
A site-specific performance at
Crystal Palace
Artists:
Leo Hardman
Kej Kim
Yuyi Ye
Yafei Zheng
Bird Watch is a site-specific performance based in the maze at Crystal Palace in London.
The audience embarked on a simple journey to the maze's centre, equipped with pre-recorded sounds emanating from their phones and signs on sticks, transforming them into participants in a ritualistic game. The journey through the maze intensified with a symphony of bird calls, creating a trance-like, mythical ambience. This auditory landscape morphed into a textural cacophony, reflecting a sense of chaos and confusion, spiralling into an Arcadian nightmare.
As participants navigated this ritualistic web, they experienced a blend of mythical self-realization and a psychological game teetering on absurdity. The core of the maze revealed a stark contrast: silent, Panopticon-like observers, filming the 'participant-birds' and exuding a formidable sense of control and hierarchy. to evoke elements of corporate orienteering and survival games, played with themes of authoritarianism and fate.






