We started the year with a loud scream and conclude it with a constructive dialogue.

In the emerging phase of the 2020 pandemic the students created the life event “2121.2.1.0” an installation that challenged the relation between privileged and unprivileged situations. In an installation spread over two floors the students set up two distinct experiences; one that engages the audience to produce artefacts for an unseen elite and another that allows these selected group to control what is performed and manufactured for them a la card. Both experiences are utterly disrupted by the performers and brought together in a revolution. As an eerie precursor of what was to come just a few days later, the audience wore mask as part of the events and is experiencing the performances placed in isolated positions. Continuing the investigation of privilege versus unprivileged the second event in June became an festival bridging the virtual and the real. With physical venues in Shanghai and Seoul and sets in London the students created with “solo dialogues” the studios first truly global event. In a live 3-day festival the audience had different means and privilege of access within degrees of virtuality and reality.

The scream at the start of the year turned into tangible action of togetherness, using creativity to overcome boundaries and bringing individuals together in times of separation.

The MFA students of phase two delivered a series of events in March. Effy Yuan Gu created with “Iterating” a performance that reflected the control of technology on our lives. Nasha Bahasoean adapted with her project “Lawik Bakaba” Indonesia traditional dance forms to show to global aaudience issues of environmental pollution. Li’er Chen constructed with her group “Studio” the exhibition 1:1 an object of particular precision and calm reflection.

All projects of the year developed answers to the notion of achieving results through initiative and negotiations of applied networks and to overcome unprecedented obstacles, not through an impotent scream but through a creative applied solution.

AAIS 2019/20 Team:

Nasha Bahasoean, Yihan Bai, Li’er Chen, Yuan Gu, Elyssa Sykes-smith, Patarita Tassanarapan, Jie Wang, Xiyuan Wang, Yuan Xiang, Yixin
Ye, Seoyoun Yun, Kexin Zhang (Alphabetised by Surname)




AAIS Tutors:

Programme Director: Theo Lorenz

Programme R&D: Tanja Siems

Studio Master: David McAlmont

Curation: Andreia Garcia, Noa Segev, Hila Shemer

Production: Argyris Angeli, Mona Camille, Kyriaki Nasioula

Video & Dramaturgy: Heiko Kalmbach

Audio-visual: Joel Newman

Choreography: Malgorzata Dzierzon, Patricia Okenwa, Renaud Wiser

Music: Andrew Dean

Collaborators:
2121.21.2.0:

Dance and Choreography: Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, MA/MFA Choreography
Choreographer/Performer: Robbie Bird, Ting-Ning Wen
Performer: Tuesdae Houston, Franziska Böhm, Pin-Hsin Wang

Costume design: Jing Xu

Live music: Alexandros Makedonas

Live performance: Katie Burks (choreographer), Axelle De Groote (Performer), Isaac Banks (Performer)

DJ: Max Bentler

Solo Dialogues:
Choreographer and Performer: Ting-ning Wen
Performer in Seoul: Haero Kang, Hui-Eun Lee

Choreographer & Performer in Shanghai: Andi Hu, Yingchi Lin (Yingchi Dance Theater), Aiping Xu

Performers in London: Cien Li, Yihao Sun

Thank you for kind support:
Labtech, Camden Market, Trinity Laban, Dsk Gallery in Seoul at Nextmixing Gallery in Shanghai, Twosides

Special Thanks to:
Tuo Lin, Lumia Liu, Thourayya Kreidieh, Dongsoo Koo, Mark Morris, Miraj Ahmed, Paul Crosby, Nerma Cridge, Tony Thatcher, Olivier van den Hende, Yoav Ronel