In OPEN STUDIO, artists from various disciplines are collaborating with the sound artist, director and stage designer Dimitri de Perrot to explore productions that use sound as a central creative medium. They are developing ideas, perspectives, and artistic approaches: How can sound be used to think, design, narrate?

In ‘Wen Keng We Meet? – On Connection’, the Euro-Asian RRRRRR Collective – comprising Keng Chen, Wen-Chi Liu, Dino Radoncic, Eneas Prawdzic, Nathalie Stirnimann, and Stefan Stojanovic – asks how we can remain connected despite cultural differences, physical distance and conflicts.

Following the desire to see each other again, the Taiwan-based artist Wen-Chi and her mainland Chinese colleague Keng, together with their European collaborators of the RRRRRR Collective, travel to the border that separates them. At its narrowest point, between Xiamen and the island of Kinmen, the distance is just six kilometers. They have three days for this undertaking. Then they must leave again. Will they succeed in meeting one another?

The result is an audio-visual performance situated between documentary theatre and a fictional search into the human need for encounter: a poetic snapshot of a fragmented yet inescapably connected world.

Following the performance on Friday, 30 January at 8 p.m., there will be a sharing.

Information on accessibility and language

• Stepless access

• In spoken English

• Audience situation: There are cushions on the floor for seating; however, chairs and beanbags (which must be reserved) are available for accessibility requirements.

• Sensory stimuli: Partially high volume and deep bass, relatively dark room, and sudden changes in sound. There are balloons on stage, but they should not burst.