14 發光的城市 A R O U N D T O W N FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 • TAIPEI TIMES ong Kong director Mathias Woo (胡恩 Louis Kahn exerted considerable influence 威) has some pretty definite ideas about on 20th century architecture. One of Kahn’s contemporary performance art. approaches to space was to allow buildings to On the current training of theater blend in with the setting, rather than the other Hprofessionals: archaic. On Robert Wilson’s I La way around. It is a philosophy that Woo applies to Galigo: multicultural trash. On Hong Kong’s the stage. cultural landscape: largely barren. On Asian art “The space influences the set, not the other way festivals like the one that brought him to Taiwan: around. Typically, in a more traditional performance, too preoccupied with establishing a name for the set will not change from venue to venue … But themselves on the international theater map. this work is very interesting because it can adapt to While Woo might be accused of biting the hand different environments — it’s not fixed.” that feeds him, there is no doubt that his Woo originally envisioned the work as Above, Tiffany Hsu is playing it safe with Ethan Ruan. approach to theater has garnered plenty a multimedia-musical work with musicians Below, Coco Chiang is helping make the bronzed look of attention both in Asia and overseas. replacing actors on the stage. more popular in Taiwan. PHOTOS: TAIPEI TIMES His much anticipated The Life and “When we were developing the music we chose Times of Louis I. Kahn debuts a jazz concert format, with a little classical thrown than Ruan (阮經天) and seems to have turned to tonight at Taipei’s Zhongshan Hall. in because we feel that Kahn is both serious and Tiffany Hsu (許瑋甯) are the abundantly endowed All three performances have sold out. classical but on the other hand he talks about joy E an on-again off-again lingerie model Wang Yu-fei “The training of performing and playfulness,” he said. couple that people just (王毓菲), better known as artists and performing technicians After reviewing the sound recordings of love to talk about, probably Hsiung Hsiung (熊熊). For are still in the middle ages and there Kahn’s lectures, however, Woo added an actor because Ruan always seem the record, Wang is said to is no platform for experimentation — played by Hong Kong television celebrity Kam on the verge of going off the have a 32F cup-size, and in formal institutions,” he said in an Kwok Leung (甘國亮) — who speaks lines culled rails with yet another bimbo. Next magazine suggests interview with the Taipei Times. from Kahn’s lectures and notes. As such, the The couple were spotted that this is more than “(Whereas) the conventional concept of work is as much a lecture by and about Kahn as by Apple Daily down in sufficient reason for Chen’s theater focuses on human beings on stage, it is a multimedia performance investigating the Kenting last weekend, change of heart. Wang is I’m very interested in non-narrative dramatic relationship between space, light and sound. and while they continue said to be generous with structure. It could be presenting different Although Hong Kong’s money-is-god ethos is a to strenuously deny that her charms, and according ideas; it could be a lecture; it could be a stumbling block to creating a vibrant performance they are together, Hsu was to Next she is a well-known discussion on a specific topic. Multimedia art scene, Woo says the very fact that it lacks sporting a contraceptive presence on the Internet, technology allows us to create a new form an institutionalized establishment allows for patch with her black bikini, appearing in various that is an interaction between images and considerable experimentation. which had the expected photo sites. A delightful space and light and sound.” “Hong Kong [is] in a unique situation because effect of whipping up image of Wang holding a With The Life and Times of Louis I. high art is not very strong, unlike the [US] and media curiosity, and the NT$50 piece between her Kahn, Woo uses a lecture format in a mul- Europe. In Hong Kong, anything