Who’s Hung Tung
8/16 Tue 19:30
8/17 Wed19:30
8/18 Thu 19:30
8/19 Fri 19:30
8/20 Sat 19:30
8/21 Sun 19:30
Installation Open to the Public at designated times
2011/8/19-2011/8/21 (Fri-Sun) 14:00-17:00
2011/8/22-2011/8/25 (Mon-Thu) 14:00-19:00
2011/8/26-2011/8/28 (Fri-Sun) 14:00-22:00
Venue｜Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Warehouse 1
Ticket Price｜660
80 minutes with no intermission
No late seating.
In Chinese, with English text to hand out at the opening performance
After-performance discussion in Chinese at the opening performance
Performed by｜The Puppet and Its Double
Artistic Director / Director｜CHENG Chia-yin
Stage Designer /Art Director｜TSENG Man-tung
Costume Designer｜LIN Ching-ru
Lighting Designer｜WANG Tien-hung
Music Designer｜ HUANG Si-nong
Puppet Designer｜LIANG Mong-han, HUNG Jui-hsia
Conception｜TSENG Yan-ting, LIU Yu-jane, CHOW Ling-chih, KUO Liang-ting
Forty years ago, Hung Tung, an illiterate man in the countryside of Tainan, began to paint at the age of fifty. His painting was filled with invented words and powerful originality, catching the eyes of the nation in an instance. Now, forty years have gone by and “Hung Tung” becomes a forgotten name. Does it mean that we have lost a peculiar world of fantasy?
As a response, The Puppet and Its Double announces the project Who’s Hung Tung. With this project we hope to recover Hung Tung’s name and his mystery. We start with his wild painting and open a journey of experimental puppetry across boundaries. This project explores the inner world of Hung Tung’s painting, making use of colorful fragments to express the creative instant. It also weaves the dream and the little universe of fantasy of life, wandering between painting and theater.
HUNG Tung
HUNG Tung was born in the countryside of Tainan County and originally named HUNG Chu-toe. Due to the destitution of his family, he was forced to make a living by doing labor jobs instead of going to school. In 1970, on his fiftieth birthday, he felt an irrepressible desire to paint out of nowhere. After begging his wife for her approval, he started to learn painting from a teacher. From then on, there was nothing in his life but family and painting.
In 1972, HUNG Tung held an exhibition of his works in front of the Nankunshen Temple. His style of mysterious text painting and bold colors caught the attention of Echo Magazine and other media, who gave him extensive news coverage. The solo exhibition at the U.S.I.S. Lincoln Center, Taipei, in 1976 further pushed the “HUNG Tung Frenzy Trend” to the apex. However, modest and simple as he was, HUNG Tung detested the burden and gain so much that he lived as reclusive in the countryside and continued with his creation, while his insistence on not selling any paintings led to poverty and loneliness in his later life. On February 23, 1987, he died in his sleep at the age of sixty-seven in his house at Nankunshen
After his death, Hung Tung’s paintings became hot properties for collectors and have become the important works at international auctions in recent years, as his paintings and unique biography make a legend resounding in the world.
The Puppet and Its Double Theater
The Puppet and Its Double Theater was launched in September 1999. This group is dedicated to an experimental approach and a belief that all possible things can be formed into puppets, exploring the possibilities of puppetry in modern theater. With this belief and this dedication, the group puts efforts to expand a room for modern puppetry in contemporary performance art. The Puppet and Its Double Theater is known for filling puppets with souls and looking into the interactions between real persons and puppets so as to find new interpretations of puppet performance. The group incorporates various forms of puppetry, including glove puppets, string puppets, rod puppets, table-top puppets; its performance also draw techniques and inspirations from shadow theater and co-staging actors and puppets. With professional and delicate puppetry skills, creative design, and poetic presentation on stage, The Puppet and Its Double Theater brings forth an imaginary space that humans alone cannot realize.
Director Chia-yin CHENG
Head of The Puppet and Its Double. MFA in Puppet Arts, University of Connecticut, U.S.A. Chia-yin CHENG has served as playwright and director in many modern puppet plays and experiments her cross-cultural approaches and cross-disciplinary aesthetics in those plays. She was acknowledged with The Puppet and Its Double in 2002 as one of the best 10 performance in Taishin Arts Award with the play I Am Another Yourself. The idiosyncratic experimental approach in this play creatively was a quest of possible dialogues between human/puppet play and the audience. Her works have been invited frequently in international events. She helps organize international festivals; she also serves as lecturer in puppetry lessons.
Art Director and Stage Designer Man-tung TSENG
Mr. Tseng is a designer of art and space active in both Hong Kong and Taiwan. He was awarded the Best Artist in the category of Drama in Hong Kong Arts Development Awards, 2008. Tseng is known for his minimalist yet highly imaginative and magical set design, creating unique and inventive stages in forms such as drama, Environmental Theater, musical, ballet, modern dance, traditional drama, and opera. His recent works include Der Sch?nste Moment with the Puppet and Its Double, 2012 with Mobius Strit Theatre, and Shan Hai Jing with Golden Bough Theatre.
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