Antinomy Company
Multiple forms, multiple participation, and multiple care
Multiple forms, multiple participation, and multiple care
Antinomy Company is a fluid and multi-modal creative collective that engages with the entangled relationships between body, memory, and site within contemporary contexts. Guided by the core principles of “multiple forms, multiple participation, and multiple care,” the collective explores the layered ambiguities found in artistic materials, narrative structures, and modes of presentation.
Working with text, body, light, sound, and space as materials, the team develops artistic practices that span across theatre, sound, corporeality, and installation. Their long-term creative focus includes the re-narration of island memories in Asia, the embodied experiences of inclusive theatre with non-professional performers, and the perceptual reconfiguration of site-specific contexts, seeking to foster multifaceted dialogues between art and society.
Embarking on a Drift to the Unknown is a solo performance that weaves together asian female migration history, archival documents, and Zi-Wei-Dou-Shu (ancient Chinese astrology) to explore fate, memory, and displacement through sound, body, and live media.
Director｜LI, Yun
Embarking On A Drift To The Unknown is a sound-driven solo performance that explores womanhood, migration, and colonial histories through an intimate headphone-based theatre experience. Centered on the life of a young woman who leaves Guangdong for Malaya in 1957 and never returns home, the work unfolds through fragmented memory rather than linear storytelling. Her life appears as an echo between personal fate and historical force.
Drawing inspiration from Zi-Wei-Dou-Shu, an ancient Chinese astrological system structured around twelve symbolic “life palaces,” the performance adopts this framework as a critical dramaturgical device. Rather than predicting destiny, it reflects on how systems of fate, mobility, and colonial power have shaped female identity and survival across generations.
Audiences wear wireless headphones and enter a multilayered sonic space composed of live voice, archival traces, environmental sound, silence, and vocal fracture. Sound functions not as accompaniment but as the primary narrative medium. Visual and material elements appear as interventions that disturb perception rather than illustrate the story.
The performance creates a ritualized space of listening, where memory is not restored but reactivated as something unstable, haunted, and urgently present—inviting audiences to encounter migration not only as a past event, but as a condition that continues to shape bodies, borders, and systems of belonging today."
Embarking on a Drift to the Unknown is emotionally resonant and far exceeded my expectations.
Hearing the story through headphones creates the feeling of a voice in your own head, as if your memories are coming back to you.
OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, Australia
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts Weiwuying, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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