/A hybrid practice of
sound,
body,
space,
language,
shaped by grief,
informed by
critical systems thinking, philosophical poetics
Dan Su (su dance110) is a Berlin-based transdisciplinary artist and composer with roots in Yunnan, China. They work with states of rupture, recursion, and transformation, through sound, embodiment, language, and material-spatial inscription. Shaped by grief and displacement, Su’s work is grounded in unresolvedness that opens new perceptual space, informed by both their artistic and scientific background.
Their work investigates the embodied aftermaths of structural violence. Beginning with Dark Twisted Mind (2020–2021), which reflected systemic violence as an interactive architecture of complicity, their practice has evolved through Gentle Brutality (2021), a performance-opera on dispossession that explored how beings traversal through such violence, and Shang Can (2024), an internal sonic inquiry into grief and fractured voice. TRANCEFACIAL (2025), a mobile grief temple, bridges towards the forthcoming 7-3 trilogy which continues this trajectory.
Su constructs systems of shifting architectures: vocal compositions in invented languages, installations as spatial inscriptions, and performances that engage situated space and unstable memory. Their practice enacts a critical embodied epistemic inference, drawing from probabilistic and somatic methods. This transdisciplinary approach is driven by a core urgency: to hold space for unresolved states of being.
They are the founder of 3087 Records and have presented work across both underground and institutional contexts in Europe, Asia and North America. Recent highlights include German Record Critics’ Award (album Persist, category electronic and experimental), performance at MoMA Warsaw (via Sanatorium of Sound), and Staatsoper Berlin Orpheus Festival. Su holds MS and PhD degrees in Quantitative Methodology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (U.S.), and MA in choreography from the University of the Arts Berlin, and Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch.