Mengfan Wang and Moe Satt
In conversation with Erin Li
This panel brings together theatre director and choreographer Mengfan, visual and performance artist Moe, and curator Erin to explore their shared interest in how everyday performative expressions inspire choreography and art making. Through a lecture performance, Mengfan will attempt to relay a collective image, mother – woman – granny, found and felt in Shigushan village. The lived histories and spiritual practices of female bodies are transformed into a series of movements. From there derives shared memories of ‘bitterness’ (ku 苦), alluding to ‘being old’ and ‘growing old’ in the present. Moe will screen his short video Hands Around in Yangon (2012), introduce his new solo exhibition Rest the Thumbs on the Cheekbones at Delfina Foundation, and detail how his observation of everyday hand gestures in various cultures developed into recent experiments in expanding embodiment through instructions, participatory installations, and performances. Moe, Mengfan and Erin will then be in conversation to explore the intersections and varying contexts of their practices.
