imiji パフューム 메이킹
Wakabacho WHARF Fringe 2027
Zander Porter & Yooha Cheon
image perfume making is an intergenerational render of and by Yooha and Zander exploring cross²-cosplay unbecoming.
imiji パフューム 메이킹 is an intergenerational render of and by Yooha Cheon and Zander Porter, exploring cross²-cosplay unbecoming and study of hyperpop-pioneering sounds and their place in time (~2006, Facebook) before technological domination by, e.g., businessmen of Silicon Valley. A shared (operating) system is performed and destabilized through both fusion and fission of Yooha and Zander's bodies-as-holograms. Through protocolized gesture, the performance sources vulnerabilities from a historically loaded U.S.–Japan–Korea loop and its implications for late-exorbitant cultural consumption. Depression and social withdrawal are articulated via somber techno-aesthetics, including (AI) software predecessors like VOCALOID. imiji パフューム 메이킹 examines some qualities of this psycho-cultural loop with disidentificatory potential, replete with worlds of direct impact and lightness.
Venue
- WAKABACHO WHARF
- 3-47-1 Wakaba-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama
231-0056
Date and Time
2.13 Sat 11:00
2.14 Sun 11:00
Running Time
40min
Language
English, Korean and Japanese
Translation/Subtitles
English live translation (of Korean) and English surtitles (of Japanese)
Artist Information
- Yooha Cheon
- Yooha Cheon is a performance artist and choreographic researcher from South Korea, exploring voluntary displays of a mutating self and the co-infection of interior and (performed) surface. Across choreography and performance, Yooha observes how bodies become legible through systems of representation, with a practice moving between the authentic and the artificial, treating “the self” as something rehearsed, rendered, copied, or continuously being pasted. Yooha’s work inhabits states in which performer and image → subject and character → intimacy and simulation contaminate one another. Rather than searching for a stable self beneath these surfaces, Yooha approaches the performing body as a transforming screen for infinite projections, where the surface itself can produce, mutate, and infect what is understood as interior. Yooha was a member of MWAM Danse Company in Seoul, South Korea (2018–2022) and graduated from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) at the Amsterdam University of the Arts in 2026. Recently they toured with the collective Trevoga to Bari International Gender Festival (Bari), Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest), and Tangente (Montréal).
- ザンダー・ポーター
- Zander Porter is an artist (artistic researcher) and choreographer (dancer-cyborg) based primarily in Berlin. Working between liveness and onlineness, ze interpolates (dis)identification and (dis)embodiment as phenomenological inquiries between surface, soma, portal, and psyche. Zander’s practices dissect and recompose attention and identity through gamification of gender, affect, interlocution, and subjectivity. Zander’s work critically exposes neoliberal orders of hyper-individualization and reimagines staged/documented ceremonies of the techno-social. Ze articulates byproducts (expressions, performativities) of this negotiation as (technogenetic, neuroatypical) matrices of queerer relationality. Zander (ザンダー, زاندر, 잔더) has been a core member of XenoEntities Network (XEN), a platform for discussion and experimentation focusing on intersections of queer, gender, and feminist studies with digital technologies. Holding a high-honors BA in Art Studio (with additional coursework in Computer Science and Performance Studies) from Wesleyan University and an MA in Choreography from DAS (Amsterdam University of the Arts), ze has worked or participated in residencies at Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art (New York), Cité internationale des arts (Paris), TRAUMA (Berlin), the Saison Foundation (Tokyo), National Institute for Space Research (São José dos Campos), Leonardo@Djerassi (Woodside), Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (Zurich), DANSEatelier (Copenhagen), and the National Center for Dance (Bucharest), alongside reception of disparate production and research grants or awards and participation in various exhibition and festival contexts internationally.
Staff, Cast and Credits
Choreographed and performed by Zander Porter & Yooha Cheon
Sound composition by Doukus
Production support from Catalina
Funding from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Japan
