Mojo Woo - Concepts from

OBSESSION

About: MFA of theatre directing from Taipei National University of the Arts. Director in residence of Biáu Biáu Tsè Tsok, brand curator of A Thousand Knives Music Studio, drummer of Miemabuta, and freelance theatre director, theatre music and sound designer, composer and scorer.

Born 1993 in Tainan, Taiwan, third-generation descendant of post-war Chinese mainland immigrants, son of civil servants. His creative work arises from personal experiences of dislocation and dispersal, working with media across disciplines and forms. He values the interplay of chaos and order in presence, of representation and its double. He emphasizes the facts of observation and the essence of construction. He believes knowledge is a form of doing, and that feminine writing — or écriture féminine — is too. He engages with queer aesthetics and gender performativity, hyperreality and the society of the spectacle, as well as postcolonial and diasporic identity politics.

🏆1st Prize, Emerging Sound Design, 2022 WSD.

Piece: A sound concept piece derived from the play OBSESSION and transformed from its stage sound design. The work is composed of the obsessions of various characters in the play and their murmuring-like language. Obsession is a form of presence, shaped by desires so intense they verge on the cult-like. They exist both independently and in confluence, resisting and counterbalancing the control of the central will, as if they possess life of their own. The concept is built from a complex sound text, shifting sonic directions, and the organic interventions of a live controller. What remains constant is the presence of sounds embodying obsession; what changes is the process of control in each iteration.

Sound: Mojo Woo

Text (Original Playwright & Translator): Peng Hsu

Translation Advisor: Allison Yasukawa

Voice: Chao-Tzu Hsu

Engineering: Chih-Lin Chen

Management: Biáu-Biáu-Tsè-Tsok, A-Thousand-Knives Music Studio

Sponsorship: NCAF Taiwan, DCA Taipei, CAB Tainan