The Zone

“The Zone” project focuses on the relationship between groups and individuals. It incorporates a solo dance performance and transforms a Line app chatbot into a real-time interactive medium, allowing participants to engage in conversations with the chatbot to access different audio files and images within the space. Through this interactive experience, the objective is to explore the relationship between digital avatars and the collective consciousness of society. Participants’ choices and responses also represent individual expressions or silences when faced with social issues and ethical decisions, thus revealing the invisible landscapes within society.
Through the use of mobile phones by participants, graphics and images generated in real time will reflect and reveal various aspects of a social phenomenon, space and audience distribution, and are interconnected and dynamically changing in the process, creating the current limits, edges and zones of consciousness. The self is constantly renewed and accumulated in a field, and after overlapping with others, a field aggregation is formed.
An interactive experience of this type seeks to provoke deeper reflections on the relationship between the individual and society. Through the use of mobile phones, participants interact with their digital counterparts, being able to observe their minds and decisions when facing current issues in society. Through this interactive experience, the objective is to explore the relationship between digital avatars and the collective consciousness of society. Participants’ choices and responses also represent individual expressions or silences when faced with social problems and ethical decisions, thus revealing the invisible landscapes within society. As they move, various instructions and information will appear on the mobile phone and, through this experience, the audience will understand the narratives and past of various characters in society. At the same time, the mobile phone will also collect audience data, allowing audience data to become part of the performance. As the audience moves and gathers, they will complete the work together.

Director:HSUEH Tzu-Chieh
Performer:Livier TU
Choreo:LEE Yin-Ying
Digital Designer:Reng TSAI
Dramaturge:CHEN Yun-Cheng
Video Designer:LIU Chien-Yu
Sound Designer:LIAO Hai-Ting
Escenógrafa:HUNG Tzu-Hsiang
Light Designer:WANG You-Jyun
Tour Manager:WU Po-Shan
Technical support and original development:Cheng KENG

Programming effects: WU Cheng-Ru
Lighting designer and stage director: SUNG Yung Hung
Sound Effects Programmer: HO Kung-Shan

With the support of Taiwan Ministry of Culture, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Spain and the Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipéi City Government.