The Empty Fort Strategy | Odd Salon SIEGE
Channel: Odd Salon
Date: 2020-09-04

As one of the oldest and most enduring types of battle, there are myriad methods and strategy for setting up a defense when the enemy is on the horizon. So: How do you thwart a siege on your city when your army is away? All it takes is a little cunning and deception, a lot of confidence and according to legend, a lute helps too in the "The Empty Fort Strategy" - just one of the many tricks and techniques laid out in the Thirty-Six Stratagems of the Chinese "Book of Qi."

Isolde Honore ~ The Empty Fort Strategy

Odd Salon SIEGE: tales of blockades vs. mighty walls, trebuchets and catapults, mercenaries, munitions, and strategies for deadly games of waiting
 
Recorded and mixed live at Public Works, San Francisco, CA, on May 3rd, 2017.

Curated by Annetta Black 
Camera: Ronny Preciado 
Edit/Post production: John Adams
Sound: Steen
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