The Taiwan Academy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles, the Mak Center for Art and Architecture, and the Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles presented "1:1:2" in a multinational collaboration from Sep. 9 to 11. The performance is curated by Vienna-based artist Chen Ting-jung (陳庭榕), co-created by Korean artists Miae Son and Yela An, with the participation of Meiling Cheng (鄭美玲), Professor of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California, and Leona Chen (陳文羿), Editor-in-Chief of TaiwaneseAmerican.org.
The Taiwan Academy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles mentioned that this performance combined the cooperation of the United States, Austria, Taiwan and Korea to celebrate this important event in Southern California’s architecture and arts community.
Recreating scenes of the 20th century, "1:1:2" unfolds in three parts over three nights, featuring one poet/artist per night through writing, reading, and dissolving sugar words. The performance invites LA-based poets, workshop participants, and literary and performance academics, including Mei-Ling Cheng, Leona Chen and Korean poet Jessica Kim to contribute texts centering on traditional poetic forms and structures found throughout Asia. At the same time, the artist hopes to explore the ideal of "be together" as a vehicle for deconstructing romanticized, symbolic and role-playing images of Asian cultural projections and migration through the voices of Asian history, art and culture, and gender perspectives.
The Schindler House, designed by Austrian-American architect Rudolph Michael Schindler, is considered to be the first modern house in Los Angeles and an avant-garde salon for the most enlightened thinkers of the early 20th century. Founded in 1994 as an independent satellite of the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, cooperated with the Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture, Civil Service and Sport in preserving and promoting Schindler's architecture.