December with Ghost and John

Shall we keep chatting? 🥳

CONVERSATIONS!
If Ghost and John earn from doing conversations,
they may be billionaires now~!

In the past two months, we have been involved in several panels, reading and study groups, including Asia Art Activism, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Art/Activism with AN Bursary and more, discussing what is the artist's role in current activisms, what are the artists' responsibility and how we project a collective future.

We are grateful to be speaking alongside brilliant artists, producers and scholars, including dramaturg Monica Gillette, LJ from Take Me Somewhere Festival, Prof. Josh Armstrong, Curator Howl Yuan, and many more. We also have led a 4-hour session about Art, Activism and Nature. 

Looking at other knowledge systems, such as ecology, black chain technology and social innovations, has stretched our imagination on how we can instigate change. We expand this to thinking strategies for cultural organisations and independent artists to derive and become active/reactive units.

As we reach the ending of this year, with The Economist's "The World in 2021" on our coffee table, we continue to project great positivity yet being ready for new challenges and surprises. 

New Review on "I'M NOT SURE"

A new piece of review on our performance, "I'M NOT SURE ABOUT YOU, BUT I NEED ...", at Goethe-Institut Hongkong in October, is released on Dance Journal/hk.

// 以前劇場家總是說，劇場是介乎現實和虛構之間的第三空間——情節或屬虛構，但表演者總為觀眾帶來最真摯的情感交流，讓他們反思自己在現實世界的生活。⿁與約翰這次演出中，兩位舞者引領觀眾透過自己的手機共同構作這一小時的經歷，重新定義了劇場裡的真實和虛擬。//
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"A Bit About Meniscus"

With support from Art Council England, we have released a video about our previous production, "Meniscus". The production has been presented at The Place and Rambert in London, November 2019. Our run at Soho, London in July 2020 was sadly proponed until next possible timeframe. 

Click here to watch the video and have a peek at how this highly interactive work with extended choreographic work looks like. Also, hear what the participating artists think about it. 

This video project was premiered with Young Blood Initiative on 12 June 2020.

"Exercises on Displacement 2014-2020"

Tutto Questo Sentire inaugurates its sixth year of activity with the launch of a new audio-visual work narrated by curator Elaine Tam and navigating through five years of site-specific events, residencies and interdisciplinary collaborations.

Click and watch this video, where excerpts of us working with Nhu Xuan Hua and Iris Chan, presenting Xuan's work, "Theatre of Remembrance", with Camden Arts Centre last year. Don't miss out seeing John dancing with heels. 

"Domesticated" by Word of Warning

Together with håb, we have delivered the website, "Domesticated". We designed and illustration this website, which presents itself as a simple digital space, with video works hidden at corners of the flat. 

Come in, have a knock on the door and explore. 

Next year is still hopeful. 

As we are writing reviews for this year, we would like to say thank you to all the collaborators who we've worked with, venues and institutes who presented our shows, funders who awarded us and supporter like you who have been with us this year. Please look forward to a full review on Ghost and John in 2020 which will be released in our first newsletter next year. 

We have been making sourdough bread recently. We learnt a lot about being even more strategic, be patient, have trust in the process and be happy about your progression and achievement.

Plans are made. Proposals are written. Some commissions are promised. Some are still in negotiation. Despite the fact that we are still living in pandemic time, we are lucky to be in a safe space, with peers who look after and uplift each other.

We look forward to 2021 as another year with a lot of creativity, love and hope. 

Here we wish you all, Happy Holidays 🤩