A Fly Enters. Immense Breath of the SEA: Residency

The pandemic is still very much here with us in 2021, both Taiwan and some Southeast Asian countries are seeing a higher number of infections. Can artists create or narrate stories freely in such conditions?

And with these major issues holding the public’s attention, is it possible for practitioners to shift the public’s focus on the equally important quotidian experiences and the often neglected nuances? As a solitary individual unit, how do we express the need of wanting to connect, or the desire to be heard and seen. These were the starting points for A Fly Enters. Immense Breath of The Sea project in 2020.

Therefore, this is an extension of 2020’s project which invites artists from Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand to take part in a sound and experimental music-making process. This year, we re-invited artists, creators, researchers, and curators from Taiwan and Southeast Asia, including new members from Myanmar to engage sound and experimental music-making as the common language, to explore the intersection between culture and art practice within different individuals and communities. ∀ Flλ ≡nters. ∥mmense βreath of ⊥he ∫ea：ℝesidency is premised on the previous project’s focus on sonic experimentation and collaboration in form of a remote online art residency.

This is not a typical residency that requires traveling to a specific institution or place, what replaces these prerequisite conditions prompts the question of can we reside into a relationship without physical space and social interaction? What are the ways to share, create and practice with familiar yet distant friends from abroad? Is it possible to ignite resonance and empathy to construct a new structure and residence? How do we record, extent, and share this public yet intimate distant relationship?

A fly, the sea, flight and exhale could either suggest a theme or a concept; or it is about a kind of gesture or movement; it could also be regarded as a milieu or an impression. It invites us to pay attention to smaller things in an enormous landscape, to pick up neglected sounds in our surroundings, and to feel the boundless ocean where we are situated. It is like the gesture of stretching an umbrella which creates a makeshift space shared between individuals, a temporary shelter that allows private exchanges. As we drift into our fragmented reality, this project attempts to create a gravity pull between individuals to create a new mix of sounds, by forming nodes between seemingly unrelated people, things and objects, and to experience seeing and listening through compound eyes and ears. Participating Curators and Artists

Wok the Rock  (Indonesia) / Curator

Musica Htet  (Myanmar) / Curator

Alice Hui-Sheng Chang (Taiwan) / Curator

Pix Goh  (Taiwan) / Curator

Wei-lun Chen  (Taiwan) / Curator

Penwadee Nophaket Manont (Thailand) / Curator

Soifa Saenkhamkon (Thailand) / Curator

Merv Espina  (the Philippines) / Curator

Mariah Reodica  (the Philippines) / Curator

Rani Jambak  (Indonesia) / Artist

Ramaputratantra  (Indonesia) / Artist

Kam Seng Aung (Myanmar) / Artist

Pinky Htut Aung  (Myanmar) / Artist

P.O.E.M (Moe)  (Myanmar) / Artist

Sammy Moore  (Myanmar) / Artist

Chiyou Dean (Taiwan) / Artist

Lica Jia-Jie Han (Taiwan) / Artist

LL (Taiwan) / Artist

Hsiao-Feng Lin  (Taiwan) / Artist

Tseng Po-Hao  (Taiwan) / Artist

Sum-Sum Shen (Taiwan) / Artist

Rex Chen  (Taiwan) / Artist

Yen-Ting Hsu (Taiwan) / Artist

Yujun Ye (Taiwan) / Artist

Anis Nagasevi (Thailand) / Artist

Mahasarakham Mid-field Artspace (Thailand) / Artist

Mark Omega  (the Philippines) / Artist

Organizers

OCAC & SEA plateaus