project description

In a Box is a multimedia performance that tells a story about alone but not lonely. The performer performs inside a semi-transparent box with four lamps. In this performance, lamps become performing instruments that express emotion. There are four light switches in the installation that become interfaces to generate live music. Light switches are mapped with different music notes, loops, and midi instruments. Through choreographed movement, the performer activates these light switches to generate melodies and beats to make a live composition of movement, light, and music.

Through a theatrical style, the project illustrates the artist's reflection on the relationship of self and the world. Inspired by night views of tall apartment buildings in New York, each apartment window has different lamps, light colors, and people’s shadows. It is like everyone lives in a small box with their own unique stories. In this performance, the box becomes a metaphor of an individual’s world. As a daily interior scene slowly transforms into an imaginative and fictional world with lamps and music, are we all playing in our own magic reality within the large reality?