LinZhang & Feng Jiangzhou: Floating City, Fleeting Life
UCCA, Beijing, China
2010.6

Floating City, Fleeting Life

Floating City, Fleeting Life is a digital performance play that China’s CCTV media associate-company produces in cooperation, with the producer Zhang Xu, the director Feng Jiangzhou and Lin Zhang. This digital performance is seen in multiple places such as the Chinese National Theater, Hangzhou New Museum’s opening ceremony and the UCCA Museum. The play recalls people’s living status in the urban cities in China. The play runs through five chapters: it is concerned with the destruction of the city, and each individual’s requests, needs and wastes. The rise of the city assembles over a thousand years of human civilization, and the people’s wisdom embodies numerous individual desires and dreams. The city's construction and development provide its existence, but also increase the value of life with conditions and opportunities, as well as witnesses the achievement of personal aspirations and dreams. It is a city built by people to unite the individual to make dreams. In the meanwhile, it could be quietly letting the greedy flames spread. Thus, year after year, the building appears to no longer exist, and what is left is only waste and destruction. Development is beginning to become difficult, as it is leaving behind only the struggles and trade-offs. It is the same land, with the same city, although it may achieve many beautiful dreams, but it cannot prevent the breeding of greed. When individuals re-examine the use of the land and the city individuals, there is endless waste that is dangerous, but also they do not feel the difference between construction and destruction of thousands of insurmountable miles. How does man achieve a balance between his endless desires and limited resources? How does man choose a beautiful dream with the grim reality? With these thoughts and doubts, accompanied by the audience's assumptions and conjectures,Floating City, Fleeting Life is performed on the contemporary digital stage.