Since 2000 years ago, the Spice Road has brought treasures existing only on the other side of the world. Spices, goods, food; cultures, power, technologies – all shared along the routes as the earliest form of globalisation. For centuries we thought that all these exchanges were Boundless.
15 May 2021 – 9pm to 10.40pm (GMT+8)
Language: English / Free Event
Since 2000 years ago, the Spice Road has brought treasures existing only on the other side of the world. Spices, goods, food; cultures, power, technologies – all shared along the routes as the earliest form of globalisation. For centuries we thought that all these exchanges were Boundless.
Today, however, as we are experiencing the unprecedented climatic, ecological crises, and the world sweeping pandemic, a large part of humanity has found itself deprived of movement and of its ability to meet. Is it a harbinger that the world as we know is reaching its limits?
As a Touring Production through time differences, connecting 10 artists real-time from 9 countries in 4 continents, the Spice Road will tell the global story of food and struggle – the story we are living right now through the eyes of these actors; the story of a world at a standstill; and the possibility of thinking about the future – thinking about the future to change it.
*This live performance is number limited.
First-come, first-reserved.
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從兩千年前開始，貫穿亞非歐的「香料之路」促成世界文明的流動——香料、糧食、商品、文化、權力、科技——帶來人類社會全球化的雛型。直至當代，一切看似理所當然地往前推進，無遠弗屆。
突然間，一場席捲全球的疫症打斷一切秩序，人的流動戛然而止；同時氣候及生態危機迫在眉睫，越見頻繁的大災難指日可待——海洋污染、極端高溫、乾旱、水災、飢荒。為了食物，為了生存，好些貧苦的人口更成為自己土地上的難民。這些是否預言著，人類社會的大限將至？
《香料之路》巡迴五個時區、串連九國的十位藝術家，同步實時演出食物與掙扎的故事、我們當下經歷的故事、世界被封鎖隔離的故事，尋找故事隙縫中展望未來、改變未來的可能。
*本次Zoom互動劇場人數有限，先到先得。