Art as chronicler, counselor & consoler
As its name implies, the project brought together choreographers, composers, dancers and video artists to conduct workshops within different art, culture and folk communities in Xiamen, re-imagining the ideas of themselves, others and urban living, via contact improvisation, an approach to dance that emphasizes spontaneity.
Participants included children, teenagers, teachers, volunteers, villagers and disabled people from charity and cultural organizations all over Xiamen.
After six workshops at diverse locations, a final community co-creation performance brought participants from different communities together that was livestreamed on Aug 8.
Inclusiveness is about bringing people together, Ge says.
"We must change the prevailing way of cognition, via art or popularization of new concepts. It's very important that we no longer condescend to people with needs, taking for granted that they require our help. Everybody in some ways has deficiencies of their own, some visible and others not.
"Inclusiveness means not to label others, define them or objectify them. It means to return to the origin of equality, to see yourself and others through the innermost being."
