3 D Metal Series
(2021 - ongoing)
A material-spatial practice exploring metal as material of site-specific embodied transformation. Through movement, spatial sound, and object interaction, the series investigates how electroacoustic architectures can emerge from raw matter and situated somatic encounter.
3 D : objects | body | space
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Jī 击 (2024)
BRUX, Innsbruck, Austria
Whether visible or invisible, when a stone is thrown, the sound is heard, presumably on earth. "Ji" explores under these presumptions and plays with the visibility and audibility of the cause and effect of the movement "Jī". "Jī" is the Pinyin of the Chinese character "击"， meaning to hit or strike at something. This motion is also manifested in the music composition Stille Oper.
Installation and performances featuring 6-channel loudspeaker spatialisation.
October 12th (3hours durational)
October 18th and 19th
Developed during Vorbrenner residency, funded by Stadt Innsbruck and Land Tirol
Stones are fallen angels
Hit by frozen milky ways
Various wheels round and around
Drive me home
Stone rain
photo © Daniel Jarosch, Dan Su
Various windows that speak to me
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SCENSOR-IIII (2024)
Tanzhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin
Also part of the SCENSOR series. Movement drumming the found objects from Paul’s metal studio. Trapped in the corner of the vast empty room only to break out at the end.
Utilising movement sensors for triggering sound.
Four speakers for spatialisation.
June 29th, 2024
photo © Zhang Jiajing
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Tuō (2023)
Tanzhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin
This performance focuses on the specific movement vocabulary “tuō” which is the pinyin for the Chinese character “拖”, meaning the movement of pulling or dragging. It explores how the sound generated through this movement "拖” shapes between body, objects and space, suggesting the phenomenon beyond the character, the dragging spaceman. The body plays a dual role, both physically and sonically, working with the objects as instruments together to compose the sound with the aid of choreography and a quadraphonic set up.
June 30th, 2023
Commissioned by Sommerfest.ival 2023 of Wiesenburg Berlin.
photo © Melika Akbari
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3 D metal series part 1: Marble Mine (2022)
Las Galeras, DR
Happened at the local marble mine of Las Galeras, DR, the sound was processed through electronics from the live recording of the environment. The movements actively utilise the reverberation of the marble mine space and its industrial context, reflecting the character who lives and works openly with the accidental effects, sites, and unplanned narratives.
January 27th, 2022
In production with Berlin Encuentro con el Caribe residency 2022.
photo © Sebastien Terrie
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3 D metal series part 1: Hull (2022)
Hošek Contemporary, Berlin
This performance embraces the space of the hull site-specifically. Not only objects, movement and voice are the motivations for sound, but also it integrates the organic happening of the falling concrete from the costume as the remnants from the last metal performance. In addition to the analog sound happening, the digital algorithmic ant which runs independently is part of the installation and performance. The parallel happenings of sound and visual dependent or independent from each other are the threads for this site-specific fragmented story telling.
April 1st, 2022
Costume by Zheming Li.
photo © Aleks Slota
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On needle and wheel ( 2022)
Apartment Project, Berlin
The wheel was found on-site at Apartment Project, afterwards the character who wore long hairs nervously looking for the needles that showed up in their dream was born. The wind coming from the wheel that constantly blew into the audience's face reoccurred accidentally.
The text in the performance is also one of chapters from Dan Su's experiment fiction writings.
December 28th, 2022
photo © Melika Akbari
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Attic (2021)
Torhaus Stadt Wehlen, DE
The first solo metal performance happened site-specifically at the attic of the historical building Torhaus in Stadt Wehlen. The performance shaped around a creature who lived in the dusted ceiling and only once a while came down to make noise and blew the dust into the audience's face. A sound performance and an installation with objects and materials found on site.
August 29th, 2021
During the residency program OIIOIOOI.
photo © Yang Cheng