Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture

Comments on the Finalist 

Beyond simply demonstrating how virtual reality serves as a means to explore memory and visions of the future, KINGDOM employs 3D digital space, images from VR headsets, and the shared space between audience and performers to transport everyone into a meticulously choreographed memory space characterized by a never-ending process of compression and decompression through shifting viewpoints and the design of a seemingly infinite stage, floating in a (private) digital kingdom that is constantly collapsing and being reconstructed. This work relies heavily on the performing team’s high level of coordination, with live sound and visual effects precisely synchronized with the performers’ onstage states. Meanwhile, performers wearing headsets need to enhance their sensory engagement to respond to live audiovisual cues. This exemplifies the fruit of their longstanding collaboration. (Commentator / CHEN Hsiang-Wen)

Artwork Introduction  

KINGDOM is an experimental extended reality (XR) performance that explores interdisciplinary co-construction, inviting audiences to revisit overlooked, discarded, or eliminated everyday objects amid the digital flood. This work combines 3D scanning and motion capture technologies within virtual reality (VR), using multiple on-site screens and the dancer’s bodily vocabulary to create an uninhabited digital kingdom from fragmented, liquefied, and incomplete scanned objects, continuously adapting to new perceptions and environments in a digital space that is constantly disintegrating and reassembling.

About the Artist 

CHAO Ting-Ting is a performing artist and a collaborating member of Anarchy Dance Theatre. With a background in contemporary dance, her work emphasizes interdisciplinary creation at the intersection of dance and new media. Her projects center on the body, integrating digital technologies such as motion capture and 3D scanning to explore the possibilities of digital performing arts through interdisciplinary collaboration. Using the dancing body as a starting point, she investigates how bodily performance transforms and extends through the intervention of digital media, paying close attention to the relationships among virtual environments, avatars, and socio-cultural dimensions.  

Founded in 2010, Anarchy Dance Theatre derives its name from the transliteration of the English word “anarchy.” Its creative core is contemporary dance, which it uses to reflect on how human beings are connected to one another. It also integrates technology to delve into philosophical questions about the relationship between humans and technology, as well as the potentials and limits of its use. Centered on bodily awareness, it strives to transcend traditional theatrical forms and explore themes of time, space, objects, and the interaction between humans and society. Its works include theater, dance technology, and installations, and in recent years it has been a frequent presence at major international dance and art festivals.

Production Team

Ting-Ting CHAO x Anarchy Dance Theatre “KINGDOM” 

Concept, Choreographer, Performer｜ Ting-Ting CHAO

VR Content & Interaction Design｜Yi-Ting CHENG 

VR Technologist｜Bo-Yu KO

3D Environment Artist ｜Tzu-An HSU

Lighting Design｜You-Jyun WANG

Set Design ｜Kuan-Nan JIANG

Sound Design｜Hsin-Yu CHANG

Costume Design｜Hsuan KUO 

Stage Manager｜ Yi-Rou HUNG

Visual Technical Coordinator｜Cheng-Ru WU(PB)

Visual Technical Execution｜Jr-Syuan LEE

Master Electrician｜Hung-Yue LIANG

Technical Director｜Chen-Jhih SHEN

Sound Operator｜Po-Hao CHEN

Visual Design｜Hsau-En HSU

Creative Fellowship｜Mei-Ning HUANG

Creative Consultant｜Chieh-Hua HSIEH

Technical Consultant｜Wei-An CHEN（@chwan1）

Arts–Business Partnership & Sustainability Consultant｜Lois PAN

Producer｜ Hsiao-Fan TAI

Ticketing＆Administration Support｜Shu-Han YANG

Still Photographer｜Wei-Chi LIN(work in progress)、Chun-yun LIN

Cinematographer｜Sih-Wei LUO

Production｜Anarchy Dance Theatre

Support｜GRAMM TEK INC. ,Ministry of Culture, Department of Cultural Affair of Taipei City Government, ChinLin Foundation for Culture and Arts

Partnership｜C-LAB Taiwan Sound Lab, Taipei Digital Art Matchmaking Platform, Industrial Technology Research Institute

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