Prisma
An experimental project of drama, contemporary music, dance and visual art,
Ching chang chong (rock paper scissors) is a game to determine the winner and the loser. However, the term is a slur used in Europe to mock Asians. The play depicts the joys and sorrows of Asian immigrants and their efforts to fight racism in the European society, where Asian hate has grown due to the pandemic. These scenes are delivered not in a violent way, but in peaceful messages with art’s power of tolerance and message of peace. With a series of audiovisual acts on the stage, the negative connotation of ching chang chong converts into a visible yet invisible, absent but clearly present symbol of utopia, into a message of tolerance for all possibilities.
The performers’ ridiculously distorted bodies and their languages going astray represent the various characters, status and cultures of people today, as well as our society’s inability to communicate. The logic of power, stories of overcoming difficulties and success are expressed with acting, dance, singing and pieces. Based on horizontal directing of each genre’s structure and texture, the experimental performance serves as a metaphor for a society where everyone’s identity is recognized. It also features both true and made-up characters and stories, expanding the boundaries of time and space in performing arts.
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Lee Boyoung majored in art and choreography and is leading Prisma as the president. She explores movements, spaces and the meaning of human existence in visual arts, performance and dance dramas. She is an artist and a thinker who believes that the human body and the beauty of its movements are connected to the mind. She stands on the borders of genres and raises questions on new possibilities of total art, creating stages that serve as platforms that establish utopia.
Lee has produced and participated in performing art projects for youth, including <Dance with Hope> (2015 –), <Dancing Borders> (2019) and <Rose is a Rose is a Rose> (2020). She has directed dance films <Recycled Movement> (2015) and <White Cane> (2017) and was invited to various international film/dance festivals. In 2021, she was selected as a recipient of the German government’s project funding program and Artists Rights Society’s scholarship program.
Production·Direction ｜ Boyoung Lee
Composition ｜ Sebastian Bahr
Text ｜ Kyoung Ran Park
Stage Design ｜ Yerina Lee
Costume ｜ Hyunji Na
Light Design ｜ Stefan Tietz
Performer ｜ Miu Kim, Namhee Kim, Nina Niknafs, Sebastian Vetter,
Conduction ｜ Jin Jeon
Soprano ｜Goeun Lee
Instrument ｜ Eun-Bee Lee
Prisma is a community of Germany- and Korea-based artists working in the fields of music, art, dance and literature. All members produce works in their own artistic languages, while also using their diversity as a foundation to develop the group into an alternative and flexible artist community that experiments the forms and meanings of contemporary total art. They focused on the topic of Asian hate in Europe since the onset of the pandemic in 2019, producing creative experimental plays to fight discrimination with the power of art. Taking off with <Ching Chang Chong Sonata No.1>, they are creating variations of themes and formats through continued experiments and workshops.
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