https://rrrrraffiali.com raffiali Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:52:34 +0000 https://rrrrraffiali.com en https://rrrrraffiali.com/The-Pigeon-behind-A-Pigeon-2 Sat, 21 May 2022 08:32:15 +0000 raffiali https://rrrrraffiali.com/The-Pigeon-behind-A-Pigeon-2 <img width="1366" height="768" width_o="1366" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43d0987d6017ed6c54923bd61c65324a63e67857447a35a1792c08304a9dac5c/gezi3.png" data-mid="143236350" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43d0987d6017ed6c54923bd61c65324a63e67857447a35a1792c08304a9dac5c/gezi3.png" /> <img width="1366" height="768" width_o="1366" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae2a4b30323240ce7c30364338019aea88f517a58e9bfd0e42b45a15b1fe1532/gezi2.png" data-mid="143236352" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae2a4b30323240ce7c30364338019aea88f517a58e9bfd0e42b45a15b1fe1532/gezi2.png" /> The Pigeon behind A Pigeon 2 video, 2 min 59 secs, 2022, in 悬 亭 video and sign language poetry serieswith Yanfei Li, and Baizong , in Zhongshan, Huizhou, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands https://rrrrraffiali.com/At-the-sinking-bed Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:37:24 +0000 raffiali https://rrrrraffiali.com/At-the-sinking-bed <img width="3378" height="2500" width_o="3378" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26b96aa4c81e59ef2c9e0316c0da48cb26a0440f82e621cd6a4d055532f2fe6a/_MG_8592.jpg" data-mid="159244775" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26b96aa4c81e59ef2c9e0316c0da48cb26a0440f82e621cd6a4d055532f2fe6a/_MG_8592.jpg" /><img width="3750" height="2500" width_o="3750" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55ddc8a435fac225533ebfba3b84d12957dd6cc686bc91dc4a5c4ee69ad68e92/_MG_8585.jpg" data-mid="159244779" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55ddc8a435fac225533ebfba3b84d12957dd6cc686bc91dc4a5c4ee69ad68e92/_MG_8585.jpg" /><img width="3750" height="2500" width_o="3750" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31540abb741473543be0956f785d2942bc9461dbbaee5e869d7b5b324cb9066e/_MG_8588.jpg" data-mid="159244777" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31540abb741473543be0956f785d2942bc9461dbbaee5e869d7b5b324cb9066e/_MG_8588.jpg" />At the ending bed we learn to breath through each other poem installation, 2022&nbsp; at&nbsp; Imaginary Z Gallery, Hangzhou, China Curator and photo/j.t&nbsp;Imaginary Z <img width="2436" height="1704" width_o="2436" height_o="1704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c7f578217a7e6d079f19cea7a001b899b38a93fb04adea92291c27c7e938ce6/Screenshot-2023-01-30-at-23.52.06.png" data-mid="166694937" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c7f578217a7e6d079f19cea7a001b899b38a93fb04adea92291c27c7e938ce6/Screenshot-2023-01-30-at-23.52.06.png" /> <img width="2432" height="1705" width_o="2432" height_o="1705" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f98f2a0993d922e0ec5975f14d18bded66f5e2e7aa31a17cb375922c97d3170/Screenshot-2023-01-30-at-23.52.47.png" data-mid="166694936" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f98f2a0993d922e0ec5975f14d18bded66f5e2e7aa31a17cb375922c97d3170/Screenshot-2023-01-30-at-23.52.47.png" /> <img width="1280" height="719" width_o="1280" height_o="719" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5fb40d73316c050d3a9a8c9f7796cdc2843eac59b8f48e66281092c1ec1fd18/IMG_6296.JPG" data-mid="166695127" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5fb40d73316c050d3a9a8c9f7796cdc2843eac59b8f48e66281092c1ec1fd18/IMG_6296.JPG" /> <img width="1280" height="717" width_o="1280" height_o="717" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4460cb5e5448525acbcd203259e738876a73c2b31a0fbb076f341a52acdf6690/IMG_E227330A2151-1.jpeg" data-mid="166689019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4460cb5e5448525acbcd203259e738876a73c2b31a0fbb076f341a52acdf6690/IMG_E227330A2151-1.jpeg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c66045429f7d52a994c9b4e98be63437d5bebef7fe3c98eb8e1651090801585f/DESCENDING-NOTES-DAVINCI-GRADE-MASTER-11-OCT.00_10_25_16.Still025.jpg" data-mid="166695128" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c66045429f7d52a994c9b4e98be63437d5bebef7fe3c98eb8e1651090801585f/DESCENDING-NOTES-DAVINCI-GRADE-MASTER-11-OCT.00_10_25_16.Still025.jpg" /> Raffia’s