Co-Weaving Polyphony
Co-Weaving Polyphony is a choreographic investigation of polyphonic story-making that focuses on the process of weaving the voices of multiplicity rather than crafting a single, heroic, linear storytelling of one.
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27.5.26
Oyoun Berlin
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The artistic research
Yeong Ran Suh’s artistic practice unfolds through two interrelated strands: the ongoing commemoration project Rice, Ritual, Spirits and the choreographic practice Co-Weaving.
Rice, Ritual, Spirits is an ongoing research project dedicated to remembering and learning from the traditional rice-farming villages whose intertwined culture and ecology were erased in the wake of colonization and mechanization.
In parallel, Co-weaving is a choreographic practice that develops collective modes of storymaking, knowledge-making, and world-making in response to the crises of climate and care, as those issues can’t be solved by one but by the collective intelligence of many, and also to empower the collaborative power of the public. In this practice where these two strands constantly interact, Ran draws on socialist feminist perspectives, such as social mothering, the politics of gathering, and collaboration as counteractive to colonial and neoliberal mantras.
During the residency, Yeong Ran Suh and collaborators aim to develop methodologies and tools for communal gatherings and collective knowledge-making as forms of performance. They will share the Co-Future Weaving workshop (in progress), merging poetic creative practices with cognitive social change tools, with local participants in Berlin. Later, the workshop will be shared with various communities, such as fading village communities (Rice, Ritual, Spirits), as an artistic intervention.
CREDITS
Sang-eun Yoon is a choreographer, dancer, and performance reviewer based in Seoul. Drawing on her classical ballet background, she has critically reexamined classical ballet and theater aesthetics and explored ballet for everybody. She is a founder of Femi Floor, a feminist performing arts group, and a consultant in the gender-equal performing arts milieu.
Eon-jin Jeong is a designer and performing artist based in Seoul. She has collaborated on various projects, including dance, music, and fine art, in South Korea, Germany, France, Portugal, and Japan. After becoming a mom, she explores how art, mothering, and daily life can be merged amid the current care crisis, in search of individual self-transformation and social transition.
Yeong Ran Suh is a choreographer, performance reviewer, dramaturgical partner, and artistic researcher in Copenhagen and Seoul. She is a co-founder of Becoming Species, a climate activism performance group, and Nubim, a community-based art association. Her current artistic research focuses on non-secular, larger-than-human relationality in animist village rituals seeking artistic intervention through Co-Future Weaving workshops.
Yeong Ran Suh
Yeong Ran Suh is a choreographer and artist-researcher in Copenhagen and Seoul. She has created multidisciplinary dance performances based on her ethnography of Korean shamanism, traditional dance, and mythology to decolonize our current understandings and frames. She is a member of <Becoming Species>, a climate activism performance group, and <Nubim>, an artist collective for sustainability. Ran currently works and writes on traditional ecological knowledge, communities, and collective future-making.
IN CONNECTION is a 2-week residency that connects Danish performing artists with an international scene and invites international artists to take part in the Copenhagen scene. This artist exchange was curated in the fall 2025 by co-curator Madhumita Nandi from Oyoun Berlin.