Part ritual, part performance art, part colonial history inscribed on the body, blood run investigates my Han Chinese colonizer and Taiwanese plains indigenous heritage within the context of larger political histories. Combining experimental video, dance, and poetic text, the work asks: “What is the difference between an immigrant and a colonizer?” “How do the colonizer and colonized live inside the same body?” “When does survival require disappearance?”  blood run asks what hidden histories are contained in the body, while poignantly acknowledging the impossibility of fully reclaiming what has been lost.  This new version of blood run creatively integrates written Chinese and spoken Mandarin for a more layered, complex multilingual experience; I’m grateful to Tasaw Lu, 蔡亦修, and Yuping Hsu for their translation assistance.

Kuandu Arts Festival

Manfei Dance Studio Theater

Taipei National University of the Arts

October 26-27, 2017, 7:30 pm

https://kdaf.tnua.edu.tw/2017/program/blood.html