The Circuit -
A Movement Scenario
collaborated with Vietnam-born & London-based artist Moi Tran
Born in Vietnam with Chinese Heritage, Moi Tran is an award winning
Artist, Researcher and Designer exploring intersections between
Contemporary Art and Performance. A refugee of the Vietnam War,
her work explores displacement, addressing historical undertones of
war, colonisation, immigration, and stereotyping tensions. She works in
Live Art, Text, Object-making, Installation, and Video to explore geopolitical
ideas as sites of knowledge production and ideas of protest in
the Diaspora community that address the value of personal capital and
the role of transmitted memory. The Circuit - A Movement Scenario is
an improvised, durational movement piece based on the act of walking
as performance and thinking, presented by female performers of East-
Asian heritage with a live sound score. The Circuit uses dual coloured
floor tape to demarcate a track varying in size and dependent on
location. While the walking movement precipitates the events in The
Circuit, the duration of the piece moves from emotive to the cerebral.
The women venture forth onto the track contemplating issues of
Diaspora, gender, intimacy, visibility, and unity. The Circuit explores a
process of "soft activism" using mere presence to confront, question,
and reclaim cultural and social misrepresentation. The arc of
movement develops over time and glitches surface amidst the routines,
gaining momentum, fragmenting the movement and imbuing the
atmosphere with charged energies that wax and wane. Open and
intimate, The Circuit manifests a viewing experience of physical and
psychological intensity.
Performer: Jodie Judy Lu YingChu, Makiko Aoyama, Jane Chan, Iris Chan, Sung Im Her, Hazel Lam
Sound & Costume: Moi Tran
Production Manager: Ria Samartzi
Collaborators Pool: Nadine Cordial Settele, Mei Mac, Kumiko Mendl, Jenny Logico Cruz, Yen Ching Lin, Hae Yeon Lim, Yung Yee Chen, Nhu Xuan Hua, Deborah Lim
Prague Quadrennial, Prague, June 2019.
SPILL Festival, London, Oct 2018.
Oval Space, London, Jan 2018.
Chelsea College of Arts, London, Jan 2018.