The Sixth Fuel Factory Interactive Theater “for-giving, for-getting” x “nonuments”

2019-11-15

Two interdisciplinary Media Theater Performances World Premiere

 When
11/15 (Sat)、11/16(Fri)、11/17(Sun) @ 18:30 

Where
The former Imperial Japanese Navy’s Sixth Fuel Factory, Hsinchu Branch（No. 24, Jian-Mei Road, Hsinchu City,）

The transArt NCTU and the Post Theater from Berlin will premiere their collaborative theatrical pieces — “for-giving, for-getting” and “nonuments” in November 15th 2019. Both works delve deep into the strata of historical memories about the former Imperial Japanese Navy’s Sixth Fuel Factory, Hsinchu Branch, thereby disentangling the intertwined strands of Taiwan’s WWII history. Pondering upon the meaning of Paul Ricoeur’s words “forgiveness maybe impossible, and yet, there is forgiveness”, “for-giving, for-getting” carries the dual dialectical implications of “forgetting is for getting; forgiving is for giving.” It argues that one is inexistent once being forgotten! Forgiving is only possible when those who have been consigned to oblivion are being remembered first.
 
With the support of IoTtalk technology and interactive computer program, the AiPOLLING system allows the viewers to vote in real-time through their smartphones and construct digital monuments respectively for Taiwan and Japan in a collective manner. If a WWII monument signals the end of the tragedy of war, the process in which the viewers co-construct the “nonument” through the AiPOLLING system on their smartphones marks the beginning of a new debate:
 
Who is allowed to erect the monument?
Who enjoys the power of discourse?
Who is entitled to write the history?
Is forgiving still possible when history has been dis-remembered?
If for-getting (forgetting is for getting) is an unhealed war wound, is for-giving (forgiving is for giving) a cure for the war trauma, a possibility for fence-mending?
 
Production Teams
transArt NCTU
post theater
IoTtalk NCTU
 
For more information, please visit:
https://www.facebook.com/HsinchuLivingMuseum/ 
https://hclm.nctu.edu.tw/

Note: AiPOLLING is a  voting and data visualization system developed by the IoTtalk team at NCTU specifically for the theatrical piece of “nonuments.”

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