/A hybrid practice of
body,
space,
sound,
language,
shaped by grief,
informed by
critical systems thinking, philosophical poetics
How does embodied epistemic inference function when structures, certainties, or memory fail to hold us — and how can artistic practice render this process tangible?
My work tests hypotheses about grief and its related modes of knowing by constructing hybrid environments that serve as experimental sites of becoming.
Dan Su (su dance110) is a Berlin-based transdisciplinary artist, writer and composer with roots in Yunnan, China. They work with states of rupture, recursion, and transformation, through embodiment, sound, language, and material-spatial inscription. Shaped by grief and displacement, Su’s work opens unresolved terrains of 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 fractured ancestral memory and voice. TRANCEFACIAL (2025), mobile grief temples, bridge towards the forthcoming 7-3 trilogy which continues this trajectory.
Su constructs systems of shifting architectures: installations as spatially anchored inscriptions, vocal compositions in invented languages, 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), and performance at Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (Sanatorium of Sound). 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.