MISS

Net project & live performances Artists: Eunice Maurice & Chun-chi Wang

 

Concept:

 

Eunice Maurice and Chun- Chi-Wang have both worked and lived in a variety of countries. Born in Korea, Eunice Maurice was adopted by a Dutch family at an early age and grew up in the Netherlands. She lived and worked in the Netherlands, in the USA, Korea, Japan, Italy and Indonesia and currently lives and works in Berlin. Chun-Chi Wang studied in NYC, lived and worked in London and Paris, and currently resides in Taipei and Berlin. Drawing from their experiences as women "in-between cultures" whose biographies bridge Asia and the West, their project investigates how cultural origin shapes and influences collective memories, ideals, and desires and the consequent feeling of loss that derive from those. Utilizing visuals, sound, text, and spatial movement, their project is a multilayered performance piece based on interviews with participants from all over the world who submitted their MISS story to the MISS website and also on interviews with Asian women in Germany, the Netherlands and Taiwan, who moved away from their home-countries at different stages of their lives. The participants were involved in creating the performances by sharing ideas, directions, and lines of dialogue that the performances used and improvised on.

For this project was a custom computer-controlled system developed that made real-time manipulation of audio and visual material possible during the live performances