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No one gets the “omnipresent” full picture. Everyone makes their own choice and create their own story.

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From spectator to participant

This is a story about self-determination, from exploration of our body to identity. The core message is to go take initiative and make a step forward, where the non-directional space calls for your intervention to the setting. The spatial role of theatre is then a container of events waiting to be discovered, instead of spoon-feeding information from the viewed to the viewer. Without a stage or performers, the spectators become protagonist; as everyone is situated at the same level, we are all equal participants.

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The Rhizome structure of incidents

The narrative draws from A Thousand Plateaus, with a series of fragmental incidents that appears to be unrelated, but as a collective one might find the link in-between (and to oneself). The physical setting is therefore intertwined, instead of distinct rooms or scenery for each story, it forms a cluster of familiar objects with no clear boundary. The core cluster dissolves into peripheral objects and further to marginal pieces as a decentralised network, or a rhizome structure that new bud could grow from anywhere.

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The realistic virtual space and the abstract real space

The virtual experience is the most intimate and private, not a spectacle or sensory stimulant, but colourful and filled with the richness of real life. The physical reality is a mirrored setting to be experienced collectively and in public, stripped out of any clutter and nuances. The theatre space is then transformed into an abstraction of reality with light and sound, first delineate the contrast of public and private sphere, then the threshold is slowly dissolved as the narrative unfolds.

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As the story goes on, can we become companion to one another?

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2021 | Space Design for non-theatre production by Rita Hui, Peikei Wong & Kaying Wong | @Freespace, West Kowloon Cultural District

https://www.westkowloon.hk/en/freespace/whats-on-2881/a-thousand-plateaus

Devised by an all-woman creative team – independent filmmaker Rita Hui, dancer Wong Pik-kei and visual artist Wong Ka-ying – A Thousand Plateaus features real-life stories about identity, gender, relationships and lust, each existing outside the mainstream social narrative and each told by the protagonists through various sensory forms. As audience-participants move freely around the site, they experience these stories in various ways, shifting back and forth between virtual and real-world perception. The experience is expanded with VR imagery, audio and musical soundscapes, on-site instructions, physical interaction and sharing.