Project Stage

“This isn’t background noise❗

It’s the main act — and it happens only once.

On May 9, 6PM–9 PM

Live performances take over the space — unfolding in rhythm, light, sound, and presence.

What sets dramatic performances, films, and visual art exhibitions apart?

Visual art exhibitions offer freedom—you can wander, pause, skip. But works are passively displayed, like objects in a room. Despite their diversity, a distance grows between viewer and artwork. The creative impulse—whether spontaneous or deeply researched—often fades in the static setting.

Starting from this observation, we conceived the idea of Project Stage—a project that evolves over time. what happens when sound, light, moving images, installations, and live performances are activated sequentially, like scenes in a theater—within the context of an exhibition space?

This is the question Project Stage seeks to explore. Through a series of timed activations, shifting atmospheres, and evolving spatial arrangements, we treat the exhibition space not as a static container but as a temporal stage.

After that?

From May 10 to 30 

Monday to Friday 12PM to 6PM

Workshops, screenings, fragments coming soon.”

Artist:

Abbie Coombs @abbie_coombs_, Fan Bangyu @fan_bangyu, Jorge Jobim  @jor.graphy, Liangqi Yao @liangqibabe, Miya Kosowick Mawatari @miyakmawatari, Roman Sheppard Dawson @romanshepdaw, Sarah Duffy @sarahcduffy, Sara Sternberg @merda_seca, Joe Smith @joepeter.sm

Also featured are sound artists:

Engin Eskici @dj_baklava, Hamish Ford, Henry Glover @hgglover , Xiaowan Yi @jazzy_yi, Xixi Wang @xixiwang_2024

Curator:

Mengmeng Luo @modalism12138, karl Xinghao Liang @liangxinghao48

The exhibition is organised by new arts group The Afterpiece.