A CITY WALK AS A WALK
A CITY WALK AS A WALK
CHEN Yining, XU Yixin - Workshop
September 2023
Workshop work with Yining Chen, supported by Handshake 302 Conmmunity Art Space, Urban Flesh and Bones: Rediscovering Shenzhen's Cultural Geography Projecrt by Mary Ann O'donnell).
The embodiment workshops that use bodies to create a site to sensing the city. Combining physical theater and contact improvisation techniques let participants’ bodies to directly experience and discussed the public in community.
Like in opposite way, how the city, land leaves various traces on our body? Imagining the cycle connection of the body and the city through the leading of choreography movement.I proposed inviting local residents to bring their body memories to participate and experience how the city, land and history travel through our bodies and leave footprints in our memories.