The Circuit -
A Movement Scenario

collaborated with Vietnam-born & London-based artist Moi Tran

Born in Vietnam with Chinese Heritage, Moi Tran is an award winning

Artist, Researcher and Designer exploring intersections between

Contemporary Art and Performance. A refugee of the Vietnam War,

her work explores displacement, addressing historical undertones of

war, colonisation, immigration, and stereotyping tensions. She works in

Live Art, Text, Object-making, Installation, and Video to explore geopolitical

ideas as sites of knowledge production and ideas of protest in

the Diaspora community that address the value of personal capital and

the role of transmitted memory. The Circuit - A Movement Scenario is

an improvised, durational movement piece based on the act of walking

as performance and thinking, presented by female performers of East-

Asian heritage with a live sound score. The Circuit uses dual coloured

floor tape to demarcate a track varying in size and dependent on

location. While the walking movement precipitates the events in The

Circuit, the duration of the piece moves from emotive to the cerebral.

The women venture forth onto the track contemplating issues of

Diaspora, gender, intimacy, visibility, and unity. The Circuit explores a

process of "soft activism" using mere presence to confront, question,

and reclaim cultural and social misrepresentation. The arc of

movement develops over time and glitches surface amidst the routines,

gaining momentum, fragmenting the movement and imbuing the

atmosphere with charged energies that wax and wane. Open and

intimate, The Circuit manifests a viewing experience of physical and

psychological intensity.

Performer: Jodie Judy Lu YingChu, Makiko Aoyama, Jane Chan, Iris Chan, Sung Im Her, Hazel Lam

Sound & Costume: Moi Tran

Production Manager: Ria Samartzi

Collaborators Pool: Nadine Cordial Settele, Mei Mac, Kumiko Mendl, Jenny Logico Cruz, Yen Ching Lin, Hae Yeon Lim, Yung Yee Chen, Nhu Xuan Hua, Deborah Lim