-improvised experiment in physical performance, differing from the extensive planning behind Chen’s previous theatrical work. The audience may freely move around the installation space as they experience the piece, encountering the symbolic bodies of the half-human, half-god performers. Calm, atmospheric music and piercing metal guitar alternately resonate, creating a fierce shamanic ritual that is almost like a contemporary exorcism. The performers express and confront desires from the viewer’s own hearts, just like the wrathful deity Makahala.

Faurschou Foundation Exhibition – live recording

 

 

     

Photo by Ren Weixing

Faurschou Foundation Exhibition 

Photo by Ren Weixing