When was the final time you stayed awake from nightfall until daybreak?
In a 12-hour efficiency this weekend, Malaysian theatremakers Arief Hamizan, Bryan Chang, and Tung Jit Yang will try to piece collectively “unending ideas” that folks expertise.
This theatre piece, known as EveryThoughtI’veEverHad: Contemplating The Origin Of The Sun, shall be staged at the KongsiKL arts warehouse on April 16, beginning 7.18pm. It will even be streamed dwell by way of Twitch.
“The piece is an exploration into the truth that we appear to have an countless mind. An countless practice of thought. Like it by no means ever stops. As you sleep and at each waking second your mind has ideas. We try to deal with this easy but profound reality within the efficiency,” explains Tung, director in residence at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac).
Audiences are welcome to come back and go as they please in the course of the 12-hour show, or to remain for your entire time. If you’re fasting, carry over some meals to buka puasa with your associates, or for sahur earlier than the solar rises whereas watching the theatre efficiency.
“I really feel a way of daunting heading into the efficiency, of not really understanding what’s in retailer for us or the viewers. We are getting down to seize a glimpse of our personal infinite streams of consciousness, this unending cavalcade of ideas, feelings, and experiences.
“We don’t know what we’ll discover. But I feel that creates an area for surprise and revelation, and I hope that turns into a shared expertise for everybody who participates,” affords Arief, co-founder of Panas Panas Theatre.
EveryThoughtI’veEverHad is a part of the Japan Foundation, Kuala Lumpur’s Kaleidoscope Japan: Online Exhibition.
This month-long exhibition (ending on April 24) is a hybrid presentation, exploring the Malaysia-Japan relationship by way of visible artwork, shifting photos, efficiency, music and literature.
It options work from 13 Malaysian artists who mirror on their observations and hopes revolving round Japan and its relationship with Malaysia, from a social and cultural perspective, in addition to the political and economical local weather.
EveryThoughtI’veEverHad, particularly, appears into questions similar to what’s a stream of consciousness and the way can we deal with and navigate by means of this seemingly countless stream of thought that exists inside us.
The analysis paper “Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic” by American psychologist Dr. Russell T. Hurlburt, revealed in 2007, served because the group’s place to begin.
In this experiment, a younger girl was fitted with a beeper that randomly prompted her to document every little thing that was occurring in her expertise a number of instances a day during the experiment.
Following a virtually one-month improvisational journey of Dr Hurlburt’s experiment on interior expertise, Arief, Chang, and Tung produced the 12-hour-long show primarily based on their findings.
The theatremakers will even study their very own private relationships with Japan, specializing in the intersections of reminiscence and coverage within the nation.
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