Senses of Ten - Work 9
Playground as Metaphor:
Revisiting a Scene in Life/Re-imagined Childhood Tales
Installation / Performance (2022)
Developed in collaboration with Hong Kong filmmaker Cheuk Cheung, Playground As Metaphor - Revisiting a Scene in Life and Re-imagine Childhood Tales is a participatory art project that encourages diverse communities to excavate personal ‘playgrounds’ in the city through rendering memories and stories, soundscapes and installations, bodies and images into narratives of celebration and solidarity. Anchored to artist-led workshops where communal narratives and personal memories are interwoven through with fabulation and story-telling, this project envisions the concept of the playground, a public space for conviviality and learning through fun, as a collective metaphor that can strengthen social bonds.
If you were to lose your memory tomorrow, which memory would you most want to preserve?" This was the starting point for the project.
From writing the open call questionnaire to the designing and implementation of the entire interview process. The encounters, the exchanges, workshops, rehearsals and collective listenings, every detail of filming and presentation—we experienced a long journey together.
Participants entrust their memory to a stranger, hoping it can be preserved. At the same time, having lost their memory, they each receive a new memory implanted by a stranger. What struck us most deeply is everyone's willingness to transform their personal stories into scripts or artistic interventions, trusting each other while creating. Gradually, the memory archive evolved into a playground. Within this playground-like collective, "role play"—the act of embodying and switching roles—is both a game and a ritual
Senses of Ten - Work 9
Playground as Metaphor:
Revisiting a Scene in Life/Re-imagined Childhood Tales
Installation / Performance (2022)
Developed in collaboration with Hong Kong filmmaker Cheuk Cheung, Playground As Metaphor - Revisiting a Scene in Life and Re-imagine Childhood Tales is a participatory art project that encourages diverse communities to excavate personal ‘playgrounds’ in the city through rendering memories and stories, soundscapes and installations, bodies and images into narratives of celebration and solidarity. Anchored to artist-led workshops where communal narratives and personal memories are interwoven through with fabulation and story-telling, this project envisions the concept of the playground, a public space for conviviality and learning through fun, as a collective metaphor that can strengthen social bonds.
If you were to lose your memory tomorrow, which memory would you most want to preserve?" This was the starting point for the project.
From writing the open call questionnaire to the designing and implementation of the entire interview process. The encounters, the exchanges, workshops, rehearsals and collective listenings, every detail of filming and presentation—we experienced a long journey together.
Participants entrust their memory to a stranger, hoping it can be preserved. At the same time, having lost their memory, they each receive a new memory implanted by a stranger. What struck us most deeply is everyone's willingness to transform their personal stories into scripts or artistic interventions, trusting each other while creating. Gradually, the memory archive evolved into a playground. Within this playground-like collective, "role play"—the act of embodying and switching roles—is both a game and a ritual