
The Euro-Asian RRRRRR collective will present their theatre project "Wen Keng We Meet? - On Connection" in January 2026 at Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zurich.
RRRRRR Collective is an Euro-Asian transcultural art collective of performers, visual artists, and a dramaturg: Keng Chen (*1995, Hangzhou/Shanghai), Wen-Chi Liu (*1993, Taipei), Dino Radoncic (*1994, St. Gallen), Eneas Prawdzic (*1989, Zurich), Nathalie Stirnimann (*1990, Zurich), and Stefan Stojanovic (*1993, Zurich).
The collective was founded in 2018 through the “Transcultural Collaboration” program (ZHdK Zurich / Baptist University Hong Kong). Since then, they have developed performances, installations, and residencies in Zurich, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taipei. Their practice explores connection, long-distance collaboration, and collective authorship through intuitive and process-driven methods. Past works include “Forbidden Fruits from Richland Garden” (Hong Kong, 2018), “Wen Keng We Meet? – On the (Im)Possibility of Long-Distance Artistic Collaboration” (Zurich, 2019), and “Keng, You Swim!? – Round Two” (Shanghai, 2024).
Their current project, “Wen Keng We Meet? – On Connection”, developed in collaboration with “Open Studio” by Dimitri de Perrot (usage of the scenographic and audio concept), continues this inquiry into transcultural artistic exchange.
Despite globalization, we are witnessing a global resurgence of borders, separation, and geopolitical tension.
The theatre project “Wen Keng We Meet? – On Connection” places at its centre the question of how, as members of different societies, we can continue to stay connected across national borders — and even deepen those connections.
Therefore, the transnational collective RRRRRR brings a documentary-fictional theatre piece to the stage, transforming a real event — their 2024 attempt to meet at the narrowest point between China and Taiwan — into a poetic reflection on human connection.