The Temporal Blooming Of A Flower Upon The Earth


  • Photographer
    Akai Chew
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2014

The Getai originated as temporary Chinese opera stages common around the 30 days Hungry Ghost Festival. According to belief, souls are released from hell and allowed to return to earth. The operas were entertainment for the souls. With the popularity of Chinese opera waning, it had shifted to show pop entertainment. These stages are inserted into the existing cityscape, affixing themselves onto footpaths, trees, lampposts, and existing buildings. For a short span of a few nights, they become a beacon, attracting the community with the performances and rituals against an austere cityscape. From the city centre to suburban towns, dead spaces would be the focus of activity which interrupts the normalcy of the urban fabric. For a moment's glory the stages serve those as transient as themselves. These structures appear for a few days and then disappear, surviving and functioning through this temporal symbiotic architecture.

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