NON-BODY

Solo Exhibition and Live Performance Opening: Saturday, July 5, 2025, from 4:00 to 8:00 PM Live Performances: 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM Artist Talk: Following the 7:00 PM performance Venue: St. Elisabeth-Kirche, Invalidenstraße 3, 10115 Berlin NON-BODY by Ya-Wen Fu Live performance with digitally controlled mechanical installation and sound work Ya-Wen Fu has developed her new art project combining digital-mechanical installation, dance and sound in collaboration with the choreographer and dancer Shu-Yi Chou and the sound artist Daniel Romero Calderón. NON-BODY will subsequently also be shown at St. Elisabeth's Church in Berlin. The dancer Shu-Yi Chou is connected via body extensions and tension cables to a digitally controlled acoustic-mechanical apparatus. This apparatus exerts physical force on his body and translates his movements into sound. At the same time, it actively anticipates and responds to his motions. Chou must contend with counterforces and alter his habitual movement patterns. He can either adapt or resist—but he is ultimately confronted with a future that is predetermined by the apparatus through digital and mechanical means. The body extensions form the interface between his movement, the machine, and the sound design. Through the interplay of physical movement, sound, and installation, the audience is immersed in a complex choreography of beauty, constraint, and resistance. Ya-Wen Fu’s work addresses the impact of societal and political forces on the individual—highlighting human fragility and powerlessness. In NON-BODY, she not only exposes the visible tensions within society but also probes the hidden strategies and subtle mechanisms of control that underlie the complexity of contemporary conflicts. Foto: NRUP.DE About Ya-Wen Fu Ya-Wen Fu, a Berlin-based artist, explores the relationship between body and space in her work. Rather than simply depicting a subject and its environment, she takes a nuanced and critical approach to examining how the sensing self exists, perceives, and acts within spatial, social, and psychological contexts. Her works have been exhibited internationally at renowned institutions, including the 21st Media Art Biennale WRO 2025 Qualia, Institut français Berlin – Les Vitrines 2024, and the solo exhibition so absurd at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in 2023. Other highlights include Schlossmediale Werdenberg (Echo, 2022, Switzerland), Städtisches Kunstmuseum Taipei (2021), smac – Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz (POCHEN Biennale 2020), CYNETART Festival at HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts (2020), Tainan Art Museum II and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan (2019), ZKM | Center for Art and Media (2018), Kunsthalle Exnergasse (KEX) WUK/Vienna (2017), and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial Gijón (2014). In 2021, Fu was awarded the Project Scholarship by the Hans and Charlotte Krull Foundation. In 2018, she received the Art Prize “A-i-R CYNETART.” Her curatorial projects include Elsewhere is Nowhere (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 2017), and f(r)iction in between (Werkschauhalle – Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, 2018). Since 2007, she has also served as director of tamtamART Taiwan/Berlin.