This performance is not only a creative journey between the Inch Dance company and artist Jay Peng, but also an embodied exploration based on the exhibition École du soir.
During a three month period, the exhibition became an incubator for the creation of a site-specific performance. They discussed and related the traumatic legacies of colonialism, migration in modern cities, and the conflicts between collectives and individuals, found present in the images, texts, and sounds of École du soir, to their lived experiences in Shanghai. Their performance, “Most of the Time Is Boring,” combines improvised movement, sound, and spoken word, and it borrows from the “scenes” provided by École du soir as a hosting structure for their performance.
Special thanks to Wang Weile for music improvisation and Wang Jing for design.
In conjunction with École du soir, an exhibition by Christian Nyampeta.
The exhibition École du soir and related events are presented as the fourth season of the ICA’s second artistic research program, Another Knowledge Is Possible (2021-24), exploring neglected and repressed ways of knowing and the complex politics of knowledge decolonization.
