ABSTRACT
Paper Boat was a site-responsive performance that began in the South-East Asian country of Singapore. The work explored the effects of rapidly shifting urban landscapes on personal and cultural identity, and was performed in five different cities. All were in different states of change, moving at different speeds of experiential reality, some seemingly more in danger of what architect Juhani Pallasmaa has described as ‘cultural amnesia’ than others. This co-authored chapter outlines some of the cross-cultural processes and choices that we, the creators of Paper Boat, had to make as we redesigned our performance for each new city.
