WHITE

WRITE

three hours audio-visual performance installation by. Dan Su

Studio Weichselstraße 48, Berlin, February 2020

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Does writing still have a future? Compared to the process of automatically engraving data in an invisible cloud, writing by hand on a physical format seems to be outdated. In an eye-blink, the data are written, but manual writing requires one to slow down, one word after another. As Vilém Flusser stated, “The result is a new experience of time, that is, linear time, a stream of unstoppable progress, of dramatic unrepeatability, of framing, in short, history.” 

If writing survives in this digital world, perhaps the focus should be on how to write. In this three-hour audio-visual performance installation, the body is the medium of writing. Following the stream of consciousness, body creates the dialogue between the inner and outer motion. WHITE refers to the emptiness or nothingness that is writing. In this process, I observe what comes from within, and spontaneously transport with my body in writing. By focusing on the process instead of the meaning, the Chinese character sometimes transforms into the meaningless line that follows its own direction and rhythm. Furthermore, observing what's written gives feedback to what's coming next. The loops continue in the motion of an open system which is the host of the emptiness and nothingness. What is foreseeable is not the future but the current moment.

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video footages. Melika Akbari Asl and Karsten Dirk Gloger

video edit. Dan Su

curator. Claire Federica Crescini

technical support. Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch
studio support. Thomas Georgi

photo.  Melika Akbari Asl and Andreea Hriscu