Power Station of Art and the Chanel Culture Fund are pleased to announce that the third season of the “New Culture Producers” program, titled Theatre, will be held from July 12 to October 8, 2025, at the first-floor exhibition hall of Power Station of Art in Shanghai. The selected project for this season is Noon, Wildness, Stream, Washe, Ruins, Theatre, curated by the art collective Martin Goya Business. This project dissolves the traditional boundaries between theater, performance, and exhibition, guiding 150 artistic practitioners into a chaotic space-time parallel to the real world, transforming an 8-hour continuous collective action into a continuously evolving poetic theatre.

About Theatre

This 8-hour collective performance titled Noon, Wildness, Stream, Washe, Ruins, Theatre is curated by Martin Goya Business, based on their long-term observation of the spontaneous contemporary art ecology in Hangzhou. It brings together 150 artistic practitioners: archives, video, performance, theater, sound art, experimental music, and action painting are intertwined and presented, placing the daily state of art workers into this extraordinary space, forming an ever-changing live scene.

Based on this 8-hour collective performance, the exhibition space transforms into a complex total theatre: Wildness serves as the prelude, simulating a temporal corridor of fleeting and intertwined moments, drawing both the viewer and the viewed into multiple scenarios; Coordinate gathers letters from 77 artists and groups—comprising correspondence, diaries, poems, manuscripts, and photographs—sketching an unconventional narrative archival space; Moving Image conveys the collective face of young image creators within the art world. These Gen Z artists, enlightened and growing up in the post-Internet era, offer diverse responses to current issues, presented here in simultaneity; Washe, inspired by the bustling entertainment venues of the Song Dynasty, aims to shift the "seeing" and "being seen" relationship within the museum space. Through fluid performances, it continually inspires new potentials between audiences and creators; Ruins symbolizes the fleeting urban landscapes witnessed by Hangzhou artists amid rapid urbanization. Artists return to the act of "painting" to recreate the tension between change and the everyday, depicting hidden, unwritten stories.

Throughout the exhibition period, nearly ten public events will organically unfold in the gallery in the form of performances, workshops, and discussions. By returning repeatedly to the site, these events continually reactivate and reshape the narrative and overall appearance of Theatre.