Bloodlines 血脉
(work-in-progress)
Lead Artists: Cinthia Chen & Sim Yan Ying “YY”
January 2021 on ohyay.co as part of Fault Line Theatre’s Irons in the Fire series
Bloodlines 血脉 is an ongoing artistic investigation of the Chinese identity by six multidisciplinary artists across the Sinosphere. Over the past six months, our collective has gathered online from our individual homes in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and the United States to share in our perspectives and artistic practices. This work interweaves our personal and family histories of migration and dissent, in an effort to trace the volatility and promise of Chineseness as an individual, cultural, and global identity.
Collaborators
Cinthia Chen (she/her): multidisciplinary artist from Taiwan based in New York
Sim Yan Ying "YY" (she/her): theatre creator, director & performer from Singapore
Andrew Chan Xiyong (he/him): actor & creator from Hong Kong
Annie Jin Wang (she/her): Chinese-American dramaturg based in New York
Kiwi Chan (she/her): theatre & movement artist from Hong Kong
Sam Lu (he/him): Chinese-Canadian sound artist based in Shanghai
Stage Management: Lim Shien Hian (he/him) from Singapore
Photos by Sim Yan Ying “YY”
Case Study
Bloodlines 血脉 was a central case study in Alysa Leung’s thesis paper, “Connecting the Disconnected: New Media Dramaturgy and Migrant Identities in Virtual Migrant Theatre”. Read more