2017 — performance — a maya + rouvelle collaboration.
Woven is a collaborative project for the Shanghai New Art Festival by maya + rouvelle and composer Weilu Ge.
The piece was performed in Shanghai 4 times at the Mercedes Benz arena and at the National Theater Academy.
Scored for Glass instruments, Bass, Percussion, and Pipa. The staged version included an actress and live video.
Program note:
We change as we adapt to our environments, and through that process we become amalgamations of each other. If we allow ourselves to see and be seen as these unusual reflections across space, time, and cultures we allow ourselves to learn through empathy, and cultivate wisdom. There is an essential human force that connects past and present, male and female, East and West, the known and the unfamiliar. Its goal is to weave us together into a stability of change.
Our project is about this energy. Spanning binaries, it is a force that builds social cohesion as it fosters individuality.
But we must do our part, to both weave and to allow ourselves to be woven, to permit the process to live within and around us. Without it things unravel, and we become lost in a pile of tangled threads.
Full Flickr set/video here.