One Table Two Chairs is a standardized set design in traditional Chinese theatre where different arrangements symbolize different scenes, such as an office or living room. Danny Yung has used One Table Two Chairs since 1997 as a platform to initiate creative cross-cultural collaborations, commissioning over 100 contemporary stage works. Zuni Icosahedron is an experimental Hong Kong theatre company that has produced over 180 productions exploring theatre traditions and technologies through performances, arts education, and international cultural exchange.
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1. One Table Two Chairs
Cultural Exchange Project
ITI Music Theatre NOW International meeting
J?nk?ping, Sweden, 22 ¨C 26 May 2013
Danny Yung
2. One Table Two Chairs (1T2C) is a standardized set design in
traditional Chinese theatre.
18. One Hundred Years of Solitude 10.0 ¨C Cultural Revolution
(2011 Hong Kong; 2012 Singapore)
Zuni Icosahedron, founded in 1982, is a Hong Kong based international
experimental theatre company.
19. Zuni has produced more then 180 original productions of alternative theatre and
multimedia performances...
One Hundred Years of Solitude 10.0 ¨C Cultural Revolution
(2011 Hong Kong; 2012 Singapore)
20. ...and has been active in video, sound experimentation and installation arts¡
One Hundred Years of Solitude 10.0 ¨C Cultural Revolution
(2011 Hong Kong; 2012 Singapore)
21. ¡as well as in areas of arts education, arts criticism, cultural policy research and
international cultural exchange.
The Trial (1994)
22. Over the years, Zuni has been invited to more than 30 cities in Europe, Asia, and
America for cultural exchange and performances.
The Trial (1994)
23. Zuni is one of the nine major professional arts companies in Hong Kong...
The Trial (1994)
24. and has established itself as a premiere experimental theatre locally and
internationally.
Two or Three Things You Want to Know About Hong Kong (2004)
25. Since 2009, Zuni becomes Hong Kong Cultural Centre¡¯s venue partner, and
produces a series of theatre works and outreach education programmes.
Two or Three Things
You Want to Know
About Hong Kong
(2004)
26. Theatre is a real time real space experience.
Two or Three Things You Want to Know About Hong Kong (2004)
27. In the theatre, we laugh, cry, think, and experience all the vicissitudes of life
together in the same space and in the same period of time.
Corbu and Kahn (2009)
28. Zuni Theatre starts with exploring all of the possibilities in the theatre ¨C
Corbu and Kahn (2009)
29. traditions and technologies, dialogues and movements, politics and entertainment,
history and philosophy, sense and sensibility¡
Corbu and Kahn (2009)
30. Theatre is not life, but life can be enlightened by theatre ¨C
Hua-yen S¨±tra (2007, 2008, 2013 Hong Kong; 2008 Taipei)
31. regaining lost feelings and memories, recounting the good and bad of the world,
searching for various possibilities of living and life.
Hua-yen S¨±tra (2007, 2008, 2013 Hong Kong; 2008 Taipei)
32. This is Zuni Theatre; this is the power of real time, real space of theatre.
Hua-yen S¨±tra (2007, 2008, 2013 Hong Kong; 2008 Taipei)
33. Avant-gardes are elite warriors who lead the troops to explore the future.
Tears of Barren Hill
(2008 Hong Kong; 2009 Yokohama; 2009 Rotterdamse; 2009 Singapore)
34. Avant-garde art is a pursuit of ideal and a mission to reinvent culture:
Tears of Barren Hill
(2008 Hong Kong; 2009 Yokohama; 2009 Rotterdamse; 2009 Singapore)
35. to revisit the past, to criticize the present, to subvert the mainstream, to guide
thinking, to inspire imagination,
Tears of Barren Hill
(2008 Hong Kong; 2009 Yokohama; 2009 Rotterdamse; 2009 Singapore)
36. ¡to resist the kitsch and the superficial, and to create experiences that reflect
intellectuality, humanity and diversity.
Looking for Mies ¨C God is in the Details (2009, 2011)
37. Avant-garde art is of relative force of constructive revolution which pushes for
social, political, and aesthetic evolution.
Looking for Mies ¨C God is in the Details (2009, 2011)
38. It is neither entertainment consumption nor political propaganda, nor is it purely
an artistic behaviour.
Looking for Mies ¨C God is in the Details (2009, 2011)
39. It interacts with the society and influences social development.
A Tale of The Forbidden City (2009, 2010, 2013 Hong Kong; 2012 Suzhou)
40. Zuni¡¯s avant-garde art looks for all boundaries in social systems and artistic value,
A Tale of The Forbidden City (2009, 2010, 2013 Hong Kong; 2012 Suzhou)
41. ¡and challenges all sorts of ideological bottom lines; through experimentations in
different areas ¨C
A Tale of The Forbidden City (2009, 2010, 2013 Hong Kong; 2012 Suzhou)
42. ¡creative theatre, installation arts, cultural exchanges and policy initiatives,
exhibits a progressive and pioneering force.
Book of Ghosts (2009)
43. ¡°¡their success was based on meticulous preparation and creative talent.¡±
¡ª Professor Jonathan D. Spence, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus,
Department of History, Yale University
Book of Ghosts (2009)
44. ¡°Zuni's efforts in promoting and instigating developments in arts and culture have
been highly remarkable.¡± ¡ª Hans-Georg Knopp, Secretary-General of Goethe-Institute
Book of Ghosts (2009)
45. "¡the essential cultural asset of Hong Kong." ¡ª Lin Hwai-min, Founder and
Artistic Director of Cloud Gate Dance Company
Stage Sisters (2010, 2012)
46. "The experimental theatre of Zuni has become an exchange platform for exploring
spirits of humanism.¡± ¡ª Toshio Mizohata, Programme Director of BankART 1929
Stage Sisters (2010, 2012)
47. "Nourishing generation after generation of cutting-edge talent."
¡ª Professor Zhang Longxi, Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of
Letters, History and Antiquities
Stage Sisters (2010, 2012)