Graduated from BA and MA Stage Design at the Central Academy of Drama, Zeen is currently teaching at School of Theatre, Film and TV in the Communication University of China, and was in charge of the MOE Experimental Zone for Training Talents ‘ Dramatic Art Design Studio’. Since 1997, he has been working as a stage designer, production designer and creative collaborator in nearly 100 productions in theatre, film and television.

His works have been selected in 2009& 2017 World Stage Design (WSD), 2011& 2015 Beijing Stage Design Invitational Exhibition, 2014& 2016 CISD Exhibition ‘ Art Works by Young Avant- Grade Stage Designers’, 2015 The Third Chinese Stage Design Exhibition, 2016 Busan Biennale. He was the exhibition designer of the national exhibition of China in Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ) in 2015, the curator of Invitational Exhibition of Young Avant-Garde Stage designers in 2017, as well as the curator and the exhibition designer of national and student exhibition of China in PQ2019.

Two of his theatre models were collected and archived by the National Centre for the Performance Arts. He has received both national and international awards, including the Best Works Award, the China Ornamental Column Award, the China TV Golden Eagle Award, and ‘Silver Award of Performance Design’ in WSD2017. Furthermore, he was one of the Stage Designers of the Year in 2017.

This performance was designed with the use of audio transmitting devices and headphones between the performers and audience, in order to create a unique spectator experience.

19 performers were telling their own stories simultaneously on the stage, creating 19 hubbubs of voices. Each story was broadcasted on a particular frequency channel through shortwave. With a simple twist of a button, each audience was able to choose different channel via distributed radio device.

Channel shifting,

Story switching, 

varying one from another…… 

The unexpected loud sound interrupted all the story telling. 

Maybe it was a sudden scolding

Or,

a compliment, a celebration…

Boiling kettle blows the ladder was creating a jarring whistle continuously…

Opened theatre rear door formed a sound field, and the audience was able to see backstage staff comes and goes right through it.

At the beginning of design process, there was no such thing as a script, the challenge was: how to bring 19 ordinary people together talking about their own stories for an hour on a theatre stage.

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Venue：Beijing

This was a theatre event performed on an ongoing bus.

The bus brought the audience into a journey of city wandering through a particular route, meanwhile, what were playing in audience’s headphone are audio contents related to those places passing by, associating mutual memories of this city.

This moving bus seemed like transforming the whole city into a theatre stage.

Interestingly, at one point, the ‘bus auditorium’ became a functional bus again with a mixture of audience and passengers who have no idea what they went on.

The bus traveled from city center to suburb, and arrived at an open landscape on the edge of this city.

It was a documentary journey of revealing the radical development of cities in China for the past decades.

The audience witnessed a ritual of handing over stacks of files besides a solitary desk in the landscape of wilderness.

What contained in those files were biographies of people who passed away during the last year with memories from relatives and friends.