When Two Flowers Meet
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| free admission |
| from 3 years |
| No language skills required |
| Foyer, Ground Floor |
| Belongs to: Given or Chosen? |
Drawing on traditional Southeast Asian dance forms and personal stories, a choreographic investigation into relationships, closeness and intimacy is taking shape in the foyer of the Humboldt Forum.
Together with four dancers and a singer, Raymond Liew Jin Pin explores how people connect with one another and how intimacy emerges as a space between bodies, voices and memories. Using coloured ribbons, they forge fleeting connections within the space. They make closeness and distance visible and continually allow new relationships to emerge.
Co-choreography, dance: Paula Pau, Lee Mun Wai, Jascha Viehstädt
Music: Andras_2020
Participants
Raymond Liew Jin Pin is a Malaysian choreographer, dancer, and performance artist based in Germany. His work engages questions of gender and sexual diversity, intimacy, and community through contemporary choreography and performance, connecting Southeast Asian cultural memory with diasporic experience.
He began his dance training in Malaysia, including traditional dance practices, and studied at the National Academy of Arts, Culture and Heritage (ASWARA) in Kuala Lumpur before continuing at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.
His works have been presented at Asian Performing Arts Lab, Fringify Festival in Hamburg, S_P_I_T Queer Performance Festival Vienna, Explore Dance Festival for Young Audience, tanzNRW25, SOLO-Festival für Künstlerische Alleingänge in Bremen and Drama Queer Festival in Bratislava.
Hải Nam Nguyễn is a Vietnamese independent curator and researcher working between Germany and Vietnam. His practice engages with Southeast Asian art, the history of former East Germany and its contract workers, and the solidarity movements among the socialist “brother countries” of the former GDR. In 2019, he was awarded the Curator Scholarship by the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen. Nguyễn has curated exhibitions and contributed to research projects at institutions including the Museum for Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK), Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Schwules Museum Berlin, RMIT University Vietnam, and the University of Erfurt. He is currently guest curator at the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in Humboldt Forum.
Pham, Minh Duc is a Berlin-based artist whose practice emerges from artistic research on labour migration, memory and body politics. Through sculpture, installation and performance, he examines how social norms and regimes of care and control materialise in objects, textiles, and everyday gestures. Floral motifs, industrial references and fragile display structures recur as carriers of ambivalence between tenderness and resistance, preservation and erasure in which shared histories can be re-read and renegotiated. His work has been shown at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, the Museum Utopie und Alltag Eisenhüttenstadt and the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig.