Too Big to Perform

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Image©️Park Cheolhwan

“Things that are too big, too dangerous, or too ridiculous to be performed.
Rather than leaving the room, we each attempt them in our own way, confronting them head-on.”

On stage, the impossible operates in many forms. Things too big, too small, too dangerous, or simply too ridiculous to be performed. Yet it is precisely at this point that performance tests its own limits and conditions. The attempt to enact the impossible inevitably slips into failure, but that failure transforms into another kind of possibility in front of the audience.

Too Big to Perform reveals the impossible not as a halt or a surrender, but as a new point of departure. It is both command and play, a sincere attempt and a joke that ends in failure. Five bodies and voices linger precariously on the boundary between the possible and the impossible, and within this continuum, the audience confronts their own assumptions about what “impossible” is.

Concept: Minjin Lee
Research: Hyowon Kwon, Minjin Lee, Yujin Lee, Daun Lim, Nawon Jung, Sumin Han
Performers: Hyowon Kwon, Yujin Lee, Daun Lim, Nawon Jung, Sumin Han
Production: 2025 Ob/scene Focus

Commissioning credits: Too Big to Perform was commissioned and premiered at Ob/Scene Focus. It was subsequently presented at Gyeongnam Art Museum, where the work was reimagined through a four-day workshop with Changwon citizens, who participated as both collaborators and performers.

Performances:
28 June 2026 (workshop June 6 — 21) – Gyeongnam Art Museum, closing performance of Within and Without, Changwon, South Korea
07 — 09 November 2025 – Windmill, as part of Ob/Scene Focus, Seoul, South Korea