Puzzling Home 家的形狀 by Ghost and John, Michael and Jane
Performance to Camera commissioned by Queer Arts Projects, Xavier de Sousa, Anahí Saravia Herrera and Alessandra Cianetti for performingborders 2023
Experience the full performance by clicking here
Queer Art Projects and performingborders responded to this commission through a conversation held in May 2023, to see this response alongside the performance to camera, see HERE.
Two travellers arrive at a black and white sandy beach. Carried with them are all shapes of all sizes, holding visions of their former lives. These memories are mismatched and misaligned, yet all together form a picture we fantasise as “home”.
Accompanied by a poem built up by collaging Cantopop lyrics, this performance-to-camera work looks at the figurative of live performances’ ephemerality and the disappearance of home. We witnessed how meanings break and disintegrate in the face of feelings. With shared lived experiences in activism and migration, we form a puzzle designed to be disassembled.
Let heartbreaks be sufferable
Production credits: Concept: Ghost and John, Michael and Jane Film Editing: Michael Mui Ting Fai Sound Mixing: Ghost Chan Poem Collage and Translation: Jane Lam, John Chan Cinematography: Ivan Wong and his film crew Body Paint: Lau Hiu Tung Performance: Ghost and John