Date (select one)
August 17 (Sunday), 6:30–8:00 pm
August 24 (Sunday), 6:30–8:00 pm
Capacity
45 People per session
Price
$20
Fou Gallery is delighted to host “Floating Landscape: Immersive Dance Performance” – a sensory and spatial journey curated by interdisciplinary movement artist Ching-I Chang. Echoing the fashion designer Bonan Li’s series Floating Landscape—a sculptural fashion collection that explores garments as fluid spatial forms, echoing the rhythms and transformations of nature—this immersive performance bridges fashion, movement, and sound, creating a dynamic interplay between garment architecture, bodily perception, and the current solo exhibition at Fou Gallery featuring artist Zhuo Xiong.
Dance artists, Ching‑I Chang and Marie Lloyd Paspe, inhabiting Bonan Li’s sculptural garments, will embody shifting states of natural elements such as, wood, metal, lava, and sulphur; resonating with the dialogue between natural and constructed landscapes. With Maria Takeuchi’s live soundscape, the performance unfolds as a living landscape of tension and transformation, blurring the boundaries between body, garment, and environment, and inviting audiences into a shared sensory experience.
The performance extends Zhuo’s exploration of fragmented histories and spatial layering from visual art into movement and sound. Fou Gallery is proud to support this cross-disciplinary dialogue, reinforcing its commitment to nurturing experimental practices and amplifying the voices of Asian artists across fashion, performance, and visual art.
Learn more about the exhibition:
Dance Artists
Ching-I Chang (she/her) is a migrating breeze. She has rested in Taiwan, the U.S.A., India and Africa. Wherever beauty and kind people call, she is there. She is a dance/dream concept maker, curator, performer and listener. She holds an MFA from the University of Utah and has a deep love for the arts and nurturing harmony. Ching-I & Penelope curate the Inter-grant Festival: an annual platform at Arts On Site celebrating the voices of international artists who have successfully navigated the US immigration process. She received the 2025 Individual Artist Finalist award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; the recipient of the Create Change Fellowship from the Laundromat Project; and TOPAZ ARTS 2024-25 AAPI Artist in Residency. Ching-I loves bananas.
Marie Lloyd Paspe (she/her) is a Filipina-American choreographer, dance artist, vocalist, and educator whose practice re-roots the brown Asian body in the liberatory philosophy of kapwa. Her works merge ancestral memory with futurity, exploring diasporic, queer, and ecologically entangled identities. She is a former performer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (2018–2024) and received a Bessie Award for choreographic contributions to Deep Blue Sea (2021). Her work has been presented at Harlem Stage, MASS MoCA, Lincoln Center, and SAVVY Contemporary. Paspe is a 2024 Harlem Stage WaterWorks Fellow and coalesces dance with vocal and interdisciplinary collaborations across international platforms.
Musician
Maria Takeuchi (ÉMU) is a Brooklyn-based Japanese audiovisual artist and composer whose work merges organismic soundscapes with generative art, crafting sonic-visual poems inspired by nature. Using handmade instruments—piezo-amplified bark, porcelain bowls tuned with water, shells, and stones—she creates delicate, tactile sound textures processed through modular synthesis. Her work has been presented at Mabou Mines SUITE/Space, societe des arts technologique (SAT) and Ars Electronica x NKB, exploring the resonance between nature and technology. Her experimental film as·phyx·i·a (2015) was shortlisted by Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors, shown at Cannes Lions and MoMA, and featured on nearly 200 international platforms.
Fashion Designer
Bonan Li (she/her) is a fashion designer whose work transcends conventional fashion, exploring the ambiguous poetics of the world and the intricate connections between human consciousness, the body, and the vast energies of nature. Through clothing—treated as a spatial structure deeply intertwined with human experience and cultural expression—she evokes themes of transience, emptiness, and the delicate patterns of life. Her practice reimagines fashion as a contemplative space, engaging perception, challenging boundaries, and seeking harmony between human existence and the natural world. Since 2021, her works have been exhibited internationally, including the Transmission Project at the Cristobal Balenciaga Museum (Spain), We Are at Culture Lab LIC (NY), and Cave of the Day, Cave of the Night at Brooklyn Art Cave (2024).
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