Maoyi

artistic research - audiovisual - sound - performance - digital technology

I am an activist and visual, sound artist, my practice engage with the medium of sound, video, installation and performance, focus on topics related to critical spatial practices and somatechnologies. My research spans feminist somatic practice, sonic dataveillance and draws attention to the relationship between technological control and the body. My work often engage with sonic essay and audiovisual performance, considering how motion can be interpreted through sounds to create rich narratives, and to deliver political urgencies with affective speculation. Working between silence, speech, and music, I stage and pose questions around transparency and opacity, becoming invisible and speaking up, camouflage and assemblage.

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    • Night Dissipation

    Performance

    • 31-03-2024 t/m 03-03-2024
    • In collaboration with: Derek MF Di Fabio
    • Location: Available & the Rat, Rotterdam
    • Maoyi Qiu and Derek MF Di Fabio present a shadow show with live sound performance.

    “So Happy Together” Sympa Symposium

    Workshop

    • 01-03-2024 t/m 01-03-2024
    • In collaboration with: Little Red Riding Hood
    • Location: Roodkapje, Rotterdam
    • An audio correspondence has presented on the webpage with a listening installation in a chillout room for audiences to engage with.

    Paranoiaaa

    Performance

    • 28-10-2023 t/m 28-10-2023
    • Location: Pavilion on the water, Rotterdam

    Rib Summer Lab

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-07-2023 t/m 31-08-2023
    • In collaboration with: Soupspoon collective
    • Location: Rib, Rotterdam
    • From summer 2017, Rib started with a new residency program dedicating its summer slot July and August to an Open Call for exhibition proposals and activities by young artists, mainly from Rotterdam. The residency consists of a production period followed by an exhibition or a public program. During the residency, the selected artists will become the new host, run the space and determine its new opening hours.
    • https://www.ribrib.nl/summer-lab

    Outline Expo

    Performance

    • 08-06-2023 t/m 08-06-2023
    • In collaboration with: Outline Collective
    • Location: OT301, Amsterdam
    • An evening of performance, lecture, screening gathered at OT301.

    Conditioned Listening

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 22-04-2023 t/m 31-05-2023
    • In collaboration with: Tomi Hilsee
    • Location: Available & the Rat, Rotterdam
    • In South Explorer 2023, Maoyi Qiu and Tomi Hilse host a listening room under the research around 'conditioned listening'.
    • https://www.southexplorer.nl/available-and-the-rat

    Thresholding: the limit of arrival

    Performance

    • 06-07-2022 t/m 15-07-2022
    • Location: Centrale Fies, Dro

    Artist talks

    Residencies / exchange

    The Good Falling

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 10-02-2023 t/m 10-02-2023
    • In collaboration with: Izaro Ieregi
    • Location: The Wild Known, Rotterdam
    • Concept, Director: Izaro Ieregi Performance: Maoyi Qiu, Rhode Nadine, Raffia Li, Virginia Vivaldi, Izaro Ieregi Camera: Gabi Dao Sound design, Editing: Maoyi Qiu. Maoyi Qiu is one of the cast member and the sound designer for the the performative film "The good falling", developed during her residency at Het Wilde Weten.
    • https://www.hetwildeweten.nl/izaro-ieregi-the-good-falling/

    Rifts - MusicMakers Hack Lab

    Performance

    • 27-01-2023 t/m 05-02-2023
    • In collaboration with: CTM festival
    • Location: HAU 2, Berlin
    • At the 24th edition of CTM festival, Maoyi research and performed together with group of musician and audiovisual artist under the theme of "Rifts" – the connective possibilities of disruption / collapse along boundaries, and to realize new musical ideas. It culminates in a public final performance at HAU2.
    • https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2023/programme/schedule/event/rifts-musicmakers-hacklab-finale

    I happen to be doing this for you

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 10-01-2023 t/m 14-01-2023
    • In collaboration with: Kim Zeevalk, Melyn Chow
    • Location: Frascati Theater Amsterdam, NL, Amsterdam
    • 'I happen to be doing this for you' is an exhibition that contains multiple audiovisual installations that explore mime performance, binaural recording technology, and film in shaping sensory intimacy. It examines the method of speculative stories telling and working with human sensory imagination by drawing on the “sonic immediacy” of listening to true-to-reality (reproduced) sound.

    Investigating the Dialectic of Arrival

    Residencies / exchange

    • 15-09-2022 t/m 15-12-2022
    • In collaboration with: Goethe Institute
    • Location: Goethe Institute Rotterdam, Rotterdam
    • Soupspoon consists of a group of Rotterdam artists with roots in various Asian countries who see themselves as a study group for performative and body-related artistic research and who want to create a common, Asian contextualized space in the Netherlands for the special, the elusive, and for an art practice of 'small gestures' and 'micro-politics'.
    • https://www.goethe.de/ins/nl/nl/kul/gin/ssp.html

    Symphony of Intimacies

    Performance

    • 27-04-2022 t/m 30-04-2022
    • In collaboration with: DAAD Gallery
    • Location: Radial System, Berlin
    • The piece is built around a site-specific, structure-sensitive, touch-based sonic architectural interface made especially for multiple performers by Nguyễn + Transitory. Maoyi, Kamila Metwaly, Andrés Pinto Álvaro, Mieko Suzuki and Monica Vanesa Tedja collectively transform sounds through touch, attempting to fuse the body with the instrument being played.
    • https://www.radialsystem.de/en/veranstaltungen/symphony-of-intimacies/

    Seasonal Neighbors Our Invisible Hands

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 30-01-2022 t/m 17-04-2022
    • In collaboration with: Ioana Lupascu
    • Location: Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, Hasselt
    • Seeds on the table, I am looking at her looking at them looking at me. Concept & text: Ioana Lupascu Sound composition: Maoyi (Peixuan Qiu) Translation and dutch voice: Hannah Kalverda
    • https://www.z33.be/en/programma/seasonalneighbours/

    Queer Shape

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 26-06-2019 t/m 30-06-2019
    • In collaboration with: Queering Memory ALMS conference 2019
    • Location: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
    • Queer shape is a collective queer body archival project. It challenges, breaks down and creates new ways of seeing, living and making queer bodies and expressing them through voice, writing, drawing and digital expressions. Materials are taken from a series of life drawing sessions and writing workshops through collecting, translating, digitizing into pieces of drawings, texts and videos.
    • https://queeralmsberlin2019.de/

    Disappointment Letter

    Other

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

      Pricing

    • Holland Scholarship

    • 2020
      Pricing

    • Dream and Deed

    • 2021
      Pricing

    • Sedje hemon scholarship

    • 2021