- A-wu-ru-rua 阿呜乳拉
- Multimedia Performance
- 2023
In the spring, upon starving to death, the girl eats herself. She enters the mystical land of Awururua inside her body. Her choice allows her to exist both inside and outside of herself. She is the body that digests food and the food that enters the body. She is aware and being awared. She is in between the esophagus and stomach. She is in between life and death. She self-destructs and she comes alive. She is the ouroboros, a ring, a contradiction, a paradox, the truth, the mother, the daughter, the food, the eater…
Awururua is an interactive performance project by Jia-yue Ding, Ruoming Zhao, and Xiyue Liang. The performance combines video art, music, spoken-word, and foodmaking, telling a story of a girl who eats herself upon starving to death under the food shortage of the 0-covid lockdown confinement. As she experiences digestion and integration in the inner mystical land of Awururua, she releases herself into an open tense of "becoming".
This story connects transcendental experience to collective SH lockdown memory through devouring, digesting, and becoming. Awuurua is the sound/movement of digestion, the mumbling of infants, as well as an open channel of circulation, It amplifies the experience of synchronicity and reveals the co-existence of life: the "I" devours “my body” and surrenders to the suffering of near-death; the digestion gradually dissolves the individual forms and expands boundaries to all senses and consensus. As the performance unfolds, the past integrates with the future, moving toward a timeless space of rebirth. "I" return to the present, remembering the collective energy, now infused with independent intent.
"I ate myself," and in this act, suffering is both evoked and liberated.
阿呜乳拉是多媒介行为剧场项目，由丁佳悦、赵若茗、梁曦玥合作呈现，结合表演、影像、音乐、食物制作等。
春天，在被困住的房间，饿死的边缘，⼥孩吃掉了⾃⼰。她进⼊了体内的阿呜乳拉，开始同时存在于外部与内部：她没有变⼤，也没有变⼩，她是消化⻝物的身体，也是进⼊体内的⻝物，她在此与彼之间，在⽣与死之间，在意识也在被意识，在⻝道和胃部之间，她在⾃我毁灭的同时获得新⽣，她是衔尾蛇，⽭盾，母亲、女儿、⼀个⻝物，⼀个吃饭的⼈。
⼥孩消化的蠕动遵循着阿呜乳拉的规律，共振到了所有正在消化的⽣命，还原为热量，开启了初⽣的契机。 给予身体的⺟亲此时蔓延⾄给予⻝物的⼿，通过显现事物的存在回应着阿呜乳拉的振动，强烈的⽣命冲动在闭合的⼤地上，成为星星、肠胃、历史的共振。
这是⼀个在集体的封闭记忆中连接时空和共享存在的故事。阿呜乳拉是消化蠕动的声音和动态，是婴儿的语焉不详，也是开放的循环渠道。它放大同步性的体验，揭示了生命的共融。当"我 "吞噬 "我的身体"，接纳濒死的痛苦，经历吞⻝、消化、 转换，并穿透经验的膜时，“我”的边界也扩展到环境的感官和共识，个体的历史被当下的觉察所解放，事物的规范面向未发生的时间。而苦难贯穿着“我”吃掉自己的过程，同时被唤起与解放。
PRELUDE: THE ANCIENT CALL
ACT I: I’M SO HUNGRY, I’M SO DIVINE
ACT II: I’M SO FULL, I’M SO ALIVE
ACT III: THEY GAVE ME FOOD AND SUPERPOWER
FOOD RITUAL
Credits
Producer & First Script: Jia-yue Ding
Performance Design: Jia-yue Ding, Ruoming Zhao
Prelude design: Ruoming Zhao, Jia-yue Ding, Xiyue Liang
ACT 1 & 2 Filmmaker: Jia-yue Ding
ACT 1 & 2 Sound Production: Rainsoft (ACT1), Ruoming Zhao (ACT2)
ACT 3. Filmmaker and Music Production: Ruoming Zhao
ACT 3 3D and Visual support: Jia-yue Ding, Nan Gao
Food Ritual Design: Xinyue Liang
Performer: Jia-yue Ding, Ruoming Zhao, Xiyue Liang
Poster Design: Siyu
Photographer: Difu Shi, Gan Lin
Special thanks to: Special edition Project, Shanghai