The Present 2022
Work
The Present is an ongoing project initiated by Calen-Trans that seeks to salvage and protect the visibility of the transgender community in China.
The project intervenes and captures the hidden emotional historical narrative of the community through multiple perspectives, retold and publicly archived in a multimedia output based on a perpetual calendar and delivered as a ‘present’.
Participants are encouraged to re-examine the complex relationship between the group’s identity/family/power in a severe social context through a series of subtle, non-linear retrospective narratives in the ‘presents’.
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The Present : Calendar，2022.
Delicate, non-linear narrative storytelling serves as the basis for the calendar, encouraging viewers to mark their unique points in time as they read.
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The Present : Publication, 2022.
A pile of newspapers, three stories. The unique layout guides the viewer to perceive the deeper meaning behind the stories from different perspectives.
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The Present : Verbatim Theatre, 2022.
The verbatim dialogue format helps different groups to build empathy better. In addition, audiences from other countries gave their voices based on the project.