Wen Hui's I AM 60
Wen Hui 文慧’s I Am 60: A Collaborative Colloquium
Presented by the Asian Film & Media Initiative in the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies
Co-sponsored by the Department of Performance Studies
Time: Saturday, December 16
3 pm - 3:45pm Performance Studies Studio Room 612
4:00 pm Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
Wen Hui, internationally acclaimed dancer, choreographer and filmmaker, returns to Tisch to share her recent work since her last visit in 2018.
I AM 60 is the crystallization of Wen Hui’s reflections on her life experience as a woman and artist. She was inspired by the daring representations of women found in a body of silent and early sound films produced by the pioneering studios in Shanghai in the 1930s. These movies exposed social problems, depicted class divide and struggle, and engaged with the pressing issues in gender politics and national culture. In I AM 60, past and present are brought together as women’s bodily experiences of different generations, audio and video recordings, texts, images and oral narratives are condensed and woven into a multimedia documentary theater/dance. The work also engages the burgeoning feminist movement in today’s China, which has confronted with considerable reprisals in recent years.
I Am 60 has had an extensive and critically acclaimed tour in Europe since 2021. This colloquium will commence with a collective movement workshop (30 min), followed by an illustrated presentation with images, video clips and Wen Hui’s live performance drawn from the work. We will also touch on Wen Hui’s latest creation, New Report on Giving Birth (2023).
Professor Zhang Zhen 張真 (Cinema Studies) will join the presentation as dramaturg of I Am 60, and moderate the discussion.
Free and open to the public. RSVP Required.