Zhongguonongcun
Director: Tingying Ma
Dramaturg: Kang Kang
Visual design: Ray Ting
Zhongguonongcun (Rural China) is the sampling of a performance derived from a play in four acts. The performance happens on an app called Kuaishou, or Kwai, a social media platform similar to Snapchat and uniquely popular in rural China. Millions of users, otherwise invisible in the mainstream, broadcast their everyday life, singing pop music, choreographing dances, staging self-directed drama all the while cultivating fans in a highly competitive economy of attention. This revival of the image of rural China, as well as the fatigue of the concept itself, will be experienced as a live digital interface.
Presented as an opening performance for Elevator Repair Service's revival of No Great Society
Bushwick Starr, June 15, 2017 [performance documentation]