Vanishing 2.0

Inspired in part by the repetitive patterns of our everyday rituals, Vanishing 2.0 invites the audience to cook three dishes: whether delicious, bizarre, or reminiscent of home. This hour-long interactive performance is a cooking and dining game that explores longing and loss through the diaspora experience in a communal way.

When the strangeness of the drifting present begins to swallow the self once anchored in memory, or when the disorientation becomes coils tight around the alienated body, foreign thought, fragmented speech – what does it mean to live within, or beyond, the entanglement of vanishing and being trapped? As “cultural outsiders”, when our identity is always somewhere in
between, how can we grasp and ground our existence through creating, making, and imagining?

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In Vanishing 2.0, kitchen becomes the stage, theater becomes a space between ritual and play, and the steam rising from the pots reveals the imprint of migration. We who live far from home begin to cook to find home. Among pots and pans, we linger between containing and merging, placing ourselves into every plate.