Starting in October 2024, the AUUUUUDITORIUM program launched the project Becoming Rehearsal, a process-oriented and practice-based initiative aimed at broadening the discourse on performative practices. At the core of Becoming Rehearsal is an invitation extended to Shanghai-based artists and collectives to use the AUUUUUDITORIUM space for rehearsals, activities, and gatherings over the course of five months. Participants will engage in workshops led by three international artists: Bhenji Ra, Isaac Chong Wai and Sung Tieu.
On January 11st, artists Awc Chuwen Wang and Wenchu Ye and their collaborators conducted the performance Chitchat followed by a forum.
“Chitchat” was a series of event centered around the clinical condition of chronic pain, focusing on the narration of individual pain experiences.
Chronic pain is an ambiguous yet urgent condition. In everyday life, communication and sense of compassion regarding prolonged pain become even more fragile and inadequate under the tug-of-war of time and personal relationships. Learning how to live with chronic pain had to become both the focal point and the conclusion of discussions during treatment. Throughout personal experience, the lack of empathy between oneself and the external world requires patients to constantly reassess their body and the perception of it, engage in self-reflection, and express themselves to gain recognition, understanding, and sympathy.
The performance and forum held in AUUUUUDITORIUM aimed to explore following topics: What is it like to experience chronic pain? How to endure the pain while living a life, and under what circumstances, timeframes, motivations do we choose to talk about it? How to communicate painfulness with other people, and what kind of responses we hope to receive from others? Are we changed by pain? How does it reshape our daily identities, our lives, our self-perception, and our relationships with others?
2024年10月起，“讲---堂”发起了“成为排演”项目。 该项目以过程为导向、以实践为基础，旨在拓宽表演性实践的讨论。“成为排演”的核心内容是邀请常驻上海的艺术家/团体在2024年10月至2025年2月期间使用“讲---堂”进行排练，活动，和聚集等。在五个月中他们会参与由三名国际艺术家带领的工作坊，他们分别是本吉·拉（Bhenji Ra），庄伟（Isaac Chong Wai）与Sung Tieu。
1月11日下午，作为召集到的四组本地艺术家及团体之一，艺术家王楚雯与叶文楚与各位合作参与者在“讲———堂”为观众带来了《Chitchat》行为论坛剧场与讨论会。
《Chitchat》是一系列由慢性疼痛这一临床疾病展开，围绕个体疼痛经历的阐述而展开的系列活动。
慢性疼痛是一种暧昧却迫切的疾病，日常生活中对于漫长疼痛本身的交流与共情在时间长度与人情深度的拉锯下则显得更加单薄匮乏。在治疗中，如何与它共处往往被迫成为讨论的重点和终点。在主观的体验中，自我与外界共情的缺失使患者需要不断重新观察自己身体与感知，进行自我审视与表达以获得正视、理解和共情。
通过本次在讲堂的活动，我们探索了如下问题：日常疼痛的经历是怎样的？我们如何与疼痛共处，又在什么样的时间、场景与原因的驱动下选择沟通疼痛？我们如何沟通疼痛，又希望通过沟通获得他人怎样的回应？我们会被疼痛改变吗？它是如何在我们的身份日常中让我们重新构建生活、自我认知和与他人的关系？
