Party! - Party for Plants reimagines the theater as a continuous moving stage, where performers and audiences circulate through a lightweight envelope and the changing overlap of vegetation, translucent surfaces, and bodies becomes part of the scenery. There is no single stage and no single backdrop.
Material and lighting studies inspired by Los Angeles: intense color, lush vegetation, and an ambiguity between natural and artificial surfaces.
Rather than organizing the theater around a fixed stage, the project creates a continuous loop where both performers and audiences are constantly in motion.
Circulation - Stage
Envelope - Scenery
As viewers move, translucent panels, vegetation, performers, and other visitors overlap and recombine into changing backgrounds.
The theater is conceived as a lightweight, demountable structure, using simple passive strategies for shade, ventilation, and thermal comfort.
2022 Spring
Los Angeles, California
Instructors: Mira Henry, Matthew Au
Collaborators: Guanglei Zhang, Fangyi Jiang