poem is partly performed by themselves in&nbsp; Descending notesfilm by Lou Lou Sainsburywritten and performed by Lou Lou Sainsbury, Raffia Li, Ada M. Patterson Exhibited at Gasworks, Humber Street Gallery, Roodkapje and IFFR 2023. https://rrrrraffiali.com/Sometimes-a-feather Sat, 21 May 2022 15:00:55 +0000 raffiali https://rrrrraffiali.com/Sometimes-a-feather <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f888cf01eff80ed8785d0e27c61ea5c7151638078c8c54679519259cf64f6bc7/Screen-Shot-2022-05-21-at-11.48.27-AM.png" data-mid="143253118" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f888cf01eff80ed8785d0e27c61ea5c7151638078c8c54679519259cf64f6bc7/Screen-Shot-2022-05-21-at-11.48.27-AM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14b8f6703728589fbe60ab98138b7ef84d487a6ce2bc9ca843c85e3e52285c28/Screen-Shot-2022-05-21-at-5.10.45-PM.png" data-mid="143253138" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14b8f6703728589fbe60ab98138b7ef84d487a6ce2bc9ca843c85e3e52285c28/Screen-Shot-2022-05-21-at-5.10.45-PM.png" /> Sometimes a feather&nbsp;video, 6 min 19 secs, 2022, in 悬 亭 video and sign language poetry series with Yanfei Li, in Zhongshan, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands https://rrrrraffiali.com/Hovering Sat, 21 May 2022 14:24:24 +0000 raffiali https://rrrrraffiali.com/Hovering 悬亭 Hovering video and sign language poetry series, 2021-2022 <img width="2880" height="1618" width_o="2880" height_o="1618" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e2293db79a73a77b7690fd1392c664a5dce312ba5b1c2b756c59988412e954c/Screen-Shot-2022-05-21-at-5.17.28-PM.png" data-mid="143264362" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e2293db79a73a77b7690fd1392c664a5dce312ba5b1c2b756c59988412e954c/Screen-Shot-2022-05-21-at-5.17.28-PM.png" /> Nature is never outside us. All corners of the urban space have long been inseparable from our bodies. Refusing the human/nature division means that we need to be in constant conversation with the more-than-human world, and keep inviting other movements into us: becoming otherwise, and in this case, becoming birds. In 悬亭 series,&nbsp; I invite my friends and collaborators Yanfei and Baizong to translate some of my bird video works into sign language, and it soon become a dance with the birds, and our collective choreography through which we expand and shape each other. By watching/filming the steps, pauses, dives, gazes of birds, and transforming them into our own body through signing, could we inhabitie the birds? When our body is the study room to listen to nature, would we find other ways of communicating, encountering and being, would we start to&nbsp;remember the rituals of dreaming and transforming化物? &nbsp; <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/321bf0d788ef6bb8b409db8f4a196ff671cc320a73f2033e9464dfb335d3aa5d/Screen-Shot-2022-05-21-at-9.16.56-PM.png" data-mid="143264042" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/321bf0d788ef6bb8b409db8f4a196ff671cc320a73f2033e9464dfb335d3aa5d/Screen-Shot-2022-05-21-at-9.16.56-PM.png" /> Yanfei video, work in progress, 2022,&nbsp;with Yanfei Li,&nbsp; in Zhongshan, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands <img width="1366" height="768" width_o="1366" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43d0987d6017ed6c54923bd61c65324a63e67857447a35a1792c08304a9dac5c/gezi3.png" data-mid="143250900" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43d0987d6017ed6c54923bd61c65324a63e67857447a35a1792c08304a9dac5c/gezi3.png" /> <img width="1366" height="768" width_o="1366" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae2a4b30323240ce7c30364338019aea88f517a58e9bfd0e42b45a15b1fe1532/gezi2.png" data-mid="143250901" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae2a4b30323240ce7c30364338019aea88f517a58e9bfd0e42b45a15b1fe1532/gezi2.png" /> The Pigeon behind A Pigeon 2 video, 2 min 59 secs, 2022, with Yanfei Li, and Baizong , in Zhongshan, Huizhou, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f888cf01eff80ed8785d0e27c61ea5c7151638078c8c54679519259cf64f6bc7/Screen-Shot-2022-05-21-at-11.48.27-AM.png" data-mid="143254984" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f888cf01eff80ed8785d0e27c61ea5c7151638078c8c54679519259cf64f6bc7/Screen-Shot-2022-05-21-at-11.48.27-AM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14b8f6703728589fbe60ab98138b7ef84d487a6ce2bc9ca843c85e3e52285c28/Screen-Shot-2022-05-21-at-5.10.45-PM.png" data-mid="159248020" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14b8f6703728589fbe60ab98138b7ef84d487a6ce2bc9ca843c85e3e52285c28/Screen-Shot-2022-05-21-at-5.10.45-PM.png" /> Sometimes