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"I realized I could see the universe ... in an internal way."

PechaKucha 20x20 PRESENTATION OF THE DAY:
"Becoming Chimerik"

http://www.pechakucha.org/presentations/becoming-chimerik

Artist Sammy Chien highlights (at PKN Richmond, BC Vol. 2) his life-long journey of creating art and defining himself. He details his quest to increasingly connect with and act as a messenger for the spiritual world through his creative works.

Six Fest

site-specific performance collaboration by Darcy Mcmurray, Bal Areli Moran & Sammy Chien 
New Media Sound + Live Drawing + Movement

I want to thank Darcy for inviting me to this experimental collaboration, what a wonderful dance artist full of creative and fun ideas! I was able to perform with Areli before she takes off to Mexico, and also got to participate one of the most organic, romantic and inspiring festival+wedding I've ever experienced. This is what art can do to people. It was such a beautiful, beautiful day/night.

congrats to PrOphecy, being an artist, you also get to make weddings that are actually enjoyable to attend, full with love, creative vibes and truly magical... 

Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk
more info:
http://vandocument.com/2013/08/six-fest-6th-ontario/?fb_action_ids=10201828812466741&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210201828812466741%22%3A196767040499396%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210201828812466741%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

War. Requeim: interdisciplinary performance (dance, theatre, new media projection, music...)

Shang-Han & Sammy Chien (Chimerik) got invited by Vancouver based Choreographer Rob Kitsos to work as guest artists in an interdisciplinary performance in SFU Fei & Milton Wong Theatre (Vancouver, Canada). It has been a while since Shang-Han and I get to work together intensively on a dance performance. 

We're very happy to have this chance to push boundaries and try out some new experiments, as well as getting to work with some of the top choreographers and artists in town.

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SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts: War. Requiem

April 4th to 6th, 2013 | 8 PM daily, 2 PM matinee on April 6th
Tickets: General: $15 | Students and Seniors: $10

Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

Presented by the Dance Program at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts

war.requiem is a collaborative interdisciplinary live performance exploring ideas related to the experience of war. Each artist in dance, music, media, light and costume contributed ideas that culminated into full evening work performed in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theater by dance students from SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts.

Choreography: 605 Collective, Shawna Elton, Vanessa Goodman, Rob Kitsos
Music: Gabriel Saloman
Projection & New Media Design: Chimerik 
Dramaturgy: Elysse Cheadle
Costume Design: Carmen Alatorre
Lighting Design: Sarah Nutbrown Bourdeau, Rui Su
Guest Artist: Nancy Tam

Thursday, April 4, 2013 8:00 PM
Friday, April 5, 2013 8:00 PM
Saturday, April 6, 2013 2:00PM & 8:00 PM

Tickets: General: $15 | Students and Seniors: $10. Tickets are now available online athttps://www.2mevents.com/index.php/event/war-requiem/store or will be for purchase at the Box Office one hour before showtime.

live audiovisual + movement piece in 失聲祭 Lacking Sound Fest L67 (Taipei)

I'm leading my co-founded collective Chimerik 似不像 to perform a live audiovisual + movement piece in失聲祭 Lacking Sound Fest. (the most important sound art festival in Taiwan) Saturday Jan. 26th at 噪咖 Noise Kitchen in DAC (Digital Arts Centre of Taipei). 

with Guest Dancers:

李潔欣 Lee, Chieh-Hsin
蘇品文 Su, Ping-Wen

Chimerik 似不像這禮拜六(1月26號)晚上即將在DAC的噪咖表演 音像＋肢體, 失聲祭的第67場. 
特邀舞者:
李潔欣 & 蘇品文 

more info:
http://lsf-taiwan.blogspot.tw/2013/01/lsf67.html

Sammy Chien (Chimerik) would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.
Sammy Chien (Chimerik)  remercie le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil  a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

my installation in Deep light exhibition with 桑雅劇場Sannyas Theatre

I got invited to exhibition my installation work in Deep light exhibition with 桑雅劇場Sannyas Theatre at  Mad L. I will be attending the performances as well. those who's interested in Butoh, especially in Kazuo Ohno. pretty amazing space, too..(Taipei)

