JAMIE MAN / 文珮玲

‘My body, Writes into your flesh The poem You make of me’ — Audre Lorde „ETUDE #16161D“, was the last creation I made to finish my 38th orbit around the sun — a study in hook suspension, live musical performance and darkness (ca.30’). Thank you for an incredible ride. I’m already excited for the next spin!! Hex code #16161D, otherwise known as Eigengrau is the unique colour the human eye perceives in the absence of light or complete darkness. In the space of this darkness, with Audre Lorde’s words, I imagined a time when all bodies have equal rights and autonomy, when erotic expression no longer involves negotiation with systemic powers sick with bigotry and magical thinking, and when the expression of the body in joy and symbiosis with their chosen others is a birthright lived fully and freely, indiscriminately. In this time, how will we play out our existence? What will it feel like? How will it sound? Perhaps, if we are able to imagine it and design it, we will find ourselves closer to that moment than we ever thought possible? Flesh-hook body suspension was born partly from rituals for Shiva; a non-being, divine darkness whose power — unlike light, which has a beginning and end — is always and eternal. ETUDE #16161D was commissioned by @wienerfestwochen (2025) and first performed in the programme of Akademie Zweite Moderne curated by Jana Beckmann on 8 June 2025 at the @radiokulturhaus Radiokulturhaus. Creation and Musical Composition, @jamieman___ Flesh-hook suspension performance, @nixiiemakes and @jamieman___ Suspension facilitation and performance, @philippadowney with @stateofblissuk Musicians of @klangforum_wien Harp and effects pedals, @miriamoverlach Double Bass and effects pedals, @carmencontrabas Percussion, Lukas Schiske Electronics and Sound design, Christina Bauer Suspension point design, Roman Streuselberger Special thanks to @tamsmith444 , @lucylikestofly , Leonora Schreib, Petra Torky, technicians of ORF Radiokulturhaus, the composers and participants of the Akademie Zweite Moderne and @milorau4 excerpt from film @shapesanddistortions #hooksuspension #hookfamily #hooklove #audrelorde #recreation

2022 was the year we plunged the @theatrechatelet into complete darkness for the ressurrection of extinct bird cries in CONNAISSEZ-VOUS LE CRI DU CHOCARD? for Orchestra, light and darkness. The voices of the dead imprinted onto me and found their voice in this piece. These were the extinct Kauai O’o (last recorded in 1987) the Moa, extinct 700 years ago, whose call was re-constructed by scientists using fossil information and Mahler’s Cuckoo of musical fiction. Written for the same orchestration as Gustav Mahler’s Blumine - the orphaned movement of Mahler’s First Symphony - Connaissez-vous le cri du chocard? contains various gestural references to Mahler’s First Symphony. It is an antiphon to the dead and a question for those who love the living. Full recording is available on Youtube. Commissioned by @orchestredechambredeparis first rehearsed at their home @philharmoniedeparis and performed at @theatrechatelet 24 March 2022. Supported by @diaphonique and @sacem . #jamieman #newmusic #rilke #audreylorde #extinctbirds #extinctbirdsproject

WHEN THE RAINBOW BECOMES SKIN (21’) video + live solo musical improvisation on any instrument(s) @de_bosbar 23 April 2025, 22hr for RITES OF NOISE concert series, curated by Tomas Serrien and @achieldevlerk captured and streamed on @we_are_various Video includes slow-motion capture from a hook-suspension entitled RE:BIRTH created with @stateofblissuk , in Bristol 2024. Huge thanks to the sound and technician team @de_bosbar . 📷 @tserrien #impossimalia #hooksuspension

VULTURES/ བྱ་རྒོད། (creation) za 31 okt 20:00, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke, Gent Concertzaal vr 05 mrt 20.00, DeSingel, Antwerpen Blauwe Zaal BL!NDMAN brengt een extatisch muzikaal ritueel onder een cirkelende schaduw ‘Kom op voor lawaai en pleit voor vervuiling, juichend om de onzalige fusie van dier en machine.’ Donna Haraway’s beruchte ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985) is een oproep tot radicale revolutie en viert monsterlijkheid en hybriditeit, terwijl het met duivels plezier ingaat tegen de ‘natuurlijke orde’. Haar woorden vormen de ondertoon van 'བྱ་རྒོད། / Vultures' een nieuw werk gecomponeerd door de Brits-Chinese Jamie Man 文珮玲 in opdracht van BL!NDMAN. Met zang, saxofoons, elektronica en een militaire dronespeaker (of is het een gier?) ontstaat een extatisch muzikaal ritueel, geïnspireerd door Tibetaanse hemelbegrafenissen. BL!NDMAN [sax] Pieter Pellens, sopraansax, electronics, loops & drone speakers Hendrik Pellens, altsax, electronics, loops & drone speakers Piet Rebel, tenorsax, electronics & drone speakers Sebastiaan Cooman, bariton- en bassax, loops & drone speakers Thomas Demeyer, drone-operator Jamie Man 文珮玲 & Tomas Serrien, artistieke leiding & dramaturgie — BL!NDMAN presents an ecstatic musical ritual under a circling shadow ‘Insist on noise and advocate pollution rejoicing in the illegitimate fusions of animal and machine’ Donna Haraway’s infamous ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985) is a call for radical revolution and celebrates monstrosity and hybridity, while devilishly defying the ‘natural order’. Her words form the undertone of 'བྱ་རྒོད། / Vultures’, a new work composed by the British-Chinese Jamie Man 文珮玲 commissioned by BL!NDMAN. With vocals, saxophones, electronics, and a military drone speaker (or is it a vulture?), an ecstatic musical ritual emerges, inspired by Tibetan sky burials. BL!NDMAN [sax] Pieter Pellens, soprano sax, electronics, loops & drone speakers Hendrik Pellens, alto sax, electronics, loops & drone speakers Piet Rebel, tenor sax, electronics & drone speakers Sebastiaan Cooman, baritone and bass sax, loops & drone speakers Thomas Demeyer, drone operator Jamie Man 文珮玲 & Tomas Serrien, artistic direction & dramaturgy #dji

