Zhang Yijun performed in the "X Person" exhibition room of Gaomei Pavilion. There is no fixed stage direction. Dancers may appear from the audience at any time to show their dancing postures. Tracking lights and digital projections are used instead of stage lights at the performance site.

(Provided by Gaomei Museum)

[Reporter Tu Yingru/Taipei Report] New media artist Huang Xinjian's first large-scale retrospective exhibition "X Person - Huang Xinjian's Metaverse Theater" is being exhibited enthusiastically at Gaomei Museum. Gaomei Museum specially invited contemporary performance artist Zhang Yijun, who is famous for Huang Xinjian The VR work "Reincarnation" is an idea. Together with the student dancers of the Chinese Art School in Kaohsiung City, the wonderful performance project "Huang Xinjian's Reincarnation Universe" will be presented on December 17 (Saturday) with beautiful and smooth dance combined with lighting and projection technology Performances at 6:30 and 7:30 in the Sculpture Hall of the Gaomei Pavilion (about 30 minutes each).

Stills of Huang Xinjian's work "Food Soil".

(Provided by Huang Xinjian)

Li Yuling, director of Gaomei Pavilion, said that Huang Xinjian's "Reincarnation" was shortlisted for the 78th Venice Film Festival, and won the Jury Award of South by Southwest Texas (SXSW) Film Festival, the Best Story Award of Cannes XR Film Festival and the honor of Ars Electronica Linz in Austria Awards and other international awards, and the Gaomei Pavilion invited Zhang Yijun to perform "Huang Xinjian's Reincarnation Universe", and tried to make the audience a part of the performance through the combination of new media art and performing arts, bringing a subversion of the existing form. Feast of sympathy.

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"Reincarnation" leads the audience into a sci-fi journey spanning tens of millions of years, just like the six reincarnations in Buddhist thought. During the journey of experiencing the work, the audience will be reincarnated into different people and creatures, and re-feel and experience the universe with a new body , trying to seek the ultimate detachment of one's own spirituality, and then understand the "other" point of view, generate deeper empathy, and reflect on the state of one's own existence.

In order to highlight the meaning of the work "Reincarnation", Zhang Yijun used the repeated hands and many twisted and mutated figures of sentient beings in this work to narrow the relationship between the audience and the reality, and the audience may find that they appear Now in the projection, it becomes the object watched by others.

In conjunction with the evening performance on December 17 (Saturday), the Gaomei Pavilion will extend the opening hours of the "X Person" exhibition to 8:00 p.m. that night.

The performance "Huang Xinjian's Reincarnation Universe" brought by Zhang Yijun and dancers from the Chinese Arts School is free of charge. The two performances are open to the audience at 6:00 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. respectively.

There are no seats in the venue. People can wear white/light-colored clothes that are easy to stand or sit on. They can also bring their own pillows to participate. For details, please visit the website of Gaomei Museum www.kmfa.gov.tw.

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