Updated questions sent to Yuenjie

Here are the updated questions sent to Yuenjie:

1. What is your inspiration of the use of mediums in your performance (e.g. the stickers, umbrella & harmonica)?
2. In your recent published book, you use the pupa figure as the book cover, is the pupa itself has any special meaning to you?
3. In the 4th episode of pupa, concerning the 5.4 tragedy, you stick some black labels on the floor before you formed yourself into a human pupa, is there any meaning before the black labels?
4. Pupa for us has a meaning of sign of reborn. In your live art, it seemed that even you were transformed and reborn from the pupa, you still looked sad, just as the same as you hadn't formed yourself into the pupa. May we ask what is the meaning of pupa to you?
5. Can you tell us more about your feelings and thoughts during the performances?
6. What would you do if someone had tried to break your pupa while you were performing? Or have you ever expected for someone to "save" you out from the pupa when you perform?
7. Have you faced any difficulties in these performance, in terms of technique, physiology, social conflicts and mental issues?
8. What is live art performance for you? Is it a performance to express your feelings and thoughts to audience or is it a channel to reach your self-reflection of life or for your spiritual enhancement?
9. In some of your performance works from different series, we find that you are quite engaging in talking about local social issues and criticizing social phenomena. How do you extract and insert those issues into your ideas of artworks?
10. You have started Symbiotic Dance recently, is there any reflection of changes in your life direction?
11. From some articles we have read, some say Yuenjie tends to use sorrow as the motivation of the art development. So may we ask your opinions about sorrow and sadness and the correlation with the motivation and creativity of your art development.
12. Last Sunday and Monday, the 13-14th of March, I acted in a Joint University drama performance of CityU as an actress, it was my first time on stage. The experience was so unforgettable. We know that you used to be a stage performer, yet you sooner turned to start your live art business and left stage ever. What made you want to leave the stage? Or what made you want to start your live art performance? Was there any critical issue happened?
13. In 2009, you had been back to stage to retrospect your live art performance from the past ten years. How did you feel when you re-perform on stage compare with your first performances of those art works?
14. Live art performance is different from performance on stages, there are no booklets telling the story and intention behind the act, so how can you make sure your audiences will not misinterpret the meaning behind your performances?
15. Last but not least, a very personal question. Performance is so unique from any other art piece, it cannot be copied, and thus hard to be sold. So how do you balance between art development and life, and how do you make your living?

Manman (Carol Lai)