Forceful Catering

"Forceful Catering" is evolved from "Pound it!" and is a project develped during WORM x Amarte residency 2023. For this version, I was invited to by Kexin Hao to collaborate creating a soundtrack.

Text about the performance piece by Kexin:

“Forceful Catering” is a choreographic and musical performance growing out from the East/Southeast Asian tradition of preparing sticky rice cakes (mochi). The rice pounding utensils become experimental percussion instruments to produce bass beats to the electronic music; the pounding movements develop along the increasing viscosity of the rice.

Inspired by the traditional Chinese folklores and rice pounding work songs, this project tries to expand the rice pounding song to contain new narratives reflecting our current urgencies: can a woman’s body become, contrary to a recipient, a giver of forces and penetration? What if fierce acts don’t direct to violence and harm, but a process leading to nourishment and care? How does the transformation of rice translate the cycle and entanglement of birth and death, fertility and decay?

The performance brings out a clubbing experience and a catering service to the audience. “Forceful Catering” thrives on feeding the ones who treasure beats and intimacy.

presentation:

• Traumburg Festival (DE)
• Test_Lab: Summer Session, V2_ (NL)
• FIBER Festival (NL)
• AFFECT, final presentation WORM x Amarte Residency, WORM (NL)
• FeverTraumburg, Poing Clubnight (NL)
• The Women Gather, Het Nieuwe Instituut (NL)
• On Point Of Climax, iii (NL)
• Amarte Wonderland, Theater De Krakeling Amsterdam (NL)