[Guangzhou] Kc 2024 ‘Adj.’ Tour

Adj. is the abbreviation for adjective and also an expansion that is not defined. In the boundless universe of vocabulary, it is used for expressing degrees from shallow to deep. On the white paper of the world, every description is a unique color particle. These particles, like notes, constantly jump, collide, decompose, and combine in words. It is like a montage editing, a collage form, a word game, a music sampling, and an installation of ready-made materials. People are trying to re-understand and describe all the things they feel and see by means of getting rid of vocabulary, arranging time, and inserting recognized information that needs to be modified. And this feeling and vision all need to be watched and thought about by individuals, that is, a subjective result that is inevitably generated after processing. The editing method, narrative angle, and in a sentence, that is, the selection of adjectives with subjective consciousness.


Adj. is not just a simple modification, but also a carrier of emotions. When we shuttle through different contexts and situations and perceive the surprises and shocks it brings, we are also bound by the program it sets. What kind of adjective should be used to describe each current emotion? In what way should it be expressed? The more complex and changeable the thoughts and emotions are, the more difficult it is to convey them. Even at a certain moment, one will suddenly lose the ability and courage to describe it. One doesn’t know where to start or where to end. Having reading and writing disorders for emotions, unable to capture, pick up, or convey them, one feels a huge panic engulfing every lonely and insignificant individual, confining each word in a paragraph of not large size, and trying to split and reorganize everything to piece together a brand new story and conduct an unconscious self-protection by means of tampering and blurring memories.


Adjectives modify nouns or pronouns. A sentence deeply engraved in our hearts. Who is the pronoun here? Is it Kc? Or is it every one of you? As a certain NPC in this vast game world, various labels are defined on our heads, such as ‘small-town exam grinders’, ‘urban cattle and horses’, ‘lying flat youths’, ‘the Kong Yiji long gown that can’t be taken off’… We who are labeled with various tags are constantly being defined, and we are also defining others at all times invisibly. Perhaps, if we try to make changes, this string of ‘code with errors’ may also run in an unexpected way. Everything in this diverse world has the right to proceed in a way that may not be completely correct.


So, from now on, hand over the right to choose to you. Together with Kc, we who are gathered together, defined by different labels and different descriptions, find our own emotional resonance between notes and words, re-examine our infinite possibilities, and try to run another completely different program.


Open on December 14th, Saturday. The performance starts at 20:00. The exact duration of the show will be determined on-site.


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