Choy Ka Fai. CosmicWander: Expedition
Cooperation with international festival Tanz im August, presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer
6 – 22 August 2021, 12 – 8 pm
Maschinenhaus M0
Over the past decade, Berlinbased Singaporean artist Choy Ka Fai has delved into the metaphysics of the human body. CosmicWander is an ongoing project for which the artist ventured across Asia to study the spiritual practices and shamanic dance cultures of different peoples and communities. On his travels he met over 50 shamans and filmed extraordinary dance rituals and immersive trance experiences. The exhibition CosmicWander: Expedition presents his research to date in the form of an immersive installation inspired by the practices he observed in Singapore, Indonesia, Siberia, Taiwan and Vietnam. In meshing new technologies with ancient rituals, Choy interweaves his encounters with “altered states” with personal accounts of spirituality and his own speculations on the posthuman body.