DAAD Gallery and Radial system, Berlin
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Nguyễn + Transitory
in the
frame of „SENSE – Geographies of Perception“
Artistic Direction, Music Composition,
Choreography and Concept
Nguyễn + Transitory
Performance and Choreography
Maoyi
Kamila Metwaly
Andrés Pinto Álvaro
Mieko Suzuki
Monica Vanesa Tedja
Stage Design and Costume
Lina Oanh Nguyễn
Light Design
Sanja Gergoric
Light Assistant
Ivan Bartsch
Cinematography and Cut
Asarela Orchidia Dewi
Stage Design Assistence
Seongji Jang
Production Management
Onur Agbaba
Chyai Ji
images © Asarela Orchidia Dewi
“Symphony Of Intimacies” is part of a perpetual work-in-progress which start-
ed in early 2018 with the piece “Bird Bird, Touch
Touch, Sing Sing”. For their presentation at Radial-
system in April, the duo have invited five performers that navigates between interdependency, vulnerability, closeness, disorientation and trust. These
themes will be explored as forms of collective re-
sistance.
The piece is built around a site-specific, structure-sensitive, touch-based sonic architectural
interface made especially for multiple performers
by Nguyễn + Transitory in collaboration with stage
designer Lina Oanh Nguyễn. Maoyi, Kamila Metwaly, Andrés Pinto Álvaro, Mieko Suzuki and Monica
Vanesa Tedja collectively transform sounds through
touch, attempting to fuse the body with the instru-
ment being played. The body not only touches the
instrument, but becomes a conductor as well, gen-
erating a composition live and in real time and con-
ducting the fluctuating electrical currents that are
transmitted into a modular synthesizer.
This dynamic diffuses classical relationships, roles
and hierarchies often present among director-com-
poser-performer constellations and creates a sit-
uation that allows the complexities of collective
agency to unfold. In this piece, touch becomes an
essential tool of communication, a carrier and receiver of sound, and a tool through which agencies are renegotiated and the collective is sustained.