This workshop started with the simple things and from them, carried on an exploration of the secrets of the world—especially our own secrets. Documentation is not just text: in this era of material plenitude, our archives are also the objects we own, use, and throw away. They are the testimony and record of our relationship with this world. But we seek to look beyond things in their simple facticity, toward the unknown or uncanny dimensions awaiting discovery, and toward their unfolding into realms beyond.

This theatre workshop facilitated the sharing of knowledge, emotions, and imaginations, in order to lead the participants to different perspectives on life today, the environment, and the material world. This awareness may help to provide some defense against the casual forgetting and greedy aggression that fills our daily life.

STARTING REALITIES

Secrets of Useless Things

Zhao Chuan  •  13th–15th December 2019

This workshop started with the simple things and from them, carried on an exploration of the secrets of the world—especially our own secrets. Documentation is not just text: in this era of material plenitude, our archives are also the objects we own, use, and throw away. They are the testimony and record of our relationship with this world. But we seek to look beyond things in their simple facticity, toward the unknown or uncanny dimensions awaiting discovery, and toward their unfolding into realms beyond.

This theatre workshop facilitated the sharing of knowledge, emotions, and imaginations, in order to lead the participants to different perspectives on life today, the environment, and the material world. This awareness may help to provide some defense against the casual forgetting and greedy aggression that fills our daily life.