2024
Presented in Collaboration with Yale-China Association
International Festival of Arts and Ideas

Producer: Joy Xiaoyue Chen 陈小悦
Associate Producer: Hope Binfeng Ding 丁玢奉
Set Designer: Jennifer Yuqing Cao 曹语晴
Sound Designer & Composer: Xi (Zoey) Lin 林曦
Lighting Designer: Yung-Hung Sung 宋永鴻, Celia Chen 陈蔚清
Costume & Fabric Designer: Lyle Laize Qin 秦莱泽
Projection Designer: John Horzen 约翰·霍尔岑
Project Manager: Steph Lo 盧胤沂
Technical Director: Cathy Ho 何家寶 
Stage Manager: Chloe Xiaonan Liu 刘晓南

The Mailroom is an experiential installation that reimagines the ethereal space of traditional Chinese mailrooms where information, objects, relationships, stories, and emotions converge, intertwine, and eventually disappear. At this event, you can shape your own visiting experience by interacting with the installation at your own pace. Through this multi-sensory exploration, artists from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University delve into the intricacies of community formation and transformation, inviting reflections on the enigmatic essence of collective memory.

Yale-China Artist Residency production by Jennifer Yuqing Cao, collectively devised with Xi (Zoey) Lin, Yung-Sung Sung, Celia Chen, Lyle Laize Qin, and John Horzen.

Photo&Video by: Jennifer Yuqing Cao