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.

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/

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)

WEEKENDSOUND @ IAC Berlin!

WEEKENSOUND
週末聲音

SEP 17, 2011
OPENING: 8:30PM
VENUE :
IAC BERLIN
BRUNNENSTR.29, 10999 BERLIN

WEEKENDSOUND is a sound project and an artist is invited to do a live concert.

On this evening IDOLON STUDIO is pleased to present Shang-Han Chien簡上涵(CA) + Sammy Chien簡上翔(CA) + Hun-Chun Lin林惠君(DE) + Mirae Rosner(CA) + Jesse Scott(CA) + Maria Pyatkova(RU).

Shang-Han Chien(簡上涵) & Sammy Chien(簡上翔) are inter-disciplinary artists who seek to merge cinema, visual art, sound art, graphic design, animation, new media and dance performance techniques into a new individual practice. They frequently collaborate both visually and aurally in multi-disciplinary projects range from film, dance performance, improvised audiovisual performance, live electronics, concert, theatre, video installation, art exhibition and interdisciplinary collaborative-performance. They began their interdisciplinary collaboration and new media journey with Dr. Henry Daniel (Vancouver) & Troika Ranch (NYC/Berlin) in 2008. Since then, they continue their deep interest in interdisciplinary collaborations and forge deep connections within images, sound and movements. Both of their work has appeared in various films, music, media and dance festivals. Sammy holds his B.F.A in Film Honors at School for the Contemporary Arts in Simon Fraser Unveristy. Shang-Han holds his B.D in Graphic Design at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University (NSCADU), Canada.

Musician, Hui-Chun Lin(林惠君), Classical piano and cello education, Studied with Professor Peter Bruns at Dresden Conservatory, Postgraduate studies in improvisation with Tilo Augsten at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, Worked as solo cellist and ensemble musician, Improvisation, theatre music, contemporary music, dance, performance, classical music, world music and cello solo with live electronics, Participated in a workshop with "Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road, Ensemble" at Carnegie Hall in New York 09/2006, also participated the workshop "Dave Douglas: Composition and Improvisation in New York 02/2010", Leipziger Jazztage 2007 (jazz festival) with "Beat Freisens Spelunkenorchester" Lectureship for improvisation at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig 2006-2008, Conducted an improvisation class at a middle school in Tainan/Taiwan 2008/09, World music series "Passagen" of the Bayerischer Rundfunk with Mahoott 01/2010 ans also Free Improvisation Concert at Leipjazzig Festival 03/2010, Contemporary Music, Concert at Resonanzen Festival Leipzig 04/2010 and "Codes" Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music in Lublin (Poland) 05/2010, "Artist in Residence" in Cit des Arts Paris 07/2010-01/2011.

Jesse Scott is a new media artist, producer, coder, designer, visualist, curator, writer, and blogger. Under various aliases and operating within several artist collectives, he produces work for live performance, for site-specific actions, for listening, for viewing, for reading… his work has spanned the domains of a/v performance, locative media, telematics, improvisational practice, urban projection, installation design, public workshops, and the written word.

Mirae Rosner's her dance training in Novosibirsk. She moved from Russia to work at the Max Plank Institute in Göttingen in the field of Molecular and Genetic Biology. Here, in the absence of any training possibilities she taught classes in ballet and modern. She moved to Berlin a year and a half ago to pursue artistic projects, and complements performing and creating films with research in the field of Social Psychology.

Maria Pyatkova undertook her dance training in Novosibirsk. She moved from Russia to work at the Max Plank Institute in Göttingen in the field of Molecular and Genetic Biology. Here, in the absence of any training possibilities she taught classes in ballet and modern. She moved to Berlin a year and a half ago to pursue artistic projects, and complements performing and creating films with research in the field of Social Psychology.

This event is part of the exhibition "LIQUIDSHELL"(09.09
-01.10.2011) at IAC-Berlin Gallery : "Sound Disc" by Wang Fujui (TW), "Foreground" by Shingo Inao (JP), "Vibration Lake" by Kuo-Wei Lin/ SUMO STUDIO (DE), "relativity" by Chang Yung-Ta (TW), "Window, projector and magnifying blinds" by Kim Westerström (SE) and "permeable super real" by Elke Marhöfer (DE) /sound by Olaf Hochherz (DE).

http://www.idolonstudio.com/main/event.php

http://www.myspace.com/linhuichun/

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special thanks to dear Wang, chun-chi, our curator.