a feather 有时 是 羽毛video, 6 min 19 secs, 2022,&nbsp;with Yanfei Li, in Zhongshan, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands <img width="2880" height="1615" width_o="2880" height_o="1615" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/072ab81c4e691bf21dda27b100f5410813247f074b1cd65eca2864c0f547847f/Screen-Shot-2022-03-15-at-1.54.09-PM.png" data-mid="143264118" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/072ab81c4e691bf21dda27b100f5410813247f074b1cd65eca2864c0f547847f/Screen-Shot-2022-03-15-at-1.54.09-PM.png" /> 鸽子 背面的 鸽子 1video, 2 min 59 secs, 2021,&nbsp;with a pigeon on the street <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c568cebf0317c73e612e7f3995467d21a5213c766e2e1663b49631ca1e1070d0/Screen-Shot-2021-05-06-at-12.23.43-PM.png" data-mid="143395254" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c568cebf0317c73e612e7f3995467d21a5213c766e2e1663b49631ca1e1070d0/Screen-Shot-2021-05-06-at-12.23.43-PM.png" />路&nbsp; Road&nbsp; &nbsp; 鸟 Heron&nbsp; video, 41 secs, 2021, with a heron in a park https://rrrrraffiali.com/Shaping-words-Melting-words Sun, 22 May 2022 05:11:43 +0000 raffiali https://rrrrraffiali.com/Shaping-words-Melting-words <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4097c93693539671597bbc6e129742839ef349301d75b182b55f8f4e894784ad/IMG_0104.jpeg" data-mid="143283533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4097c93693539671597bbc6e129742839ef349301d75b182b55f8f4e894784ad/IMG_0104.jpeg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/343b7f869ee81c40cfb84e68c69d58736d10362aecbc260a49a8ba23736160d1/IMG_0110.jpeg" data-mid="143283529" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/343b7f869ee81c40cfb84e68c69d58736d10362aecbc260a49a8ba23736160d1/IMG_0110.jpeg" /> Shaping words, Melting words Body and language workshop, March 2022with Jascha Blume, at Kunstinstituut Melly “Doesn't anyone know that the body starts and ends elsewhere?” Borrowing poet and Protactile educator John Lee Clark’s question, this workshop invites you to explore this interdependent “elsewhere” by holding space to the shapes and textures of words and languages, to move our body beyond the spoken or written, into the realm of the signed, touched, and otherwise sensed languages. The workshop is lead mainly through gesturing, signing, and involves exploration of touching and sensing the borders between one’s own body and its surroundings, touching water, shaping and passing words/objects that people bring in and letting them melt and transform into other shapes, textures.&nbsp; I invited Jascha to work on an American sign langauge and english poem together, and it became our ritual to bring in the participants into the signing space by passing the movements/signed words throughout our poem performance.&nbsp; The signed poetry is very different from its written form, but here’s an english transcript if you wanna take a look.<img width="2880" height="1623" width_o="2880" height_o="1623" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73aa160cf9717867dfa14b39e6fa446d9bf4daa5572386c50844c49679104d47/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-7.24.53-AM.png" data-mid="143283553" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73aa160cf9717867dfa14b39e6fa446d9bf4daa5572386c50844c49679104d47/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-7.24.53-AM.png" /> Curator and photo/Aqueene Wilson, Kunstinstituut MellyDutch sign language interpreters/Mira Geirnaert and Cornelie van Dijk https://rrrrraffiali.com/for-things-not-here-not-now Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:52:34 +0000 raffiali https://rrrrraffiali.com/for-things-not-here-not-now <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d2469fb4b0d43f8fb52bc26dbec16a58335b0de5904e33bfd5c62e8b19e3a08/1-tale-of-tub-performance---photo-credit-Florian-Cramer.jpg" data-mid="213052369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d2469fb4b0d43f8fb52bc26dbec16a58335b0de5904e33bfd5c62e8b19e3a08/1-tale-of-tub-performance---photo-credit-Florian-Cramer.jpg" /> image description: Raffia sits with two Dutch Sign Language (NGT) interpreters, introducing a Chinese Sign Language(CSL) poem by Yanfei Li, which is presented in a big screen tiled backwards on the ground. Interpreter Zhangdan sits next to the screen, translates Raffia’s description from English to NGT, while interpreter Lela sits across Zhangdan to show her what exact movement Raffia is doing. Raffia wears a hat, with left hand gesturing the sign of mountain in CSL, and right hand up the mountain, about to fall upon the mountian like water, forming the sign of waterfall.