Porcupine (when we cry, the ribbons fall)

Created and Performed by: Reggie Yip (in collaboration with FURNACE HK)

Porcupine (when we cry, the ribbons fall), a live experimental performance by emerging Hong Kong-based artist Reggie Yip, invites audiences into a ritual of unravelling, exploring concepts of self-hood and societal perception through visceral, immersive experience. This creation delves into the inner landscape of the subject’s lens, as shaped—and distorted—by delusions and paradoxical surreality in their perception through the juxtaposition of space and objects as symbolic entities. 

Rooted in a myth of origin (a surreal character with “spikes” whose nightly routine of tears turns to ‘floods’, as symbolized through the subverted use of domestic items). Yip’s work explores and reflects upon the rituals we enact for self-preservation and the external, internal and intersectional forces that shape those rituals. It stands as a playful, imaginative nod to the complexity of self-protection, and the surreality that sits at the heart of our vivid inner lives and perspectives.