Forceful Catering
2022~2023
performance
live music
catering
“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.
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.
Credits for "Pound It!" 2022
supported by:
V2_Lab for the Unstable Media
music:
Rachwill Breidel
performer
Tingyi Jiang
Credits for "Forceful Catering" 2023
supported by:
WORM x Amarte Residency
music:
10_r3n
wood:
Marie Komatsu
costume:
Vincent Wong
Presentation:
2024.8.4~8
POSTCITY
Linz, AUS
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Ars Electronica
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O Days Festival
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Flevopark
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Synergy Art Festival
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Theater De Krakeling
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Amarte Wonderland
2023.5.13
Oedipus Brewery
Amsterdam, NL
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FIBER Festival
2022.8.11~12
Gommern, DE
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Traumburg Festival