&nbsp; for things not here not now Raffia Li performance, 60min&nbsp;&nbsp; with Yunfan Tian, Yanfei Li, and Ekrem Koç The Ground Up And The Washed Down, A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam , 2023&nbsp; A touchable performance is a space providing time &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; a timespace that is trusting/trusted &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;a moving ritual &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; an invocation &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;a critic Desiring Waiting Calling together for things not here not now bring them to here and now within a breathing in a breathing out a practice of a repetitive daily encounter/transformation a body ready to expand beyond a self a reset of subject/object melting snow &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; now imaging with the eyes ears noses mouths fingertips, together, altogether anti-romanticisation always interrupted a unique sensing point almost falling in love the beginning between the beginnings a long preparation and a restart depending on others and always should unstoppable questioning a power structure analysis fumbling together an on-going rehearsal about the need to touch or to be touched with Ekrem with Yanfei with Yunfan <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a2e9786b977ccb062cb8316521018f3b5e5f5addcf292ecaaf2472fe5f51590/2-tale-of-tub-performance---photo-credit-Florian-Cramer.jpeg" data-mid="213051541" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a2e9786b977ccb062cb8316521018f3b5e5f5addcf292ecaaf2472fe5f51590/2-tale-of-tub-performance---photo-credit-Florian-Cramer.jpeg" />image description: Raffia wears a ladder, and sits on the ladder from its inside, using the legs of the ladder as support to stand. An audience is reading Raffia’s text from their laptop, which is shown on the big screen tiled on the ground. Two Dutch Sign Language interpreters wears black T shirts, works together to interprete Raffia’s movement with the text.&nbsp; On screen, the letters are big and black, on white background: When we walk together, sometimes I become part of Suzie in relation to the surroundings, moving with our body as a whole, and sometimes I become part of the surroundings in relation to Suzie, bridging a cat, or a flower . This is the language I wish to be fluent in.&nbsp; Thes words “or a flower” and “fluent in” are hidden behind by Interpreter Zhangdan who now sits in the center of the room). Curator: Yin Yin Wong Languages: spoken and written English, Mandarin and Dutch Sign Language (NGT)Audio description : Yunfan Tian, Raffia Li and on site audienceSign language poetry: Yanfei Li and Raffia LiDutch sign language (NGT) interpreters: Zheng Dan Xia, Lela FontijnNGT poetry translation: Eva Prevaes <img width="1249" height="175" width_o="1249" height_o="175" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8dd6c55f513e148be97de74827eb98209004fba1f41c801bb98654649e61e979/CBK-logo-FC.jpg" data-mid="213053451" border="0" data-scale="43" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8dd6c55f513e148be97de74827eb98209004fba1f41c801bb98654649e61e979/CBK-logo-FC.jpg" />Made possible with a financial contribution from CBK Rotterdam. Part of Raffia Li’s on-going research Tilting towards the sensing feeling body, in which performance is a way of researching, experiencing and sharing sensuous knowledge. With this they aim to find new performance languages responding to the particularity of different bodies, different existences, and sensing preferences beyond the audio and visual realms. https://rrrrraffiali.com/To-all-the-shapes-falling-at-different-the-same-present-absent-times Sat, 21 May 2022 15:32:07 +0000 raffiali https://rrrrraffiali.com/To-all-the-shapes-falling-at-different-the-same-present-absent-times <img width="2311" height="1472" width_o="2311" height_o="1472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55c940e6fcfd40e6042f95fb8221663040d77cd6fd6e77aa19b1d659f2913a79/TATA.png" data-mid="143255539" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55c940e6fcfd40e6042f95fb8221663040d77cd6fd6e77aa19b1d659f2913a79/TATA.png" />To all the shapes falling at different/the same present/absent times/time I-我 we/us-我们 you-你/你们 They- TA/TA们, ( &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ) question mark&nbsp; single-channel video &amp; performance, 20 min, 2021 performers: Raffia Li, Miiel Ferráez, Marie Tučková́, Lou Lou Sainsbury, Miyoung Chang, Maoyi, and Yanfei Li (in video)at Understory Chant, The Dutch Art Institute &amp; Sonsbeek 20-24,&nbsp; 25 August 2021, Posttheater,&nbsp; Arnhem, NetherlandsA celebration of fluidity, fugitivity, friendship, and belongingness to nowhere/elsewhere, in the presence of the absent. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e68a731aea3278a073dd3671ef8b1da11aab70ff825151d3aee78ec6d83638b/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-4.00.31-PM.png" data-mid="143255696" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e68a731aea3278a073dd3671ef8b1da11aab70ff825151d3aee78ec6d83638b/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-4.00.31-PM.png" /> <img width="2873" height="1619" width_o="2873" height_o="1619" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02ae31ef01cf4f31a695de64075eb4ce52d347e26b0c19c0957f75c5fdd61a11/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-4.00.44-PM.png" data-mid="143258593" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02ae31ef01cf4f31a695de64075eb4ce52d347e26b0c19c0957f75c5fdd61a11/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-4.00.44-PM.png" /> <img width="1366" height="768" width_o="1366" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d831f93d8b644362a34cca23b60a8372b265431863294e2dc482c30617c8c6ae/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-4.10.31-PM.png" data-mid="143258528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d831f93d8b644362a34cca23b60a8372b265431863294e2dc482c30617c8c6ae/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-4.10.31-PM.png" /> The performance is multi-attentional, moments unfolding across the space on stage and off. It begins with a subversion of a question in which syllables are overstressed. The fragility of language is emphasised. Miyoung, Lou Lou, and Marie are seemingly engaging in learning, understanding and repeating words that are not clear to them. We are witness to an informal language lesson through pointing gestures.&nbsp;Raffia disrupts the proscenium framework descending on a ladder, Raffia’s first piece of furniture, found on moving to the Netherlands. She walks while supporting the ladder, a structure that typically supports you, becomes a crutch. -Descripiton excerps from Harun Morrison How do we find rhythm with each other? How does language connect us with each other, and how is this rhythm disrupted by the virus? A playfulness emerges, a melancholy, through food, through song, through which we may or may not have belonginging. I’m struck by the vignettes, the disruption of theatre space, which becomes a microcosm of the disruption of the study program, finding a place to be in the Netherlands…ways to find commonality and how to cross borders, how to bridge corners, how to care for each other in this time. -Review by Barby Asante performance excerp,editing/Raffia Li camera/Baha Görkem Yalım https://rrrrraffiali.com/How-do-I-lose-I Sat, 21 May 2022 17:17:23 +0000 raffiali https://rrrrraffiali.com/How-do-I-lose-I <img width="1280" height="862" width_o="1280" height_o="862" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1bc3eb639066306057b58845926a4cb849d79225c38322f8da3d3d1e425b7f2a/IMG_8DFD1ABC92FF-1.jpeg" data-mid="143260033" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1bc3eb639066306057b58845926a4cb849d79225c38322f8da3d3d1e425b7f2a/IMG_8DFD1ABC92FF-1.