Dan Su is a transdisciplinary artist, composer, musician and choreographer who works with sound and movement through experiments, compositions, improvisations, conceptual frameworks, performances, installations, experimental music, contemporary dance, and media art. Centered around the interplay of ontology, cybernetics, psychology, and methodology, their work attempts to evoke the fifth ghostly dimension, and to create new experiences in the unimaginable landscapes.
su dance110 is the alias of Dan Su in the realm of sound & music.
Philosophically influenced by the second-order cybernetics, they look into the interactivity within plurality. Politically they focus on raising the voice of marginalized and oppressed beings. Their choreography includes elements of bodies at the borderline, fragmented, uncontrolled, or hung bodies, grounded in their "Lazy Body" movement practice. Their sound practice incorporates both corporeal and non-human movements, actions, voice, improvisations and experimentations with self-built objects, feedback systems, and materials, in combination with analogue synthesizers, electronics, and found sound. Working with rooms, sites, and situations, their practice explores and challenges what could be unpredictably experienced and perceived.
"Hunting a vision of Raw, Pure & Uncompromising." Formally trained in dance/choreography(HZT, Berlin University of the Arts & HfS Ernst Busch Berlin) and quantitative methodology/statistics in Educational Psychology(University of Wisconsin-Madison U.S.), they hybridize scientific and artistic thinking, situating their work at the intersections of multiple media and methodologies. Experimental design, sound research, movement research, and processing still and moving images are their practices that feed to each other back and forth.
Composition and Soundscape
22 Flyming | trilogy composition "E", "W" and "Y" for solo voice, objects, synthesizers and electronics, total 91:10 min
Haut soundtrack | composition for short film: Haut, 10min
d!s | 3:33:08 scoring for dance performance: d!s - rupted, 60 min
3 D metal series part 2 | composition for quartet: violin, double bass, trumpet, motorbike, 12 min
3 D metal series part 1 | soundscape for sound and movement performance, 42 min
21 unmeasurement | composition for construction-site performance: Road Maintenance Series Nr.01, 52 min
DTM | composition for performance: Dark Twisted Mind, 32 min
20 Stille Oper | composition for performance: Riss, 20 min
White Write | soundscape for performance: WHITE WRITE 白 写, 3 hour
19 Chicken Soup IIII | composition for dance performance: On an attempt of a chicken soup, 21 min
Music Release
23 solo record, in progress
3:33:08 | collaboration with William "Bilwa" Costa, in progress
22 Pe-13.or0 | collaboration with Claudio Puntin, LP, 3087 Records
21 Game0: 110 | solo debut multimedia album
20 Chicken Soup IIII | EP
Blue Eyes | single
19 Today I am | single
Performance, Installation and Choreography Production
22 my social media practice | Improvised voice and text with random feed of Instagram sound (Petersburg Art Space, Berlin)
A_M_19 | sound performance with jewelries and electronics (Berlin Noise Festival, Galiläakirche)
3 D metal series part 1: Marble Mine | site-specific movement and sound performance (Las Galeras, DR)
21 Gentle Brutality | music and dance performance (HfS, Berlin)
Dark Twisted Mind | Interactive audio-visual performance and installation (HfS, Berlin)
untitled series: basement, toilette, attic | installations and performances 5.05 min, 2.30 min, 25 min (Torhaus, Stadt Wehlen, DE)
Duet: on the way to forget | Site-specific dance performance (Dominican Republic)
20 Riss | Installative music and dance performance (Orpheus Festival, Staatsoper Berlin)
TU BE | Commissioned site-specific music and dance performance (Gaswerksiedlung, Berlin)
WHITE WRITE 白 写 | Three hours audio-visual performance and installation (Studio48, Berlin)
19 On an attempt of a chicken soup | Solo performance (Ada studio, Berlin)
18 I EYE I | Trio dance performance (Tanzfabrik, Berlin)
Ready to Explode | Trio dance performance (Uferstudio, Berlin)
17 Roots | Solo performance (UW-Madison, U.S.)
Visual and Mixed Media
Fragmented digital art listed on dancesu
Short Film
21 Game0 : 110 | full length film for music album Game0 : 110 (Berlin)
On Zone and Gap 区 间 | conceptual short (Berlin), exhibition at KUB Galerie, Leipzig
20 Breath Span | Poem film (Albi, France)
Erosion Project | Dance film features brutalist architecture (Madison, U.S.), screened by Oberhausen Film Festival
19 Blue Eyes | Music video (Salzburg, Austria)
18 Today I am | Music video (New Mexican, U.S.)
Bird beyond Bird | Experimental shorts with animation (Berlin)
Why Lolli | Dance film (Chicago, U.S.)
Wood in Mood | Dance film (Austria)
17 Dare to Dance in Public | Site-specific dance performance (Berlin)
Next Door | Dance film (Vienna)
Verboten | Experimental short (Vienna)
Selected Live Act
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Experimental concert series "Concert for 1 person" | various time lengths (spaces including public, private, site-specific, gallery and non-space space)
Concert "Y Flyming" | 31 min (Sauna Studio experimental music series, Muschkebart Berlin)
Concert "E Flyming" adapted to the church space | 33 min (Organ Series, Taborkirche Berlin)
Solo live set: movement, feedback, synthesizers, electronics, voice | 28 min (an8x event series, Kwia, Berlin)
Improvisation with Alexander Kranabetter, Sofía Salvo, Margaret Unknown | 16 min (TrXXXtR, Berlin)
Solo live set: feedback, synthesizers, electronics, voice | 31 min (Opening at exhibition "Co_vid: Wir im Um_bruch", Galerie KUB, Leipzig)
Improvisation with band Center for Mind and Brain | 1h ( gART.n, Gaswerksiedlung Berlin)
Concert "W Flyming" | 28 min (Summer Festival, Tanzhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin)
Hacklab finale | evening show (CTM Festival, Kunsthaus Bethanien, Berlin)
Concert "E Flyming" | 33 min (egæl event series, Loophole, Berlin)
Live performance on theme migration: voice, movement, objects and electronics | 16 min (Montaro Salon, Berlin)
"3 D metal series part 1: Hull" | 31 min (Hošek Contemporary, Berlin)
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Solo set: tools, guitar, synthesizer and voice | 40 min (Kwia, Berlin)
Improvisation with Aaron Snyder: dance, voice and drum | 18 min (Gaswerksiedlung, Berlin)
3:33:08 duo debut with William "Bilwa" Costa | 33 min (This Is Not Art Festival, Klub Brno, Ostrava, CZ)
"White Write 2.0": dance, sound and installation | 1h 30min (Monopol, Berlin)
"4 lines of thoughts": dance, electronics and sound | 21 min (Grolmanstr. 58, Berlin)
Mehr Licht [mir so schlecht] with Bruno Pocheron and group | 42 min (Wiesenburg Berlin, Ausland Berlin)
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Improvisation: dance, voice and saxophone with Zhenya Strigalev | 15 min (XJAZZ Festival, Emmaus Kirche, Berlin)
TU BE with Claudio Puntin | 44 min (XJAZZ Festival, Gaswerksiedlung, Berlin)
Full CV available upon request