我的錄像裝置在桑雅劇場的深光展覽  對舞踏或大野一雄有興趣的人一起來看表演吧 

Thank you Fanny Chou for all the support and help curating the exhibition space

Exhibition Date:  12/20 - 12/31

Deep Light
Deep Light is a series of experimental works/performances created and organized by the Sannyas Theatre that involves installation and theatre performances. It debuted at the Taipei Fringe Festival in the months of May and September in 2011 and, respectively, will be executed at the Mixed Art Design Life (Mad L) art and design studio in Taipei at the end of 2012. During its exhibition period, Deep Light aspires to incorporate different media technology and audience participation through interactive installation pieces where the space becomes a platform for new media theatrical performance. Through the use of props such as masks, documents, origami, etc..., the audience is capable of becoming the author. The result of the cross pollination of dancers, artists, audiences, and new media technology, is an interdisciplinary art piece that surpasses traditional art and theatrical production.
https://sites.google.com/site/2012deeplight/zhan-yan-nei-rong 

with all the artists/cast/crew

I acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil  a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

Dance & New Media Performance: Law of Proximity

I am working on New Media/ live visual design for this performance. invited by my favourite composer/new media artist Stefan Smulovitz.. working with dance company MACHiNENOiSY and many wonderful and interesting queer youth performers! and... also performing with the awesome local musician/co-organizer of 1067 Chris Kelly.

Queer Arts Festival and MACHiNENOiSY present: Law of Proximity

Building on their pilot project at QAF 2011, MACHiNENOiSY’s expanded 2012 Law of Proximity project engages young queer emerging dancers in a contact improvisation workshop, culminating in this 4-day performance presentation at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.

Law of Proximity uniquely engages Vancouver’s young and developing Queer, Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered community in an exciting and informative physical dialogue on performance, art, identity and communication. The project extends the points of intersection between the gay and lesbian perspective, the artistic community and the heterosexually-dominant public.

MACHiNENOiSY’s co-artistic directors Delia Brett and Daelik will be working with professional dancer Jennifer McLeish Lewis toward training the youth performers in contact dance and performance skill development over a period of one month. Youth will also work on storytelling with acclaimed author Karen X. Tulchinsky, and interactive electronic music with composer Stefan Smulovitz, ultimately working toward a performance with audio artist/collaborator Chris Kelly and new media visual artist/collaborator Sammy Chien driven by the young participants and facilitated by MACHiNENOiSY.

Performers:

Aly dela Cruz Yip

Ander Gates

Charlie Cook

Eric Buelow

Isaac Rosen-Purcell

Morgan Condon

Nina Bialecki

Rae Takaesu

Jennifer McLeish Lewis

Law of Proximity is a Community Arts Development Production. It has the support of the BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, QMUNITY, The Cultch and their Ignite program, and The Queer Arts Festival.

www.machinenoisy

Queer Arts Festival and MACHiNENOiSY present: Law of Proximity-- Trailer from Chimerik on Vimeo.

on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndTTobcJCfU&feature=youtu.be

info:

http://queerartsfestival.com/event/law-of-proximity-performance

Review on The Province:

http://blogs.theprovince.com/2012/08/15/review-law-of-proximity-ponders-queer-identity-through-dance-movement/

Article on Georgia Straight:

http://www.straight.com/article-749416/vancouver/queer-youth-find-expression-through-dance

Experiments 2012 Ontario Tour (New Media/Projection Design)

Touring with LINK DANCE as New Media/Projection Designer for remounting EXPERIMENTS (revision) in Toronto and Guelph, Ontario.

Subtle Technologies, LINK Dance Foundation and Danceworks are proud to present EXPERIMENTS: Where Logic and Emotion Collide as part of the 15th annual Subtle Technologies Festival.

Friday May 25 and Saturday May 26 @ 8pmGet tickets here! NB: A 3-day Festival pass includes one ticket to the Friday evening showing.

