Workshop with Alchemyverse: WEND

26.04.2024 / 16:00 – 17:30

Gathering to recollect, connect, and resonate with geological memories, Alchemyverse presents WEND, a performance workshop that gestures our eyes and ears, bodies and spirits towards the telluric, the decaying, the transitory, and the unfixed. In the work, both geologic and ecological relics encode, meld, and activate each other to perform the becoming of an interspecific entity. WEND redirects the passive spectator’s gaze, pivoting instead to stage an embodied and ecological rhythm of time and perception. The workshop invites the audience to partake through close observation, auditory attentiveness, tactile exploration, and resonance. 

The workshop is hosted by The Artists-in-Berlin Program and SONCITIES in the framework of Concrete Dreams of Sound. The participation is free and does not require any previous knowledge. The workshop language is English. Due to limited capacities please register in advance with an informal email to Sebastian Dürer: duerer.berlin(AT)daad.de.

Alchemyverse was founded by artists Bicheng Liang and Yixuan Shao in New York. The duo began their collaboration at the MFA program at Columbia University. Bicheng Liang received his BFA from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. Yixuan Shao received her BA from University of California, San Diego. They combine their respective knowledge bases and skills in printmaking and sound studies, with intensive field research to form their collaborative practice. Recent selected solo and group exhibitions include International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York; Praise Shadows Gallery, Massachusetts; Asia Art Archive in America, New York; The Bishop Museum, Hawai’i; Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University, New York, and among others. Residencies include LMCC Governors Island, New York; Desert 23°S, La Wayaka Current, Chile; AAA-A Zine Residency, Brooklyn; and the Rabbit Island Residency, Lake Superior, Michigan. Currently, they are in residence at ISCP.

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Photo: “WEND-Performance” by Alchemyverse (Bicheng Liang & Yixuan Shao), 2023