Starting in November 2024, the AUUUUUDITORIUM 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 open call extended to Shanghai-based artists and collectives to use the AUUUUUDITORIUM space for rehearsals and gatherings over the course of five months. Participants will engage in workshops led by three international artists: Bhenji Ra, an Australian Filipina artist working at the intersections of dance, video and community activation; Isaac Chong Wai, a Berlin-based Hong Kong artist using performance, video, installation, photography, and drawing as mediators to investigate contemporary global phenomena; and the Vietnamese German artist Sung Tieu, whose artistic practice spans multiple mediums, including sound installations, video, sculpture, photography, performance and public interventions.
Four local artists or artist groups were selected: Ella Xie, Pan Yingda, Awc Chuwen Wang & Wenchu Ye, and Niaowu Art Group. Occupied the space of AUUUUUDITORIUM in January 2025 with the project Field-ing, Pan brought together a group of collaborators to present a series of programs including workshops, improvised theatres, rehearsals and performances.
At the heart of Pan's project is the week-long workshop “Running and Writing”, in which the participants are encouraged to write together after physical excerises. In the Chinese language, the words "running" and "digging" are both pronounced "pao" and etymologically related to each other. Imitating each other to dig and run, Pan's workshops center on the interplay between words and bodies, and the collective development of the imporvised theathre Field-ing.
2024年11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11月至2025年3月期间使用“讲———堂”进行排练、活动、聚集等。在五个月中他们参与了由三名国际艺术家带领的工作坊。 这些艺术家是:以舞蹈、影像与社区激活的交叉创作展开跨文化与跨代际的实践的澳大利亚菲律宾裔艺术家本吉·拉(Bhenji Ra); 运用表演、视频、装置、摄影和绘画等媒介来探讨当代全球现象的常驻柏林的香港艺术家庄伟(Isaac Chong Wai);以声音装置、视频、雕塑、摄影、表演及公共干预多种媒介,来讨论事实的诠释、现实的检验、混淆的揭示以及对社会控制的越南裔德国艺术家萧崇(Sung Tieu)。
项目召集到的四组艺术家及团体:谢爱澜、潘颖达、王楚雯和叶文楚,以及鸟坞艺术小组。其中,潘颖达的《上场》串联了他在“讲———堂”空间的一个月中与多名共创者轮番/集体上场的表演、身体工作坊、剧场排练等多项事件。
《上场》是“跑与写作”工作坊的集中爆发。“跑与写作”的练习寻求文字和肢体游戏的互文,其参与者在相互模仿“刨”这个单位动作后,旋即投入到运动后的即兴写作——“跑”与“刨”不仅音近且同字源。《上场》最终呈现的剧场不仅由潘颖达个人的工作发展而来,也包含了其工作坊的密切参与者的语境注入。