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="862" width_o="1280" height_o="862" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4618ec7b81d38f939afbd3282af457ea16400ed485033cc8164c8c0bdfbe7ee3/IMG_EBAE47AB7253-1.jpeg" data-mid="143260034" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4618ec7b81d38f939afbd3282af457ea16400ed485033cc8164c8c0bdfbe7ee3/IMG_EBAE47AB7253-1.jpeg" /> 吾 丧 我 How do I lose I single-channel video &amp; performance, 20-30 min, 2021 performers: Raffia Li, Miiel Ferráez, Iga Świeściak, and Yanfei Li (in video) at Performing Arts Forum, Saint-Erme-Outre-et-Ramecourt, France <img width="2879" height="1617" width_o="2879" height_o="1617" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77d6bd81e65565ee1ce5844ebf42bc99f34a67d44bd939799a4c53150e73b35c/Screen-Shot-2022-05-21-at-7.37.17-PM.png" data-mid="143260373" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77d6bd81e65565ee1ce5844ebf42bc99f34a67d44bd939799a4c53150e73b35c/Screen-Shot-2022-05-21-at-7.37.17-PM.png" /> <img width="1371" height="786" width_o="1371" height_o="786" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/caa460fc1aee073a36e10d91dab1780475c237245815fa3aaabc7610f99b65b5/Screen-Shot-2022-03-02-at-11.24.55-PM.png" data-mid="143259662" border="0" alt="Camera: Dakota Guo&nbsp;" data-caption="Camera: Dakota Guo&nbsp;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/caa460fc1aee073a36e10d91dab1780475c237245815fa3aaabc7610f99b65b5/Screen-Shot-2022-03-02-at-11.24.55-PM.png" /> <img width="2873" height="1605" width_o="2873" height_o="1605" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1414d05e07c29004d2a1a3e011b16ba61bf414d7cf2cd1e115e67d33dfb35247/Screen-Shot-2022-03-02-at-11.12.18-PM.png" data-mid="143259542" border="0" alt="Camera: Dakota Guo&nbsp;" data-caption="Camera: Dakota Guo&nbsp;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1414d05e07c29004d2a1a3e011b16ba61bf414d7cf2cd1e115e67d33dfb35247/Screen-Shot-2022-03-02-at-11.12.18-PM.png" /> This performance is a playful and expansive research about languages as sites/landscapes for collective subjectivity, working through an ancient text from Zhuangzi, a Taoist literature, and the different definitions of an “I” in Chinese characters, as “我”, a position of holding a weapon, or a kind of tilting ; as “吾”, the five entrances/exits in the encountering and sensing. What would happen if 吾 can lose 我？ It plays with the body in action of writing “我-I” with hand and chopsticks, in the air, and on water, on purposely producing the kind of writing that would disappear, playing with the idea of a constantly disappearing “I”, but also bringing up front the question of what counts as writing, and criticizing the performance itself using a highly sighted and hearing oriented format, reflecting the hierarchy of senses in a neurotypical world. performance excerp, editing/Raffia Licamera/Dakota Guo photo/Miyoung Chang https://rrrrraffiali.com/Listen-we-have-it-all Sun, 22 May 2022 06:41:12 +0000 raffiali https://rrrrraffiali.com/Listen-we-have-it-all <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ffcc497cfe9a5cff984ce151769b2982c20c4bee1cbaffc1ec1cc9247e82073/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-9.18.35-AM.png" data-mid="143285873" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ffcc497cfe9a5cff984ce151769b2982c20c4bee1cbaffc1ec1cc9247e82073/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-9.18.35-AM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c008a9141c258e9226b5fd0d17df914b6dde827524e3cdf4b1b0a936137b1b3d/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-9.18.05-AM.png" data-mid="143285872" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c008a9141c258e9226b5fd0d17df914b6dde827524e3cdf4b1b0a936137b1b3d/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-9.18.05-AM.png" /> A Trap. Listen, we have it all!video and photography series, 2019with Zhuang Zhuang, Xiao Xu, Baizong, Tan Ziyi, S, Yanfei Li, Haixia Li, Lingling Che, Sail &nbsp;Wallace Center, NTID, Rochester, NewYork, U.S, 2019 &nbsp; <img width="2880" height="1259" width_o="2880" height_o="1259" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab53c84f5119adbca526698d7b4a42ab849495906a2473490c6c4b38ed085eb8/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-8.49.01-AM.png" data-mid="143285520" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab53c84f5119adbca526698d7b4a42ab849495906a2473490c6c4b38ed085eb8/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-8.49.01-AM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1235" width_o="2880" height_o="1235" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec8e7a3b4c741234f22987427c6ae29ac600bbbc5b70237fe011d1a69db5991a/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-8.48.46-AM.png" data-mid="143285522" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec8e7a3b4c741234f22987427c6ae29ac600bbbc5b70237fe011d1a69db5991a/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-8.48.46-AM.png" /> <img