KIDNAPPED – A PROLOGUE + RETINA MANEUVER

KIDNAPPED - A PROLOGUE

RODRIGO BATISTA & MARIANA SENNE / MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM, WIPCOOP & CAMPO 

  EN, PT      THEATER    

KIDNAPPED is a work in progress for a speculative metaphor: in our illusory world of neoliberal ‘freedom’, we are all, in some sense, kidnapped. Dragged along by ideologies, identities, technologies, political systems, predatory relationships, competition, capital, structural inequalities, … In other words: we are abducted by the deep-rooted subconscious power of colonialism and capitalism, trapped between the concrete absurdity of globalised macropolitics and the duplicitous, often elitist, longing for micropolitical solutions.

RETINA MANEUVER  

PING-HSIANG WANG / TATWERK | PERFORMATIVE FORSCHUNG 

  EN     THEATER, LECTURE PERFORMANCE    

At the last WIPCOOP edition, Ping-Hsiang Wang made his mark with this multimedia solo lecture performance. In Retina Maneuver, he investigates how Taiwanese millennials’ perspectives on conscription and military violence have evolved in the past ten years, through a queer lens. He dives into his digital archive in order to uncover his inexplicable obsession with the iconic pop song Girl on Fire … The deeper he digs, the more memories surface of his time in the Taiwanese army, ten years ago.