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Breath
Thanchanog Ho Mai Chin & a group from NAFA 

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Photgraphs courtesy of Wang Xuedanyang

Performed by a group from Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, Breath reveals human imagination and creativity through the dancing body, the folding and unfolding of a non conventional garment and thoughts on sustainable clothing production projected as handwritten fragments. The dancers explore space, and the vital materialism of human body and textiles through improvisation and meditative movement from Asian Dance techniques. The design of the garment is based on a concept Margret Wibmer has developed over a number of years under the conceptual umbrella of ‘Infinite Play’. For Breath, Mai Chin took the text projection further by adding certain dynamics to it. Linking back to her artistic practice, she played around with reflection and refraction on a rotatory mechanism all of which was manually controlled by her in real-time as a performative element.