As wondrous and monstrous as it can be, New York City is a living being who collects, preserves and destroys people’s dreams. Is this city the memory of the future or the desire for the past? How I Disappeared rediscovers the cityscape with memories, desire, intimate moments and expands the discussion of urbanism into cyberspace.

How I Disappeared is a collaborative multimedia puppetry show co-conceived by five Chinese female new immigrant artists: Qingan Zhang, Yuexing Sun, Ningyi Zhang, Jiaoyang Li and Tianding He, with original live music by John Tsung, digital puppetry designed by Brian Ellis and projection designed by Euxuan Ong. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, devisers weave their poetic and personal urban life experiences in NYC with various styles, scales and materials of puppetry.