We are a group of Chinese performance artists, the creative effort behind Rainmaking since 2019. In 2022, we adapted this project for a tour in the UK.

Rainmaking, inspired by a global increase in the past five years of people taking it to the streets, is an outdoors participatory live art project exploring ‘campaign’ as a public political act by means of playfulness.

We believe in a curious dynamic between the abstraction of wanting it to rain as a goal and the tangible experience of participating in a
campaign. Rainmaking is designed in this way to generate an in-between and playful arena where people are free to role-play, question and reflect on their actions during and after an act of public activism.

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Production History
23 Aug. 2019, Century Park, Shanghai, China
26-28 Oct. 2019, Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Wuzhen, China
5 November 2019, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China
1 Jan 2022, Greenwich Park, London, UK
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Team
Initiator: Flo Yuting Zhu
Co-director: Flo Yuting Zhu, Jeremy Chen
Dramaturg: Manyang Hu
Graphic Designer: Jeremy Chen
Web Developer: Siyuan Wu
Original Creative Team (2019-2020): Flo Yuting
Zhu, Jeremy Chen, Jingyi Guo, Gefei Liu
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Contact
E-mail: rainmaking.art@gmail.com
Instagram: @rainmaking.art