Day 3: Finals | Performative Experiments by Y1 students
Welcome to the performances of our Y1 students! DAY 3 : Performative experiments by Qiyun Zheng, Eleftheuria Sokratous, Feli Navvaro
Time & Location
05 Jul 2023, 17:30 – 19:30
Theatrium, ArtEZ, University of the Arts, Onderlangs 9, 6812 CE Arnhem, Netherlands
About the Event
Simplified Chinese by Qiyun Zheng
15:30 Theatrium (Durational Pre-performance )
17:30 Zaal 3 (Performance)
汉字(Hàn Zì) - Chinese characters are a combination of graph, meaning, and sound since the 13th century BC. In the 19th century, the traditional characters were blamed for China’s economic problems. The first modern Chinese simplification list was issued in 1964 after discussions of completely abolishing Chinese characters. In 1982, with popularizing the standard spoken Chinese being written into the constitution, dialects were noticeably dying.
In this performance, and through conversations in different Chinese dialects with her grandmothers born in the 1940s, who witnessed the simplification and the switch from Russian-heat to English-heat; with her mother born in the 70s who studied Russian in university but couldn’t afford studying abroad; Qiyun, born in 2001 who grew up unaware of this language revolution history, and graduated from English-Chinese Translation BA last year, gives an ode to what is/could have been lost through simplification,…