Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

“Echoing Vision” explores the otherness, the alter-ego, and attributes that are opposite to so-called “normality” or “self”.

The normality of inanimate objects seems to be largely defined by their functionality. It’s just that simple and beyond question. Chairs are made to sit on while disco balls are designed for dance floors. However, within the context of an art installation, the functionality of objects is challenged. Likewise, this performance intends to challenge the established social code of conduct to explore for different forms identity within the same body.

Through the performance, LEVELS attempts to push beyond the limitations imposed by social roles, to get in touch with another side of the “self” which is usually beyond reach in daily life. The three artists, immersing themselves in their own process of introspection respectively, try to rediscover the “second self” that exists in another universe and peers back from the other side of the mirror.

After the performance there will be a talk during which the three artists will share with audience their ideas behind the work.

“回响视界”探索了他者、另一个自我，以及对立于主体内部所预设的“正常”、“自我”的属性。

无生命物体的常态往往由其功能性所决定，置于某种显而易见且不容质疑的情境之下。椅子是为了坐而存在，正如迪斯科球是为了舞池而生。然而在艺术装置的语境中，物的功能性受到了挑战。同样的，这场表演想要挑战社会行为准则的既有符码，以探索同一身体内的不同身份认同。

通过表演，LEVELS舞团试图超越社会角色所给予的限制，触碰到日常生活中无法触及的“自我”的另一层面具。三位艺术家将参与他们各自的内省过程，试图重新发现从镜中映射的、存在于宇宙中的“第二个自我”。

在表演结束后，三位艺术家将进行一个演后谈，分享个人的创作经验并与观众进行交流互动。

LEVELS is a performance group comprised of Jared Mimm (U.S), Wenting Sun (China) and Francisco Hauss (Mexico). The three artists come from different art backgrounds including conceptual performance art, dance and choreographing, and contemporary sculpture. Their different perspectives and practices allow them to create truly unique and dynamic collaborations.

Jared Mimm is an American conceptual performance artist based in Shanghai, China. His work examines social systems from everyday life, within the context of living in the urban jungle of a megacity. He often develops projects with a partner, or invites the audience to interact with him during his performance, as an integral part of his art practice. Reoccurring themes in his art deal with the body, nonverbal communication, ritual, sound, and intimacy.

Sun Wenting is a former Assistant Arts Professor at NYU Shanghai. She holds an MFA in dance from the University of Utah. As a performer, Wenting has worked with Slate Dance, Molly Heller, Satu Hummasti, and Netta Yerushalmy. She has performed, choreographed and taught throughout the United States, China, Europe and Japan. Her commercial work has led her to work in London with Immersive International, creating choreography with motion captured dance for private art commissions. She focuses on how the future of contemporary dance will be informed and expanded by new technologies.

Francisco Hauss is a Mexican artist. His practice covers a variety of media including installation, happening, performance, ritual, sculpture and music. His work celebrates nature as an intelligent system by embracing recently coined theories like dynamic systems, morphogenesis and biosemiotics and long forgotten believes, like the indigenous mysticism, and the empathetic phenomenology that it implies; and probes into the possibilities between cross-species and cultural systems.