Workshop : Peng Hsu + Esteban Donoso – BBR 碎碎唸: When Trivialities Might Move

Objective

In Mandarin, 碎碎唸, Broke Broke Recitation, is commonly used to describe how women (or men who are deemed a bit loser-like) chatter nonstop about mundane trivialities. We are drawn to this kind of language, because we believe that BBR happens when an experience has no keyword, and to say it requires saying what surrounds it, what surrounds its surroundings, and what surrounds the surroundings of the surroundings. In this way, BBR gives rise to an ever-expanding landscape of experiencing, a landscape formed through constantly missing “the point.” This workshop is curious about experiences that require such a way of talking, and what kind of performance method such language invites, or demands.

Content

In this workshop, we invite participants to bring an experience or story of this kind: one that cannot be made short, a story that, in order to be properly explained, requires extensively explaining what surrounds it.
We will turn this experience or story into a text, and together discuss the possibilities of its continued expansion, and of course, why it expands in this particular way.
Then, using objects, through guided collaboration, acting and movement improvisation exercises, we will explore different ways of moving and performing that suit the different grammar of the experience’s proliferation.

𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 : English

📷 Alvin Sauerberg