Title: I am a lone monk walking in the world with a leaky umbrella
Description: The shadow puppet theater is the oldest form of projected moving images. These semi-transparent puppets are made of tanned animal skins which are stained with ink, and are traditionally played with sticks between a lightsource and a screen. This art form has spread from China throughout Asia. In an age in which moving images are nothing special anymore and everybody has at least one screen permanently within reach, artist Serge Onnen made a series of shadow puppets with Chinese craftsmen. Early 2017 the movie "Cloacinae" had his world premier at Rotterdam International Film Festival and is now traveling the film festivals around the world. The book has brief biographical notes on each puppet, in both Chinese and in English.0Popular Chinese numerology is also an important part of the book. In Chinese homophones numbers are very popular . Homophones are words that have a different meaning, but sound exactly like something else (beer/bear). The book contains a list of numbers-homophones with their meanings in English. Further, two short essays from Shuyu Chen and Annie Katsura Rollins on more than 2000 years old shadow puppet theater and a time line of the period in which this project took place related to world events of economy and anger, that served as inspiration for the crude and grotesque characters of the dolls. (DSK affair, pussy riot, Piketty, Trump, etc.) 0.

The shadow puppet theater is the oldest form of projected moving images. These semi-transparent puppets are made of tanned animal skins which are stained with ink, and are traditionally played with sticks between a lightsource and a screen. This art form has spread from China throughout Asia. In an age in which moving images are nothing special anymore and everybody has at least one screen permanently within reach, artist Serge Onnen made a series of shadow puppets with Chinese craftsmen. Early 2017 the movie "Cloacinae" had his world premier at Rotterdam International Film Festival and is now traveling the film festivals around the world. 0The book has brief biographical notes on each puppet, in both Chinese and in English.0Popular Chinese numerology is also an important part of the book. In Chinese homophones numbers are very popular . Homophones are words that have a different meaning, but sound exactly like something else (beer/bear). The book contains a list of numbers-homophones with their meanings in English. Further, two short essays from Shuyu Chen and Annie Katsura Rollins on more than 2000 years old shadow puppet theater and a time line of the period in which this project took place related to world events of economy and anger, that served as inspiration for the crude and grotesque characters of the dolls. (DSK affair, pussy riot, Piketty, Trump, etc.).
Subjects: Modern Art, Shadow puppets, Shadow shows, Folk art
Time periods: 21st century