Chamber of Public Secrets

Stateless Mind: Bodies of Knowledge

18-22 October. Archivi della Misericordia. Cannaregio 3549. Venice, Italy.
Live performances and video screenings.

Stateless Mind: Bodies of Knowledge is a performance and video program bringing together artists based in the Nordic countries, the Netherlands, and the UK who come from and think with places beyond. Their works engages with embodied, cultural, and vernacular knowledge that have been carried over generations of diasporic movements transversing Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Melanesia.

Stateless Mind: Bodies of Knowledge
diasporic embodied and vernacular knowledge

Organised by Jambatan in Copenhagen, Stateless Mind: Bodies of Knowledge is conceived as a satellite event in response to the Pera+Flora+Fauna exhibition, which is an official collateral event of the 59th La Biennale di Venezia. The programme featuring 14 artists will take place over 5 days from 18 October to 22 October 2022 within the exhibition of Pera + Flora + Fauna at the Archivi della Misericordia and its surroundings.

The program is curated by Jo-Lene Ong (Netherlands/Malaysia), Amir Zainorin (Denmark Malaysia), and Annie Jael Kwan (United Kingdom/Singapore).


Program

18 OCTOBER 2022
video

18:00

Stefan Osterjo and Thuy Nguyeno

performance

18:30

Stefan Osterjo and Thuy Nguyeno
Yellow music in diaspora


19 OCTOBER 2022
performance

15:00

Pavana Reid
Anonymous

16:00

Shaq Koyok
Surat Untuk Hutan (Letter to the Forest)

video

16:45

Thuy Nguyen
Echoic Memory (19 mins)


20 OCTOBER 2022
performance

15:30

Kiss Lavin
Echo

16:00

Yong Sun Gullach
Searching with a homeless body

17:00

Honey Kraiwee
Why are you here?

17:30

Kent Chan
Five Stories on Heat


21 OCTOBER 2022
performance

13:00 – 14:00

Noel Ed De Leon
Uncertain Respite
(at Strada Nova to Archivi della Misericordia)

15:10 – 15:40

Bettina Fung
Land as Anchor

16:00 – 16:15

Jessie Jing
Body Clippings

video

17:00 -18:00

Yin Yin Wong
Lotus Flower

17:00 -18:00

Finn Maätita
My Name Is The One Who 


22 OCTOBER 2022

15:00 -15:15

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
Gynophobia

15:30 -15:50

Ribka Maria Pattinama Coleman
We travelled the distance


ARTISTS LIST

Bettina Fung (United Kingdom/Hong Kong)
Finn Maätita (Netherlands/Melanesia)
Honey Kraiwee (Netherlands/Thailand)
Jessie Jing (United Kingdom/Malaysia)
Kent Chan (Netherlands/Singapore)
Kiss Lavin (Denmark/Indonesia)
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (Denmark/Phillippines)
Noel Ed De Leon (United Kingdon/Phillipines)
Pavana Reid (Norway/Thailand)
Ribka Maria Pattinama Coleman (Denmark/Indonesia)
Shaq Koyok (Malaysia)
Stefan Osterjo and Thuy Nguyen (Sweden/Vietnam)
Yin Yin Wong (Netherlands)
Yong Sun Gullach (Denmark/Korea)