02.11.2024
Museumnacht, Tetem, Eschede
Kexin Hao will be presenting Future Dance of Nostalgia at Tetem as part of the program of Museumnacht.
Future Dance of Nostalgia is a dancing game which invites audience to perform the choreography that extracts and abstracts the movements found in the pre-industrial, heavy physical labour, and work songs. Motion tracking technology allows the body movements to be quantified, measured, and evaluated. Historical archives of work songs provide the inspiration for the music that renders the old tales and melodies into clubbing beats that lead the dance.
Kexin Hao (CN, 1993) is a performance artist and graphic designer born in Beijing and based in The Netherlands. What lies at the core of her art making is the creation of experiences addressing history, society and heritage through bodily engagement. The body in her practice is the research subject, the medium, and site where things happen and evolve.
iii has commissioned a new work for Kexin Hao’s residency, ‘Future Dance of Nostalgia’, which explores ancient human activities of production in the form of an interactive dance game and as an investigation into the human body as an archive.