Exhibition View of "Falling Exercise" (Projection onto wooden box: 381cm x 214cm x 20cm) and "Help! Help? Help." (Projection onto wooden box: 300cm x 176 cm x 20cm) at Das Weisse Haus in Vienna in 2017 at "Have you ever measured the reality?" “Falling Exercise”, 2016 Isaac Chong Wai Performance at Faith and Terror – Performance Art Festival curated by Bernhard Draz, Anne Hoelck, Tristan Duschamps in Berlin HD loop: 3:06 min and Photo Edition Photo: Viktoria Nowicky The performers fall on the ground all at the same time. When everyone is lying on the ground, the ones who are below other bodies leave the performance area slowly. Meanwhile, the ones who are lying on other bodies have to hold and keep the postures that they are having (imagining that they are lying the on invisible bodies). When they are not able to hold the postures anymore, they leave gradually until no performers are in the performance area. Performers: Naomi Bazini, Stefanie Beyer, Adam Bratko, Isaac Chong Wai, Charlotte Draycott,Julia Falero Morente, Janna Gockel, Felix Haas, Anne Hoelck, Samuel Jung, Ophélie Le Hiress, Rositsa Mahdi, India Roper-Evans, Han Tang, Heiko-Thandeka Ncube, Nikita Volkov, Ada Kai-Ting Yang, Xiaopeng Zhou “Help! Help? Help.”,2016 Isaac Chong Wai Performance at Faith and Terror – Performance Art Festival curated by Bernhard Draz, Anne Hoelck, Tristan Duschamps in Berlin HD loop: 1:53 min and Photo Edition Photo: Viktoria Nowicky What does it mean to help and to be helped? Who should help and who should be helped? In this performance, performers are asked to lie on the ground and raise their hand waiting for people to pull them up. The gesture of reaching for “help” is depicted while the choreography questions the audience if they should “help” or not to “help”. The word “help” is then questioned under the policy formed by the performance and ideology in which people tend to “help” to become the “helper” without knowing what they are “helping.” Performers: Dilan Barkin, Naomi Bechert, Stefanie Beyer,Adam Bratko, Sun Chen, Isaac Chong Wai, Charlotte Draycott, Julia Falero Morente, Janna Gockel, Felix Haas, Anne Hoelck, Samuel Jung, Ophélie Le Hiress, Rositsa Mahdi, India Roper-Evans, Han Tang, Heiko-Thandeka Ncube, Nikita Volkov, T.I.T.S (Roselyn Yap), Ada Kai-Ting Yang, Xiaopeng Zhou Supported by the Burger Collection "Artist Scholarship Program"