A collaboration between ecologists and dancers, EXPERIMENTS probes the connections between science and art to unveil the creativity, experimentation and intuition employed in both disciplines to understand the world around us. For three years, LINK Dance Artistic Director Gail Lotenberg researched this piece with a group of dancers and renowned ecologists, specializing in the study of non-verbal communication. A world of new ideas comes alive on stage.

Experiments “brings together…art and science … in a show quite unlike anything you’ve seen before.” Georgia Straight, Nov 2010

http://subtletechnologies.com/events/festival-2012/experiments/

collaboration in SFU MFA project "a doll's room"

Based on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

Directed by Pegah Tabassinejad
Dramaturgue: Nazli Akhtari

Technical Director: Terence Grigoruk
Lighting Advisor: Jonathan Kim
Stage Manager: Cherry Song

Performers: Golnaz Boroumandi
Mehdi Sadr
Natalie Schneck
David Secunda
Vic Ustare

and

Voice: Sarah Amini
Music: Remy Siu
New Media: Sammy Chien


This Performance is open to public to get in sometimes between 6pm-10pm and leave whenever you want.
It is part of the MFA Spring Show of the grad students of Interdisciplinary Art program at SFU and it's a good opportunity to watch other performances, including dance, theatre and music within this period of time.

A Doll’s Room is a four-hour durational piece that does and does not happen on the stage. It explores the gap between the virtual and the real, and investigates the absence within the two worlds.
The piece tries to practice absence: absence of actors, composers, designers and production elements such as light or sound. It uses very minimal technical support. This performance is an attempt to study the differences and similarities between theatre performances and reality shows. It explores the space between the performers as well as the space between the audience and the performance.
As the title suggests the spoken text mostly comes from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Ibsen’s play provided me literary with sentences. I treated his sentences as just sentences, and our dramaturge wrote and rewrote them considering no original logic or intention. The characters are equally important, but they accidentally remained reflective of Ibsen’s characters.

Becoming-Chimera 夢獸 : Improvised Interdisciplinary Experiments 即興跨領域實驗表演

Becoming-Chimera 夢獸
Improvised Interdisciplinary Experiments 即興跨領域實驗表演
Music, Sound, Visuals, New Media, Movement and Dance 音樂X視覺X舞蹈X聲響X科技
Man can never say: "I am a bull, a wolf.. ." But he can say: "I am to a woman what the bull is to a cow, I am to another man what the wolf is to the sheep" --Deleuze and Guattari.
It's about relation, not identification. The color red to sound is as sharp timbre to the movement of the body. Like dreams to memory, synesthesia to sensory and epiphany to temporality. Finally we are no one, but a becoming.

Becoming-Chimera is an improvised interdisciplinary-performance that involves live visuals, live electroacoustic/experimental music, soundscapes, dance/movements and new media. The performers experiment and improvise with specific dispositions and qualities either conducted or by aleatoric algorithm. It travels within the Bergsonian sense of time, and Deleuzian notion of becoming, where the creation is constantly in-flux and in process. Likes dreams, like rhizomes, they engulf deep connection between each entities and unfold new dimensions of our reality.

Why does a song, an image, a smell, a touch or a temperature can be so evocative and empowering to you? How much power, affect and contagion are embedded in these memories and sensory? And what if they can speak to each another? In the genesis of our dreams, every moment can be temporal yet perpetual. In a way, every part of memories are improvising and forming unconventional connections, like synesthesia, the boundaries are being challenged and unraveled. In our interdisciplinary collaboration, we are creating an ongoing experimental dialogue with deep intuition, creative technologies as well as phenomenology and multiplicity in order to unfold paths to the undiscovered landscapes.


