As its name indicates, the camera only captures one part of this performance. Crawling on the ground, drawing coordinates onto my naked torso, jumping and dancing spontaneously… all these actions were happening off the camera. Responding to Peter Brook’s remarkable book Empty Space (1968), Interval (2020) is aimed to explore the dynamics between space, objects and performer/audience.

The initial idea begins with performing without spectators. Therefore, staging the work by setting the location at a cliff in the early morning to validate that there would be no other human beings within sight. Inspired by John Cage’s Imaginary Landscape No.4 and 4’33”, we hear a soundtrack before witnessing the panorama, the tinny sounds of a radio; birdsong, the wind, and then the performer appears as a lone figure moving across the space, picking up and dialling through the stations of a radio. By decentralising the human in this performance, an equal trinity of nature, human and objects corresponds to the idea of Cosmo-centrism. Particularly, during the period of Covid-19, Interval implies a world becoming bereft of humans where communication itself dwindles. The object – a small radio connects the human to the immensity of the landscape.