"syun" von jee chan. Performance-Reihe: feeling backwards, across tongues

In the organizer's words:

jee chan (xier/xies/dier) deals choreographically with untold, unrecognizable and forgotten stories. Similar to the artist Charmaine Poh, jee chan explores artistic strategies to evoke what has been made invisible. Xie's work revolves around questions of the repressed body and its performative possibilities and deals with themes such as grief, loss and colonial terror - particularly in the context of the island regions of Southeast Asia.

The performance "syun" emerges from the moment jee chan's maternal grandmother was forcibly expelled by the invading Imperial Japanese Army in 1937 - a memory she unexpectedly shared in great detail with jee chan while they were practicing Chinese calligraphy together in 2016 and 2017. Shaken, jee chan listened to her grandmother's stories. In "syun", xier listens to the grandmother's recorded voice and transcribes the words in calligraphic ink on a roll of white paper. Intimate, historical experiences of violence break open in the space and manifest themselves in the artist's feverish gestures. The performance points to the continued presence of colonial power structures that still shape bodies, language and lives today - in the context of global atrocities, militarized societies and controlled genocides.

Free of charge. Limited number of places. Please register.
The performance is part of the multi-part performance series "Feeling backwards, across tongues". The next intervention will follow on 29.1.2026.

Price information:

Please register. Limited number of places.