goes,” he said. two where tracked down pendulous protuberances, timedia setting infused with jazz and clas- The Life and Times of Louis I. Kahn will be to a guesthouse they one of many images on Philosophy sical music played live by two musicians. performed at Zhongshan Hall (台北市中山堂), 98 were sharing. Apple Daily www.g-years.com, a Web Yenping S Rd, Taipei City (台北市延平南路98號), thought this shockingly forum, is recommended for Mathias Woo’s The Life and Times of Louis I. Kahn is a tonight and tomorrow at 7:30pm and tomorrow inconsiderate behavior on anyone who shares Next multimedia panegyric to the work and philosophy of 20th at 2:30pm. the part of Ruan and Hsu, magazine’s breast fixation. century architect Louis I. Kahn. PHOTOS COURTESY OF TAIPEI ARTS FESTIVAL — NOAH BUCHAN especially when they try Carrying on the theme gets the drama so hard to avoid the media of the body beautiful, Coco spotlight in Taipei. The Chiang’s (蔣怡) success in fashionable pair also got the basketball romance their stories in a muddle Hot Shot (籃球火) is helping TOP FIVE MANDARIN ALBUMS AUG. 22 TO AUG. 28 when questioned by the make the bronzed look treatment media after taking to the more popular in white 梁靜茹 今天情人節 stage this week at Paul skin-obsessed Taiwan. Dark 1 Fish Leong ( ) and Today is Valentine’s Day ( ) with 17.62 percent of sales Smith and Ferragamo skin began to register on catwalk shows. This all the style charts with the 2 Aska Yang (楊宗緯) and Star! Start! Live Concert (星空傳奇) with 10.9% seems rather disingenuous appearance of Guatemalan- 蕭敬騰 蕭敬騰 given Ruan’s reputation and Taiwanese model Liz 3 Jam Hsiao ( ) and Jam Hsiao ( ) with 7.29% his long association with Yang’s (楊莉思) and her Hsu, but the Apple Daily is involvement with singer 4 Kan Kan (康康) and Grey, the Sequal (灰色．續曲) with 6.69% relentless, to misquote the David Tao (陶吉吉), and is Air Supply song, in “making being reinforced by the Nicky Lee (李玖哲) and No, Perfect (不，完美) with 3.36% news out of nothing at all.” relentless barrage of images 5 ALBUM CHART COMPILED FROM G-MUSIC (WWW.G-MUSIC.COM.TW), BASED ON RETAIL SALES Chen Chu-he (陳楚河), a of Janet Hsieh (謝怡芬), host co-star with Ruan on the of Fun Taiwan, whose hit TV series To Love You career has blossomed Is My Destiny (命中注定我 recently following her [ EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT ] 愛你), is also keeping the romance with her manager paparazzi busy at all hours Li Ching-bai (李景白). Tonight, tomorrow and Sunday at Wind, Feeling Bassoon Concerto (低音 scheduled for tomorrow evening, (女巫店), followed by a solo acoustic of the night. Chen has been While Pop Stop is sure 7:30pm 管協奏曲《風，情》) by Shi Chieh- but Sunday features the second performance by Rukai singer and getting plenty of coverage that the spike in Hsieh’s Theater NT$350 tickets are available by yung (史擷詠). installment of Come Together, guitarist Gelresai (陳世川) of Echo for his recent, tempestuous exposure it due totally to A family falls apart after the death calling (09) 2731-6048 Sunday at 3:30pm (Hsinchu) and Change — Who Are You? (合體!變 GS (艾可菊斯). Tomorrow folk singer liaison with Ella Chen (陳嘉 natural talent, there are of the family matriarch in Short One Wednesday at 7:30pm (Taipei) 身!Who Are You?), an eclectic lineup Huang Chien-wei (黃建為) takes 樺) of the girl-group S.H.E, others in the entertainment Player Theater Troupe’s (三缺一劇團) Formosa (島上) is a narrative-driven Hsinchu Municipal Auditorium (新 consisting of punk band Random (隨 to the stage. Jazzy/bluesy act Kukao but now his attention industry who seem less latest work An Obituary Written play that examines the enormous 竹市文化局演藝廳), 17, Tungta Rd Sec 性), pop-rockers Lumei (露魅), hip- (鼓號大樂隊) plays on Thursday. coy about getting a little by Everybody (大家一起寫訃文). sociopolitical changes that have 2, Hsinchu City (新竹市東大路二段 hop group Living Force (存活勢力), 7, Ln 56, Xinsheng S Rd Sec 3, Taipei help from a friend. Little Crown Art Center Theater (皇冠小劇 occurred on Taiwan over the past 30 17號); National Concert Hall, Taipei and hard-rock band Rule Yell (如意). City (台北市新生南路三段56巷7號). 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