RE:BIRTH Inbetween a suspended foetus and a thing with wings, RE:BIRTH is a ten hook suspension that was created to mark meaning into the repetitive nature of birthdays. Footage from the suspension session which I recorded at 240fps later grew into a piece for projected film + live sound improvisation called: WHEN THE RAINBOW BECOMES SKIN which was first performed in Antwerp @de_bosbar in the concert series RITES OF NOISE (2025) curated by @tserrien and Casper de Geus. #jamieman #hooksuspension #whentherainbowbecomesskin #impossimalia @stateofblissuk @jamieman___

Last Wednesday, Jamie Man performed “Transubstantiation” at the opening of MEGA Art Fair in Milan (@megaartfair ). A first-of-its-kind piece exploring the musical and theatrical expressions of English terroirs, “Transubstantiation” begins with a deliberate orchestration of sounds recorded from the winemaking process at Hundred Hills winery (@hundredhillswine ). Over the duration of the performance, its narrative increasingly embraces chance and improvisation. The Milan performance introduces the addition of a lobster, surrendering to the absurdity and pleasure of consumption. Jamie Man (@jamieman___ ) is an interdisciplinary artist working across opera, installation, & performance. With a practice grounded in sound and its relation to poetic presence, Jamie’s work spans from staging large symphonic orchestral forces to live flesh-hook body suspension performance. As a conductor Jamie works internationally, often premiering both her own compositions & those of other contemporary composers. Wyn was invited to take part in MEGA by Teaspoon Projects (@teaspoonprojects ). 📸: @cleeopatraxx & @tarekeffat

水托邦/ HYDROTOPIA , film and live performance on 30 January 2026, 21.30 UBIK at @worm_rotterdam with @iffr In extreme cold, the human body can turn against itself through paradoxical undressing: failing nerves mistake freezing for heat, compelling the dying to shed their last protection. In 水托邦 (Hydrotopia), hydrophones frozen into a block of ice capture the material disintegration of their frozen body as a projected film gradually emerges into clarity. The film follows artist Jamie Man suspended by hooks pierced through flesh in a British winter landscape, practicing rituals rooted in Shiva-dedicated traditions that explore a state of perpetual non-being. As the ice surrenders its form and the image sharpens into focus, transformation itself becomes the subject: matter abandoning one state for another, the body held suspended between dissolution and emergence. Film by @smdcem Chiemi Shimada Flesh hook suspension, Jamie Man Flesh hook Suspension design and fascilitation, Tam Smith (@stateofblissuk ) Sound performance and sound design, Jamie Man Producer, Tim Leyendekker Producer, Borre van Leeuwen Produced by WORM with International Film Festival Rotterdam Special thanks to Morgan Quaintance, Jim Farrant, @marijn.cinjee and the volunteers who helped build the vibroacoustic floor photo: still from the film by Chiemi Shimada

SOLD-OUT sorry. Will post more info soon…. @worm_rotterdam @iffr

manspreading 😏 @citedesartsparis 2025 #beginningoftheend #apc

Jamie Man 文珮玲 ist eine britisch-chinesische Komponistin. Sie nutzt die Formen der Oper, Live-Performance und Darkroom-Installation, um Arbeiten zu schaffen, die sich mit der poetischen Mystik des transtopischen Körpers beschäftigen. Jamie Man kreiert physiologische Phänomene wie auditive und visuelle Illusionen, die mit Lichtskulpturen und Infraschall erzeugt werden. Sie erhielt Aufträge u. a. vom London Symphony Orchestra, dem Philharmonia Orchestra und dem San Francisco Symphony. 📌8. und 9. Juni: Konzerte der Akademie Zweite Moderne mit dem Klangforum Wien Jamie Man 文珮玲 is a British-Chinese composer. She uses the forms of opera, live performance and dark room installations to create works primarily concerned with music and the poetic mystery of the transtopian body. Moulding physiological phenomena such as auditory illusions and visual afterimages created with light sculptures and infrasound, she has received commissions from the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony, among others. #festwochen2025 #freierepublikwien #freerepublicofvienna #viennafestival #akademiezweitemoderne #academysecondmodernism #vienna #wien Foto: M.A.

I’ll be performing CELESTIAL PALPITATIONS in London for analogue slide projector and live electronics w/ @smdcem at @cafeotodalston in March amongst a line-up of many wonderful things curated by Morgan Quaintance. Looking forward to being ‘home’.

COMPOSER UNDER CONSTRUCTION At Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Everything is dressed beautifully here. @citedesartsparis #resurrection #whentherainbowbecomesskin #newopera