Practicing Live

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Taipei-based Yu Cheng-Ta’s hilarious performance adapted a playful approach to language and his concept of “living theater.” Yu walked around on stage addressing and interacting with personalities on screen in his latest video, “Practicing Live.” During the performance, the audience could slowly decipher that within the video: Yu invited a select group of people to rehearse and then act in a play that he filmed using different camera angles. Real life art professionals played characters in the family instead of actors. Each role overlapped with each participant’s real-life identity, creating tension and uncovering long-hidden realities and dynamics that today’s young artists must face in the art world.