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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.
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:
2024.9.27
WORM
Rotterdam, NL
performance
2024.8.4~8
POSTCITY
Linz, AUS
performance
Ars Electronica
2024.8.2
tofu collective x O Days
Copenhagen, DK
performance
O Days Festival
2024.7.26~27
Flevopark
Amsterdam, NL
performance
Synergy Art Festival
2024.3.26
Theater De Krakeling
Amsterdam, NL
performance
Amarte Wonderland
2024.3.9
iii
The Hague, NL
performance
2024.3.8
Het Nieuwe Instituut
Rotterdam, NL
performance
2023.12.9
Poing Clubnight
Rotterdam, NL
performance
2023.10.14
WORM
Rotterdam, NL
performance
2023.5.13
Oedipus Brewery
Amsterdam, NL
performance
FIBER Festival
2022.9.8
V2
Rotterdam, NL
performance
2022.8.11~12
Gommern, DE
performance
Traumburg Festival
performance at iii, photo by Helena Roig
performance at iii, photo by Helena Roig
performance at iii, photo by Helena Roig
performance at iii, photo by Helena Roig
performance at Ars Electronica.
performance at Ars Electronica
performance at Traumburg, photo by Louis Jaccoud
performance at WORM
performance at V2, photo by Lavinia Xausa
performance at V2, photo by Lavinia Xausa