Who's Hung Tung
The Puppet & Its Double Theater Company Taipei Art Festival, 2011 Aug. 16-21 @ Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei Directer: Chia-yin Cheng (鄭嘉音) Photo by Yo-Wei Chen (陳又維) Who's Hung Tung is a performance with big instillation puppets. It based on the legend story of the Taiwanese artist, Hung Tung(洪通), a countryside labor worker, who started to paint at his 50 and suddenly turned to a big hit in Taiwan and in US fine art circle in 1970s for about 10 years. Bothered by the fame and other rumors, he hided himself afterward until he died. Performers did a collective work, using many different objects related Taiwanese country side daily life such as the red plates people use when worship in temple, bamboo sticks, big water containers, and the elements in his paints to build up a vintage but fantasy world on the stage. |