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During their residency at HMK, artist Raffia Li develops a collaborative performance which rearranges the relationship between body, time and accessibility. Remixing time through bodily poetics culminates from an on-going dialogue with invited guest artists, collaborators, organization and visitors about the systematic and political struggles around access making, but also the creativity and poetics that can derive from it.
The exhibition, with the visual remnants of the performance as well as a presentation of Raffia's research through videos and drawings, will be on view until September 9 at Hotel Maria Kapel.
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Raffia Li (TA/They/She)’s practice has been focusing on working with “otherwise” languages as poetic and political space for relation making/transforming, challenging and interrupting normative way of knowledge and value production. They tilt in slow dialoguing. They work with poetry melting in minor edges/senses, in forms of performances, videos or installations. Their art practice is deeply influenced by poetry, theatre of the oppressed, reading of Zhuangzi, their field research over shadow puppetry and their rituals in China, Thailand, Indonesia and India, their learning experience of being in a sign language art collective Shape of Language & their actions in the hutongs and streets, running a community art festival, diary/letter exchanges with friends, their MA study at Dutch Art Institute, observations of their dreaming state, and the river near Grandma 芹’s yard.
Miiel Ferraez is a multifunctional tool born in Mexico. It works on sound and video performances that work with and against the medium of power.
Yunfan Tian lives with progressive spinal muscular atrophy and moves with wheelchairs. She is an audio description maker and narrator, she writes poetry and makes art to explore feelings of freedom. Her audio description works range from script writing to online and offline recording, for dance art films, documentaries, pioneering experimental theatres, touch tours, dubbing for VR installations, museum tour training, body-based practices and improvisation theatres, which have been presented at 2021 UK-China Contemporary Culture festival, the 3rd UK-China Disability Arts Forum, Goethe-Institut Peking among others. (Translated from written Chinese.)
Yanfei Li “Hello everyone! I am Yanfei. In 2016, we started the Shape of Language art group to promote and advocate sign language and Deaf culture by sign language art projects.I love to create and enjoy the fun that comes with the process. Sign language art making is a cool and meaningful for me. My focus is to explore different combinations of hand movements to express and convey various ideas and emotions. I hope sign language art could let more people feel the charm of sign language and get to know the Deaf community.” (Translated from written Chinese.)