/A hybrid practice of
sonic,
somatic,
spatial,
writing,
shaped by grief,
engaging with
critical systems thinking, and philosophical poetics
Dan Su (su dance110) is a Berlin-based transdisciplinary artist and musician 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.
Rather than anchoring in a single form, Su constructs shifting architectures: vocal compositions in invented languages, installations inscribed with glyphs, and performances that engage situated space and unstable memory. Spanning sonic practice, writing, movement, and object-based work, their practice enacts a critical methodology of listening, destabilization, and embodied epistemic inquiry. This transdisciplinary approach is driven by a core urgency: to hold space for unresolved states of being as they move through post-violence transformation.
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. The forthcoming 7-3 trilogy continues this trajectory—reclaiming and transforming embodied epistemic practice to generate new ways of knowing and being in the wake of rupture.
Su’s background in Quantitative Methodology and Choreography informs their inquiry into grief as an embodied process of unstable inscription, recursive inference, and epistemic rupture. These concerns shape their transdisciplinary trilogy 7-3 (2026), unfolding through a poetic fiction book and sonic rituals. Su holds MS and PhD degrees 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. They are the founder of 3087 Records and have presented work across both underground and institutional contexts in Europe, Asia and North America.
"su dance110" is the sonic alias of Dan Su; "Su 子煊" is the pen name.