Cloud Memoir

2025

This multimedia stage poem is narrated by a “cloud.” Through its first-person voice, the cloud recounts how the atmosphere shared by humankind has been shaped and scarred by natural disasters, industrial revolutions, warfare, and global capital—mirroring both human forgetfulness and the resonance of fate.

In the performance, the cloud is a forgetful historian; the wind, an eraser that stirs, blurs, and distorts; light, the scribe that inscribes and overwrites, leaving behind errors and noise; and humans are the cloud’s shadow, meeting it in a fleeting moment of civilization.

Across three acts—from primordial vapor at the birth of atmosphere and ancient sky divination, to the sun-swallow smoke of volcanic eruptions and dark clouds of industry, as well as the mushroom clouds of war—the work reveals that every breath connects our lungs to the same atmosphere. Combining indoor cloud-making, microclimate control, and sound-light resonance, Black Void monitors thermal shifts and adjust humidity and airflow to orchestrate the clouds’ gathering and dispersal—echoing nature’s own turbulence, where every cloud bears the restless desires of humankind, shaping the world’s warmth and cold.