Choreographing Politics with & for Many Other Bodies
Choreographing Politics with & for Many Other Bodies
Date/Time: Friday, 30 August 2024, 14:00-15:10
Venue: 11F Studio 3, Taipei Performing Arts Center
Moderator: Huang Ding-Yun
Artist/Speaker: Đoàn Thanh Toàn, Amrita Hepi, Su Pin-Wen, Yon Natalie Mik (*Listed in alphabetical order of the last name.)
Language: In English with simultaneous interpretation in Mandarin
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Politics and the artist’s body are ongoingly intertwined and entangled. This discussion brings together artists and dance makers Đoàn Thanh Toàn (Vietnam), Amrita Hepi (Australia), Su Pin-Wen (Taiwan), Yon Natalie Mik (Germany) featured in the 2024 ADAM Artist Lab and Taipei Arts Festival, introducing local and global social and political climate and the queerness that they have been respectively working with and for. The artists will elaborate and celebrate an internet of bodies and their artistic practices, remapping ways of thinking biopolitics, a collective body, and body politics.
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Based in Saigon, Đoàn Thanh Toàn's choreographic experiments explore queer relations and Vietnam's socio-political landscapes. Through solo and collaborative works, Toàn navigates diverse performance-making approaches. Their pieces grace stages at MORUA, MoT+++, San Art, A. Farm, Time Between, and Undecided Productions in Vietnam. Internationally, Toàn's works have been showcased at Pro Helvetia residency (Kaserne Basel, Switzerland), Before the Cataclysm, After the Storm exhibition (TPW Gallery, Canada), Thinking Like Dance residency (Japan), Invisible Dance: The Bodies in Friction (India), and digitally in UrFear (by Teater Garasi, Indonesia).
Photo (c) Kuba Tom
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Amrita Hepi (Bundjulung/Ngapuhi Territories) is an artist & choreographer based in Naarm (Melbourne) and Bangkok.
Her interest as an artist is in the idea of archive; particularly in relation to the body and how it is organized by ancestry/people/events and environment, by coalescing fact and fiction, memoir and ethnography, the local and the singular into the performance/art work she makes.
Amrita trained at NAISDA & Alvin Ailey NYC. A critically acclaimed artist she has twice been the winner of the people's choice award from the Keir Choreographic Award, was a Forbes 30 under 30 for artist, and has shown and been commissioned nationally and internationally.
Photo (c) Amelia J Dowd
Su Pin-Wen, Taiwan
Su Pin-Wen (he/him/they) is an artist and Artistic Director of Kua Bo Dance Theatre. He holds an MFA in Choreography at the Taipei National University of the Arts and a BA in philosophy at Nan-Hua University. His work challenges the heteronormative stereotypes revolving around notions of gender, feminism, and nudity. Since 2013, Su has researched and practiced tactile culture. They take dance into conceptual art beyond the aesthetic genre.
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Yon Natalie Mik is a multidisciplinary artist and dancer who is working at the intersection of performance and poetry. Drawing from the knowledge of disobedient and marginalized bodies, Mik’s expanded choreographies are anchored on the subversive power of fragility. Her practice often manifests in in-depth studies of kinetic thinking that range from individual gestures to larger social movements. Some of her latest projects exposed the body politics in the lives of Asian migrants shaped by ableism, racism, and classism. She considers her practice as a choreographic approach to archiving overlooked or oppressed forms of bodily knowledge.
Photo(c) Rina Nakano
Huang Ding-Yun is one of the co-founders of Taipei-based multi-creator collective, Co-Coism. Co-coism aims at work-in-collective, site-responding, and interdisciplinary practices. They focus on creating a flexible relationship between the audience and the performers. Recently, Ding-Yun initiated series of projects on ‘Mind and Consciousness’, such as God in Residence and Performing Insanity.
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