Back in Taiwan for only two weeks, yet it already feels like several months have passed. Perhaps life in Europe was too dreamlike, while being in Taiwan feels all too real. Still, I’m deeply grateful for every opportunity along the way. Without AKA, this trip to Berlin would never have happened. The first two collaborations began with our dance company inviting him into cross-disciplinary creation, while this year, the laser itself became the protagonist. Creating within a former brewery space was once again challenging, intense, and incredibly exciting.
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Being able to step away from the role of director for a while and return to the state of an independent dancer again felt truly precious and fulfilling
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2026 Solo Exhibition by Fang-Yu Chang
Like Dew And Like Lightning
Laser Artworks: Aka Chang
Performers: Hsiao-Wei Hsieh, Hsiao-Ting Hsieh
Photography: Jo-Yu Kao
Venue: Monopol Berlin
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Like Dew And Like Lightning
Act II — Nature: “Twins”
The performers wear headpieces symbolizing the Formosan sambar deer, an endemic species of Taiwan, transforming the body into a transitional being suspended between human, nature, and spirit animal. Human emotions and desires flow through the body—anxiety, awe, jealousy, excitement, fear, and sorrow intertwine alongside instinctive competition and struggle. The work responds to the increasingly blurred relationships between species, ecology, and technology from a post-human perspective.
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Ring_Kosmologia
Act III — Spirituality: “Sublimation”
The performance site was originally a place of distillation, symbolizing transformation and refinement, and was itself transformed into a space of “sublimation.” As bodies move through the fluid environment constructed by laser light, they appear suspended within a liminal realm between the earthly and the beyond. The work once again echoes the exhibition’s title, Like Dew And Like Lightning—all things are as fleeting as mist and as instantaneous as lightning. Life is transient and illusory, vanishing as easily as morning dew, reminding us of impermanence and the emptiness inherent in all things.
Please join us this Friday for the opening of @aka_chang 's solo exhibition at @monopolberlin . I'll be contributing sound to one of the pieces. Really looking forward to seeing the dewy light, sound and the dance movements all come together!
Location: Monopol Berlin, Provinzstraße 40-44, 13409 Berlin
Time: 17th April
19:00 Artist talk
20:00 Opening performance
Event info link in bio.
#laser #dew #diamondsutra
#openingingNight
#BerlinExhibition
#berlinevents
#dance #performance #soundart
#audiovisual #taiwanart #contemporaryart
《The Awake》has received the XR Competition Special Mention – Humanity Award at NewImages Festival!
Thanks to Directors Hsieh Hsiao-Wei and Hsieh Hsiao-Ting of InTW Studio.
Thanks to the Taiwan Motor Neuron Disease Association), as well as the ALS patients and families who supported and inspired this work.
Thanks to our technical partner, Funique VR Studio.
Thanks to all the dancers and crew members who contributed to this project.
Thanks to NewImages Festival and all the juries.
And thanks to everyone who has offered us support, encouragement, and help along the way.
This honor belongs to all of you. We are deeply grateful. 🙏🎉❤️
《The Awake》在NewImages Festival 獲得 XR Competition Special Mention Humanity Award (人文精神特別提及獎)!
感謝InTW舞影工作室的謝筱瑋、謝筱婷導演
感謝漸凍人協會(中華民國運動神經元疾病病友協會),以及支持這部作品的ALS病友和家人們
感謝技術團隊Funique VR Studio
感謝所有參與這部作品的舞者與團隊夥伴們
感謝NewImages Festival和每一位評審
感謝一路上給予我們協助、鼓勵、支持的所有人
這份獎項的榮耀屬於大家!深深感謝!🙏🎉❤️
#VR360 #newimages
#ALSdisease #DanceVR
作品《Before the star fall|星星劃過天空之前》以雷射光穩定、冷冽、精準的特性為象徵,呈現宇宙運行與時間流轉的永恆,映照出萬物在變與不變之間的存在。舞者身著天空意象的服裝,戴著巨型白帽,如月亮、如星球、如夢想、如慾望在夜色中浮動,穿梭其間。此刻的東興圳化作暗夜星河,承載萬物祈願,也見證生命的興衰節奏。
《The work Before the Star Fall | 星星劃過天空之前》 uses the stable, cool, and precise qualities of laser light as a symbol to evoke the eternity of cosmic motion and the flow of time, reflecting the existence of all things as they oscillate between change and constancy. The dancers, dressed in sky-inspired costumes and wearing oversized white hats, drift through the night like moons, planets, dreams, and desires, floating and weaving among one another. In this moment, Dongxing Canal is transformed into a dark, star-filled river, carrying the wishes of all beings and bearing witness to the rhythms of life’s rise and decline.
作品發想|張方禹 、謝筱婷、謝筱瑋
雷射光設計|張方禹 @aka_chang
表演統籌|謝筱婷 @hsieh.h.ting
舞 者|謝筱瑋 @hsiaoweihsieh 、吳采柔 @cholewu8011 、陳學愉 @michelledancelife 、高語婕 @yuchieh_dance 、黃婷徽 @h_ueibe.s
音樂設計|楊茵涵 @yongcage2002 、鄭乃銓 @daniel760401
服裝設計|JUBY CHIU @juby0101
攝影|高若有
2025東興圳光藝節 @dongxing.canal.light.art.fest
主辦單位|新竹縣政府、新竹縣議會
承辦單位|新竹縣政府文化局
協辦單位|財團法人新竹縣文化基金會
贊助單位|頎邦科技股份有限公司
執行單位|都市藝術
#performance #laserart #lightinstallation #lightsculpture #dance