width="2879" height="1368" width_o="2879" height_o="1368" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/645ab605da8b048092e67d37a2f72a6d06fd79327f69ccd6705f6eed5cfea74a/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-8.48.54-AM.png" data-mid="143285521" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/645ab605da8b048092e67d37a2f72a6d06fd79327f69ccd6705f6eed5cfea74a/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-8.48.54-AM.png" /> Deaf people are always described as living in a 无 声 世 界 silent world. Both hearing and deaf people are so used to these terms which has been oppressing and romanticizing the experience of being deaf in social media. This work takes the viewer’s hands and walks them into a trap starting with a word play of 声 音 sound/voice, but soon arriving a brand new playground of the source/origin of these sounds, where the old habit of constructing meanings will have to change.&nbsp; <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aad87f45681b4ce64b15de651e8d4f5e227fd127f3664f86623cc116e611b8af/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-9.14.28-AM.png" data-mid="143285812" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aad87f45681b4ce64b15de651e8d4f5e227fd127f3664f86623cc116e611b8af/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-9.14.28-AM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a427a8a7813f784411b9d98ee5f9b051b2e1e6ca3eeea18ca597d941c4b50377/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-9.12.06-AM.png" data-mid="143285811" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a427a8a7813f784411b9d98ee5f9b051b2e1e6ca3eeea18ca597d941c4b50377/Screen-Shot-2022-05-22-at-9.12.06-AM.png" /> https://rrrrraffiali.com/Tapping-is-so00-nice Sat, 21 May 2022 19:52:24 +0000 raffiali https://rrrrraffiali.com/Tapping-is-so00-nice <img width="2880" height="1619" width_o="2880" height_o="1619" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e18ded642af0ea2ffecf82107773b68a41bc60dde55a10a860f875be6af1a29e/Screen-Shot-2022-03-14-at-11.03.18-PM.png" data-mid="143284662" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e18ded642af0ea2ffecf82107773b68a41bc60dde55a10a860f875be6af1a29e/Screen-Shot-2022-03-14-at-11.03.18-PM.png" /> Touch? Tapping is so00 nice!Lecture performance, 20-25 min, 2020 English Voice: Francesca HawkerPerformed at Radio Kootwijk, Netherlands*In written Chinese, Chinese sign language, American sign language,&nbsp; spoken Chinese and English <img width="2079" height="1299" width_o="2079" height_o="1299" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25747b37aa84f0b42364a776ee53e8b21adeed007d7732af3e66cca2e9288de3/Screen-Shot-2022-03-14-at-11.27.42-PM.jpg" data-mid="143422266" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25747b37aa84f0b42364a776ee53e8b21adeed007d7732af3e66cca2e9288de3/Screen-Shot-2022-03-14-at-11.27.42-PM.jpg" /> This lecture performance is a post-ableist experiment through multi-layering of languages, and the in-betweens. It is mainly delivered through me typing, with my friend Francesca’s voice reading out what appears on the screen. It challenges the expectations of an ableist “efficient”society, and creates pauses, time to breathe, space for mistakes and the playfulness of delay. The shifts between American sign language, Chinese sign language, spoken and written Chinese, and English, makes“the fluidity and new body land” possible, as what I have learnt/unlearnt from being with my Deaf friends and collaborators. It also tapped into Protactile movement and language, lead by the DeafBlind community in the U.S, and John Lee Clark’s Protactile poem based on touch, and his Distantism theory criticizing “the privileging of the distance senses of hearing and vision”, bringing the audience into the in-between languages, gestures, and the possibilities in the not-yet-becoming. performance excerp, editing/Raffia Licamera/Baha Görkem Yalım