Dance for a 2-Meter Square
with Bo-jia Huang
The spaces we inhabit are always in flux, shifting between what we consider ‘ours’ and what exists beyond the threshold. The corridor that connects the rooms in our house is not just a transition from one space to another; it is a zone of potential, an in-between space that both separates and connects.
Corridors are liminal spaces-often seen as mere passageways, yet they hold the potential to be redefined. This work examines how imagination interacts with restriction. A 2-meter square may seem limiting, but boundaries can inspire creativity. Through guided movement and structured instructions, we invite the audience to engage with space in new ways, in KABUFF, a 2-Meter Square space at Initiative Raumshciff.
Protester’s Sculpture
This video is based on exploring the concept of a standing human body’s tolerance threshold. The focus is on a body with an open mouth and a microphone positioned within the mouth’s limits. It examines the protestor's body, standing on telecommunication posts as if on a stage. The sculpture engages with time by playing the video on repeat, presenting a man-system perpetually at the boundary of speech, scream, and protest. The threshold for my performer’s open mouth is set at three minutes. This video was exhibited at Videoformes 2022, as part of the SAFPEM collection of Iranian New Media artworks, alongside works by other renowned Iranian artists. It was also shown at Galeria Weber & Weber in Turin, Italy, and Art Active Gallery in Passau, Germany.
A Poem in the Urban Landscape
Romantic landscapes serve as the backdrop for an individual's confrontation with nature. The gap between pre-20th-century landscapes and urban life transforms the concept of landscape into a shifting object on an individual map. A new landscape within a city can be healing—floating between different expressions and emotions that emerge in our minds.
A Poem in the Urban Landscape seeks to introduce a new landscape within the passing audience and objects by pushing liminal spaces into dialogue with the city, time, and space, intertwining text and body in an interactive process.
A poem within the city’s landscape offers a subjective means of grasping abstract ideas. It carries a hidden dynamism, much like the relationship between an individual and the city itself. It is a fusion of text—those powerful, eye-catching elements scattered throughout urban space, such as “Follow a line!” It exists at the boundary of the skin.
As time passes, the city drifts between specter and matter, oscillating between memory and sensibility, harshness and softness. This multiplicity of sensations forms a matrix—a space where we might claim ownership of the atmosphere or environment within it. But where is the city truly anchored? Is it rooted within the boundaries of a body?
