Sharing something I’ve been sitting with for some time — a research statement reflecting what I’ve been thinking and making, tracing back from early investigations into structural violence, and evolving through ancestral memory, and voice.
Always more interested in conversation than conclusions. Reach out directly if any of this resonates, or raises questions for you. 🤍
This May 4–11th, I’ll be at ZKM Hertzlab for a research residency to develop the spatial sound composition for my ongoing transdisciplinary project 7-3 Trilogy.
Specifically 7-3-A: Sonic Mourning — a continuation of TRANCEFACIAL: Mobile Grief Temple (2025–2026). Working with the Sound Dome to build psychoacoustic weather in which an invented vocal language moves through memory reset.
Grateful to @lealukasikau and @zkmkarlsruhe for the support!
Photo by Jiajing Zhang
Documentation excerpt from [TF3.0]
Chapter III of TRANCEFACIAL: Mobile Grief Temple (2025)
A situated performance installation series on disappearance, displacement and resilience.
Enacted on the coastline of Daya Bay, Huizhou, China — 28 December 2025.
Concept, sound, performance, and installation: Dan Su (su dance110)
Assistance: Xiaoxiao Fan, causal_noise
Drone operation: Yuanchun Lu
Camera: Huangsheng, Mark
Residency: E-M Space
Kindly supported by Dayawan Xiayong Subdistrict Cultural Station, China
Research funded by Gwaertler Stiftung
For the full series, see /tracefacial
“Life is the flower of death; and death is the beginning of life.”
Grass, soil and sand on LED screen 243V from TRANCEFACIAL: Mobile Grief Tempel [TF3.0]
(2025)
[TF3.0]
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A moment equal to thousands of years waiting.
Until all greens turn metal-hard,
all electrons go wireless,
I seek the last follower in the ocean desert.
On raining days, my mirror looks bigger.
Yet it is disappearing.
The multimillions of counterfactuals live on.
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TRANCEFACIAL: Mobile Grief Temple [TF3.0]
Realized on the coastline of Daya Bay, Huizhou China
On December 28th 2025
Support from Dayawan Xiayong Subdistrict Cultural Station China, Gwaertler Stiftung, residency @emart_space , assistance from Xiaoxiao Fan, causal_noise, and drone by Yuanchun Lu, cameras by Huangsheng, and Mark.
[TF3.0]
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I am reborn the moment of liquid flooding its bounds.
Dead cells run down from my torso
while seawater seeping into my shoes.
Softly we exchange,
holding, bursting tears, spreading outwards,
into a universe I seem to have dreamt before,
yet now so real.
I can touch it with the tips of my fingers
that are touched by the ever-becoming land.
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Moments from the third chapter of TRANCEFACIAL: Mobile Grief Temple.
Co-created with the sea, wearable sound, transformed metal structure, bandage, digital device, and myself from the past chapters.
Thanks support from Dayawan Xiayong Subdistrict Cultural Station China and Gwaertler Stiftung
@fanxiaoxiao1022 and causal_noise for assisting
Residency @em_art_space
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