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.
Heat leaks - video 8'50", 2023.
Concept: Maoyi Qiu
Video Editing: Maoyi Qiu
Sound: Maoyi Qiu
Thresholding: to the limit of an arrival - Still image of video "Thresholding: to the limit of arrival", 6'57", 2022.
Centrale Fies,
Dro, Italy.
Thresholding: to the limit of an arrival - Video installation and live performance, 11’57”, 2022.
Aeroponic Act, Dutch Art Institute, July, 2022.
Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy.
Concept: Maoyi Qiu
Video editing: Maoyi Qiu
Sound composition: Maoyi Qiu
Voice: Nataly Ba
Performance: Ros del Olmo, Derek Di Fabio, Izaro Ieregi Gonzalez, Maoyi Qiu
Visual documentation: Baha Görkem Yalım, Clara Winter
Thresholding: to the limit of an arrival - Video and Performance. Aeroponic Act, July, 2022. Centrale Fies,
Dro, Italy.
Symphony Of Intimacies - Video documentary 2'51", 2022.
In the frame of „SENSE – Geographies of Perception“.
DAAD Gallery 2021 November
Radial system, 2022 April
Berlin, Germany
Symphony of Intimacies - Radial system, 2022 April
Berlin, Germany
The Good Falling - Still image from Film "The good falling", 18'37", 2022.
Het Wilde Weten
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Concept, Director: Izaro Ieregi
Performance: Maoyi Qiu, Rhode Nadine, Raffia Li, Virginia Vivaldi, Izaro Ieregi
Camera: Gabi Dao
Sound design, Editing: Maoyi Qiu
Conditioned Listening - Installation, Sound, 2022.
Maoyi Qiu & Tomi Hilsee
Available & the Rat
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Conditioned Listeing is a constructed acoustic space, conceived not in relation to the visitor as a spectator but as a playful participant in an active testing site on the shared creation and responsibility of composer and listener. A score sheet, layered with relational sounding diaries and multi-verging paths, joins visitors, and us, into the process of researching, proposing and composing a narrative; constructing the exhibition through how an object and sound feels. The dual acts of composition and listening, opens up the question of what agent, object, or action we are conditioned to or what the sound signifies.
Fruiting Bodies - Sound installation, 2022.
BACO (Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna) & Orto Botanico di Bergamo “Lorenzo Rota”.
Bergamo, Italy.
