Maoyi

Over the past nine months, BAK’s Fellows in Utrecht and Istanbul have been deeply engaged in individual and collective artistic explorations, sharing insights and fostering creative dialogues. This moment also instigated the sharing and reconnection with collectivist initiatives, non-official histories, and subterranean legacies that have enacted and cultivated solidarities against the grain of imposed archives, identities, and structures.

“Soupspoon Zine Vol.1: How to be Together” is a printed reflection on our first research period, supported by Reading Room Rotterdam and TENT. While establishing a rhythm of hangouts, our research focused on ways of being and (un)learning together.

The hosting space, Imaginary Z is an artist run space, founded in 2021, it is located in Hanzhou China, a city next to the economic capital Shanghai, and an emerging hub for independent art spaces . Under the same title - “The Child of All Demos”(working title), the exhibition featured a body of works consists two short films, a sound installation and a manuscript, marking my first solo exhibition.

Maoyi Qiu and Derek MF Di Fabio present a shadow show with live sound performance.

Over nine months of collaboration with TENT and RRR, Soupspoon attempts to delve deeper into the methodologies of collective-making in relation to diaspora experiences through three thematic working units, namely, “How To Be Together,” “Decision To Leave,” and “Temple Making.” The project is grounded in regular collective studies among SOUPSPOON members, which intermittently takes the shape of public sessions situated in different spaces and contexts within Rotterdam.

An audio correspondence has presented on the webpage with a listening installation in a chillout room for audience to engage with.

BAK has been developing its post-academic fellowship program since 2017. The program focuses on facilitating research that reframes and rethinks conditions of the contemporary through theoretically informed and sociopolitically driven art and inquiry. It offers positions to practitioners working across art, theory, and social action, providing the opportunity and resources to develop their respective practice, research, and talent.

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.

An evening of performance, lecture, screening gathered at OT301.

In South Explorer 2023, Maoyi Qiu and Tomi Hilse host a listening room under the research around 'conditioned listening'.

A contributor to the Letters of Disappointment, Grils Like Us issue 14.

The talk presents visual materials, sonic chapters, plots, and anecdotes of Maoyi Qiu's artistic and activism practice and research cross geopolitics and time-space, and their current research around soma-technologies and sonic dataveillance.

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.

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.

'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.

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'.

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.

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

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.