Cancer Space is an interactive theater performance as a metaphor for the body with cancer.

I build on Foucault’s heterotopia “world within world” concept to explore the relation between the psycho-somatic space of a body with cancer and the external world.
Everyone has Cancer in the brain, which is from the accumulation of daily life emotions. However, we grow numb with the Cancer which is overwhelmed by others’ expectations and social values.

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Psycho-somatic space and external world

The audience walks into a narrow underground space transformed into a theatrical space, as if they are walking into the performer’s brain, and are invited to sit anywhere they wish.
Cancer Space will catch you and release all the hiding feelings in daily life. When people go out of the Cancer Space in the theater, the world outside is a larger Cancer Space.