CHINAME _theater version Shanghai

CHINAME is a theatre project Xiao Ke x Zi Han launched in 2018. The two artists began discussing personal identity during their wandering life experiences. The exploration of identity is a long and complex process, and the definition of identity is different based on different backgrounds, such as sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, and modern and contemporary international economics and politics. Against a fluid world landscape backdrop, artists seek to reflect on boundaries and community from individual anxieties.

The impact of daily labelling on individual identity can be encountered everywhere. Xiao Ke and Zi Han established cognitive exchanges with different groups of people through a series of different forms of project output. The two artists tried to find commonalities at different levels through face-to-face communication, while also caring for the understanding of differences.

If the self wants to know itself, it needs to observe through others outside the self, and this is no exception for any individual or cultural identity. However, what the self sees is not the real other, but the mirror image of the self, that is, an "other" constructed and interpreted by the self

This time at the West Bund Museum in Shanghai, Xiao Ke x Zi Han launched the theatre work in the form of a game to find the answer to "Who am I?" in the game. In the collective flow relationship, individuals find their place as the purpose of the game and launch a collective creation presentation.

They seem to be doing one stubborn thing: activating a series switches of discussion.