夢獸：我們得以重組成不知道的什麼

這裡的界線需要跨越，定義需要破解；現象還在進行，維度不斷擴張，沒有獨一絕對，全是變動著的相對；這一分鐘或許於你暫存，下一秒可能於我永恆；當聲音與影像散落在身體，感知將連動而起，再分崩，再重組，又植入記憶，成為嵌合體，成為靈感交合的獸。你說，誰能否定自身之可塑？

Becoming-Chimera的跨界即興展演，讓人為的實驗音像，構成直覺的感官對話，可聞伯格森所稱的主觀時間，可看德勒茲所指的正在生成，旅程無盡開展，朝向未知的聲境和景觀。

你聽，你嗅，你撫觸，你韻動，而我感到無窮無限疊加於我。
我說的是夢，在夢中，我從不阻止即將發生的任何什麼。
(文: 孫志熙 Chinese text written by Andria Sun)

Created and organized by Chimerik (Sound/ Visuals/ Dance/New Media) 似不像 (聲音/影像/舞蹈/科技）

with guest collaborators:
Jain-Lung Lee (Movements) / 李建隆 (舞蹈)
Kang-Te Chang (Vocal) / 張康德 (人聲)
Min-Yen Terry Hsieh (Saxophone) / 謝明諺 (薩克斯風)
Shih-Yang Lee (Piano) / 李世揚(鋼琴)
Alma Lin & Jeff Lai (Experimental Film)/ 林淑雲 & 賴宗昀 (實驗錄像)


時間 Date
3/10 (Sat) 19:30 - 21:00

票價 Ticket
NT$ 150

地點 Location
南海藝廊 Nanhai Gallery
台北市重慶南路二段19巷3號
No.3, Lane 19, Sec. 2, Chongcing S. Rd., Jhongjheng District, Taipei City 100
http://blog.roodo.com/nanhai


Direction/ Live Electroacoustics
Sammy Chien

Live Drawing/ Live Visuals
Shang Han Chien

Generative Live Visuals/ Programing
Viktor Lin

Dance/Movements
Felicia Lau

Dance/Movements
Jain-Lung Lee 李建隆

Live Piano
Shih-Yang Lee 李世揚

Live Saxophone
Min-Yen Terry Hsieh 謝明諺

Live Vocal
Kang-Te Chang 張康德

Graphics/ 3D Modeling
Stan Chang

Computer Programing
Webb Hsu

Experimental Film
Alma Lin 林淑雲 & Jeff Lai 賴宗昀

Administration/Management
Vikter Pan

Choreographic Consultant
Erika Mitsuhashi

Costume Design
Woozy Chang 張瓊文
Chou En Yu 周恩聿

Stage Manager
Yao-Ching Tsou 鄒耀慶

with the support of Nanhai Gallery
Special Thanks to Meta Hong

Kollide: KBN X Freedom Beat X Chimerik

Live Electronics X Percussion X New Media
at Legacy Taipei 2011 12 07

We Chimerik involved as live visuals collaborator.

Official Website for Kollide

exhibiting in Taipei World Design Expo 2011

Our new collective-- Chimerik is Exhibiting and performing new media works, interactive video, sound art, live visuals and improvised performances in Taipei World Design Expo 2011 Nangang Exhibition Hall under Designhouse section A27. Oct 23-30th 2011.

Chimerik, our new team, right in here. Come find us and play.

似不像 Chimerik 再2011台北世界設計大展南港展覽館i展出新媒體, 互動影像, 聲響, 各式跨界即興表演等等. 展區 A27 浩式的空間下. 歡迎來參觀或一請玩

浩氏設計 相互交擊 intercroxx

集結各領域創作能量於浩氏設計空間內相互激盪撞擊，
以數位媒體作為引，牽動交擊流動的當下。

展出時刻：
10/22 - 11:00 opening 胡嘉 (滅劇場)
- 14:00 Sammy Chien / Jez.f (KbN)
16:30 dj james ho

10/23 - 10:30 李潔欣 (無垢劇團)
14:30 廖珮妤、華佩（采風劇團）
- 16:00 王連晟 (失聲季)
- 17:00 felicia

10/24 - 10:30 李潔欣 (無垢劇團)
14:00 王新仁 (失聲季)
15:30 Sammy Chien / Jez.f (KbN)
16:00 Nikko (列島夕照)

10/25 - 10:00 李世揚 (藝綻室內樂團)
14:00 Puta (失聲季)
15:00 Nikko (列島夕照) / jez.f (KbN)
16:00 A Tai
17:00 felicia / Chimerik

10/26 -
15:00 成文（雜唱片）
16:00 張又升 (Kandala Record)