A Chinese Home: Video 2 x 10 minutes
Chen Shizheng/The Kronos Quartet/Carnegie Hall, 2009
A Chinese Home, a staged work with video for string quartet and pipa, takes its inspiration from Yin Yu Tang, a large home from a southeastern Chinese village that was meticulously dismantled, transported to Massachusetts, and reconstructed in the Peabody Essex Museum. The work explores shifts in Chinese cultural identity, and the modernization of rural life through music and sonic environments. Tan Dun's epic Ghost Opera, drawing from shamanistic peasant traditions dating back more than four millennia, also delves into China’s expansive cultural timeline, in a staging with water, metal, stone, and paper.
The Kronos Quartet and Wu Man performed the world premiere at Carnegie Hall October 2009, New York. Director and Visual Designer: Chen Shi-Zheng.
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