The Rite of Meme
At the beginning of the last century, Russia’s renowned choreographer Vaslav
Nijinsky caused a scene by “The Rite of Spring” at the premiere, the provocative piece had been marked in the Avant-garde Movement’s history.
Its “lack of musicality” and an almost irritating kind of offbeat dance move, doesn't it sound like one of the best viral materials for social media nowadays?
The workshop attempts to respond to the present “Internet Meme” phenomenon by the form of “The Rite of Spring”.
The experimental experience not only explores the relationship between “digital” and “corporeality”, but also allows us to undergo the “Theory of Relativity” - a series of body movements and facial expressions with a cause, only a few seconds of it are being edited randomly to generate some online “sensation”. Every participant will walk out of the workshop with a set of personalized “Meme” and “GIF”.
“The Rite of Spring” has been lasting in art history for 111 years, and do you think your “The Rite of Meme” is able to last online for 111 minutes?
Date : 2021.12.26 (Sun)
Time : 2pm - 5pm
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Number of Participants: 10 people
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Target: Age 18 or above ; non-dancer preferable; participants are
recommended to view the artwork first -
Language: Conducted in Chinese with English translation
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Fee: Free, pre-registration required
Registration Information｜https://forms.gle/5zLkWNVhXsMiYLwG9
* This workshop will be conducted in English and Chinese
Curatorial Concept:
Juanita Cheng aka Missy Hyper
A multimedia artist/curator and LGBTQIA+ activist from Hong Kong. She is also the first re-appointed Rainbow Ambassador for Hong Kong Pride Parade who embraces a diverse artistic spectrum - literature, stage performance, acrylic painting, videography, installation art and so on.
Her solo staging “Slash Queen TalkShow” has been toured from Hong Kong to Copenhagen Denmark and Perth Australia, performed in both Cantonese and
English. Alongside the exhibition of her installation artwork “See-thru PRIDE”.
She is now studying the International MA Program in Cultural and Creative Industries at Taipei National University of the Arts. www.missyhyper.asia
Workshop Team Members:
Cheong Cho Seng, Oscar
Cheong Cho Seng, Oscar. From Macao, a member of Comuna de Pedra and Soda-City Experimental Workshop in Macao. Cheong has participated in numerous
performances in different roles, including actor, creator, and coordinator. Cheong has toured to Denmark, Portugal, France, Thailand, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong for exchanges and performances.
Fabiola is a choreographer, performer, and dance educator from Mexico. She holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (2014), and a Bachelor of Dance with Honors (2018), both from Universidad de las Américas Puebla. Her choreographic work has been presented in Mexico, USA, Canada, Hungary, and India. As a dance educator, she has taught ballet and modern/contemporary technique for various ages and levels in Mexico, Croatia, and India. As a performer, she worked with acclaimed French choreographer Xavier Le Roy and Scarlet Yu for
the exhibition 'Retrospective' at Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City in 2019.
Fabiola Guillén
Jinie Park
Jinie Park is from Seoul, South Korea. She studied Curatorial Studies and Art management in college. She participated in curating the graduation exhibition‘Funerals that Grow Everyday’ which deals with ‘unsolved’ social tragedies that took place in South Korea. In order to investigate Taiwan’s art scene and art spaces, she is currently studying in the International Master’s Program in Cultural and Creative Industries, Taiwan National University of Arts. In future, she hopes to become a
bridge between the Korean and Taiwanese contemporary art scene.
Natnaree Riewpaiboon or “Waii” is an art and cultural practitioner from Bangkok, Thailand. She has just currently started her new chapter in Taipei, Taiwan, to
explore local art projects which engage with social issues and communities. After graduating Bachelor's from Fine Arts, she discovered the field of “community-based art” and has been involved in this field as a project manager and producer. With her small contribution to the art scene, she believes that art must and always has room for people from different social backgrounds and she is trying to prove this belief to herself and to society.
Natnaree Riewpaiboon
aka Waii
Ariunkhishig Ulziisaikhan
Ariuka is a musician from Mongolia with 14 years of art and professional experience in music, an expert of Yatga the traditional Mongolian musical instrument. She accomplished a Master of Art at the MSUAC, Mongolia in 2018. She is currently studying for her second MA degree, International Master of the Arts Program in Cultural and Creative Industries at Taipei National University of the Arts. She had performed in Japan, Korea, Russia, China and Australia, participated in the “Asia Sori Project” exchanging program in South Korea and “Young Leaders Culture and Arts” program in partnership with the Arts Council of Mongolia in the USA.
Quyen Pham is an independent writer, translator, and coordinator and organizer from Hanoi, Vietnam. She has been working as a program manager at Heritage
Space - an independent art space in Hanoi - and got involved in planning and operating multidisciplinary creative events and projects with other art centers in the city since 2018. She also works as Communication Officer at Mekong Cultural Hub- an initiative which offers personal and professional development opportunities for creative cultural practitioners in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand and Taiwan. Quyen is currently studying the International Master of the Arts Program in Cultural and Creative Industries (IMCCI) at Taipei National University of the Arts.