LIFT & TAIPEI PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
WORLD PREMIERE
BY KUANG-YI KU & ROBERT CHARLES JOHNSON

Step outside your comfort zone and into a night market of the future.

Intersecting performance, speculative design and science, BAT NIGHT MARKET tells the tales of the extraordinary bat species, and examines their imperative place in our global ecosystem.

You’ll journey into a futuristic Taiwanese night market, and explore what interspecies resourcefulness might look like in the not-so-distant future through a series of games, tastings and sensory experiences.

Creative R&D for BAT NIGHT MARKET took place in Taipei and at Science Gallery London, where Kuang-Yi and Robert collaborated with a number of King’s researchers, including professor of tissue engineering Lucy Di Silvio; bat ecology researcher Martha Gallardo Galaviz; professor of anthropology and global health Ann Kelly; and Gemma Bowsher who works at the interface of health security and biological threats.

Read an interview with creators Kuang-Yi Ku and Robert Johnson

Production photos: Ellie Kurttz

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© Rain Wu. This is an AI-assisted image created with the support of Midjourney.

CREDITS

Lead Artist Kuang-Yi Ku
Lead Artist Robert Johnson
Dramaturg Ding-Yun Huang
Food Artist Rain Wu
Soundscape Design Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Scientists: Gemma Bowsher, Martha Gallardo Galaviz, Lucy Di-Silvio

Motion Graphics Director: Chia-Hua Lee
Motion Graphics Designer: Xuanjie Huang, Deer Sheng
Graphic Designer: Po-Chun Chou
Soundscape Design & Music: The Electronic and Produced Music Department, Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Music Director: Barbara De Biasi
Lead Sound Designer: Bronte Tucker
Composers: Oliwia Radomska, Tongyu Wu, Eleanor Fineston-Robertson, Annabel Brooks, Theo Lees.
Sound Designers: Oliwia Radomska, Taha Kagzi, Chester Tribley
Game Design Engineer: Chia-Hung Lin (Mick Lin)
Chef: Luke Keyte

Performers: Vinna Law, Steve Lok, Robin Khor Yong Kuan, Marian Lee, Diana Feng, Sigi Moonlight

BSL interpreter: Rachel Rebecca Jones

Co-Commissioned by LIFT and Taipei Performing Arts Center.

Funded by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants and the ARTWAVE project of the National Culture and Arts Foundation (NCAF), Taiwan, which are designed to support UK and overseas organisations to collaborate on international arts projects.

Also generously supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts & The London Community Foundation (LCF) and The Taipei Representative Office. The composition and production of the original soundscape is supported by Garrick Charitable Trust and The Leche Trust.

Research and development supported by Science Gallery London, part of King’s College London, and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the UK. Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Bao, Goldsmiths University of London, and Taipei Performing Arts Centre (TPAC)

With thanks to
Robin Collective
Wheelcake Island
Deafinitely Theatre
Donmar Warehouse
Kiln Theatre