Dan Su (a.k.a. su dance110) is a transdisciplinary artist, composer and performer who works with sound and movement in experiments, compositions, improvisations, conceptual frameworks, performances, installations, experimental contemporary music, 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 for further knowing.
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 corporeal movements, actions, voice, improvisations and experimentations with acoustic instruments, objects, electronics, space, and situations. Shaping the characters/elements in relation to the larger structures/contexts plays an important role in their composition.
su dance110 creates work in a “Raw, Pure & Uncompromising” way. They studied 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.). Hybridising scientific and artistic thinking, they situate 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
2022 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
2021 unmeasurement | composition for construction-site performance: Road Maintenance Series Nr.01, 52 min
DTM | composition for performance: Dark Twisted Mind, 32 min
2020 Stille Oper | composition for performance: Riss, 20 min
White Write | soundscape for performance: WHITE WRITE 白 写, 3 hour
2019 Chicken Soup IIII | composition for dance performance: On an attempt of a chicken soup, 21 min
Music Release
2023 Gentle Brutality | solo record, in progress
3:33:08 | collaboration with William "Bilwa" Costa, LP, in progress
2022 Pe-13.or0 | collaboration with Claudio Puntin, LP
2021 Game0: 110 | solo debut multimedia album
2020 Chicken Soup IIII | EP
Blue Eyes | single
2019 Today I am | single
Performance, Installation and Choreography Production
2022 3 D metal series part 1: Marble Mine | site-specific performance (Las Galeras, DR)
2021 Gentle Brutality | Concert 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)
2020 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)
2019 On an attempt of a chicken soup | Solo performance (Ada studio, Berlin)
2018 I EYE I | Trio dance performance (Tanzfabrik, Berlin)
Ready to Explode | Trio dance performance (Uferstudio, Berlin)
2017 Roots | Solo performance (UW-Madison, U.S.)
Visual and Mixed Media
Fragmented digital art listed on dancesu
Short Film
2021 Game0 : 110 | full length film for music album Game0 : 110 (Berlin)
2020 | Music video (Berlin)
2020 On Zone and Gap 区 间 | Experimental short (Berlin)
Breath Span | Poem film (Albi, France)
Erosion Project | Dance film features brutalist architecture (premiered at Oberhausen Film Festival, Madison, U.S.)
Pong plays | Music video (Berlin)
2019 Blue Eyes | Music video (Salzburg, Austria)
2018 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)
2017 Dare to Dance in Public | Site-specific dance performance (Berlin)
Next Door | Dance film (Vienna)
Verboten | Experimental short (Vienna)
Live Act
2022
Experimental concert series "Concert for 1 person"
Hacklab finale | evening show (CTM Festival, Kunsthaus Bethanien, Berlin)
Solo live set: "E Flyming" computer, synthesizer, voice | 32 min (Loophole, Berlin)
Live performance on theme migration: voice, movement and electronics | 16 min (Montaro Salon, Berlin)
3 D metal series part 1: Hull | 31 min (Hošek Contemporary, Berlin)
3 D metal series part 1: Marble Mine | 42 min (Las Galeras, DR)
2021
Solo set: tools, guitar, synthesizer and voice | 40 min (Kwia, Berlin)
Improvisation: dance, voice and drum with Aaron Snyder | 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 | 1h 30min (Monopol, Berlin)
4 lines of thoughts | 21 min (Grolmanstr. 58, Berlin)
Mehr Licht [mir so schlecht] with Bruno Pocheron and group | 42 min (Wiesenburg Berlin, Ausland Berlin)
2020
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)
Collaboration Projects
with Center for Mind and Brain | upcoming music album
with William "Bilwa" Costa | music project 3:33:08
with Claudio Puntin | upcoming music album
with Bruno Pocheron | interactive sound, movement and light project
with Zhenya Strigalev | music and dance videos funded by Rainy Jazz label
with Neumond Electronics | interactive sound and movement performance
collective co.lab | festival for collaboration methodology
Full CV available upon request