The Great Detour

This performance is a fragmentary witness to the unsolvable detour. The obstructed, unyielding performance artists use their most economical bodies to mark the desolation, planting the lingering resentment and sorrow that permeates the air and their bodies. Bao Nguyen is a skilled guerrilla satirist, whose slightly cruel humor corrodes and adds weight. Claire Alrich’s strips of cloth—oh, flags—can grow out of the body and be torn apart by its own hands… Ni Xin and Hideo’s collaboration is a clash of poetic percussion and absurd, sharp counterpoint, creating an experience that defies categorization. Finally, VILLAGER, as both the child of the universe and its interlocutor and observer, entices invisible waves and the animalistic connections between all things. Since the great detour is a continuous dilemma and the continuous exposure of that dilemma, the spectator is invited to come and walk a short distance along the way.