2022TAF X BLEED "Paeonia Drive"

Paeonia Drive is an interdisciplinary and long-term project triggered through Taipei Performing Arts Center's initiative ADAM in 2018. It was presented as an online artwork in the BLEED 2020. The newly-staged presentation of this work is going to be physically presenting in Taipei as part of TAF and BLEED 2022, a biennial produced and presented by the partnered institutions across Taiwan and Australia.

This project collaborated by Angela Goh and Su Yu-Hsin brings together performance, video installation, and dance. Speculating ways of living and moving in the age of digital anxiety, techno-culture, and image production, the artists explore the metaphor of gardens with historical, infrastructural, and symbolic aspects to embody the performance. 

Life with contemporary digital machines produces everyday encounters of doubling, splitting, and reverberating as new aspects of our bodily experiences. In a garden where organizations of bodies, nature, and power meet and integrate with one another:
Who is watching the threshold of this garden?
We cannot hide outside of view when the outside is already on the inside.
Reality is disappearing and reappearing in confusing ways.

Between blurred borders of nature, artificiality, beauty and horror, the artists occupy and produce relations of differentiation and integration between the corporeal and the informatic, allowing converging and diverging series of machine-body events to begin to map themselves out.

This collaboration between Sydney-based dancer and choreographer Angela Goh and Taiwanese artist and filmmaker Su Yu-Hsin speaks at scales alternately intimate, social, and planetary, zooming in and out on the hazy horizon of the future.

Angela Goh, Australia
Angela Goh is a dancer and choreographer whose work takes shape across a variety of formats and expressions. Her work has been commissioned by the Sydney Opera House (AU), Auto Italia (UK), Taipei Performing Arts Center (TW), and Next Wave (AU), as well as being presented widely across Australia, Europe, the UK, USA, and Asia including at Performance Space New York (PS 122, US), Arnolfini (UK), SPRING Festival (NL), Baltic Circle (FI), Artspace Sydney (AU), Fusebox Festival (US), Liveworks Festival (AU), My Wild Flag (SE), the Art Gallery of NSW (AU), Shedhalle (CH), and AsiaTOPA (AU), among others. She was awarded the Keir Choreographic Award in 2020, the Create NSW Performing Arts Fellowship in 2019-20, and the inaugural Sydney dance Company Fellowship in 2020-21. She has undertaken artist residencies across Australia, Europe, the UK, and Asia, including at Rimbun Dahan (MY), Tanzhaus Zurich (CH), Dance4 (UK), and the Cité Internationale des Arts (FR), among others.

Su Yu-Hsin, Taiwan
Su Yu-Hsin (b.1989) is a Taiwanese artist and filmmaker currently based in Berlin. She approaches ecology from the point of view of its close relationship with technology. In her film and video installations, her artistic research reflects on technology, ecology, and the critical infrastructure in which the human and non-human converge. Her analytical and poetic storytelling focuses on map-making, operational photography, and the technical production of geographical knowledge. Su has participated in group exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (2021), Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (2021), Taipei Biennial (2020), ZKM Karlsruhe (2020), Kyoto Art Center (2020), UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (2020), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2019), and Junín Contemporary Art Museum (2018). She was a finalist in the 8th Huayu Youth Award (2020) and LOOP Barcelona Discover (2018). 

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Paeonia Drive is commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre and Taipei Performing Arts Center as part of BLEED 2020 and ADAM.

The newly-staged presentation of Paeonia Drive is developed and supported by Taipei Performing Arts Center as part of BLEED 2022 and Taipei Arts Festival.

Paeonia Drive is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

BLEED (Biennial Live Event in the Everyday Digital) was conceived by Campbelltown City Council through Campbelltown Arts Centre, and City of Melbourne through Arts House. BLEED 2022 is produced and presented by Campbelltown City Council through Campbelltown Arts Centre, City of Melbourne through Arts House, the Taipei Performing Arts Centre, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei.

BLEED 2022 has been assisted by the Taiwan Ministry of Culture (Sydney Office).

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