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Following The Trilogy of Silent Island – “Silent Island” (2006), “Paradise of Silent Island” (2006), and “New Paradise of Silent Island” (2017), Ho Hsiao-mei engages yet another new creative project, in an attempt to define performance with a broader perspective. Performativity condensed and crystalized in life by life ritual is employed in art performance. With the sense of alienation and falsehood existed in a proscenium-arch stage back in the days removed, the common emotions as well as collective memory observed in the ritual is to be fused to create a revolutionary language for performance art novel to the eyes.

” renaissance of its ashes– An Experimental Project” employs the barely-naked flesh and a crystal-clear stage design visually to portray the true hearts of men. All men, propelled by the lusts within, twist their bodies into postures impossible in terms of ergonomics. Through the attachment and detachment of body parts in different textures, the sense of agony, loss, and struggle in life are manifested, while life itself obtains the balance through ordeals.

Rooted deep in the ritual spirit and cultural heritage, the experimental work creates a non-canonical ritual ambiance via special stage devices, laser light projectors and acoustic sound effects of new media for a showcase of bodies to the extreme to challenge the viewing experience of the audience. Time travel mixed with reality and fiction is produced to give off an atmosphere closer and true to life, while the audience are absorbed in the performance as its witness amidst the visualized ambiance where divinity and secularity manifest themselves side-by-side.

” renaissance of its ashes– An Experimental Project” continues to develop with each and every performance experience and reconnects the commonality and relationship between art performance and life through its creative attributes of “witness” and “experience” along with the audience’s view experiences.