2025
Sinic Touch
performance + installation Art
Stockholm, Sweden
Concept & Research: Chang Liu (Leo)
Photography & Photoshop: Chang Liu (Leo)
Copy Writer: Chang Liu (Leo)
Installation:Chang Liu (Leo) & Lander Casier
Documentation: Lander Casier
Research Support: Martin Sonderkamp & Marius Dybwad Brandrud
Produced in 2025
Premiered at Dance Buidling, Stockholm University of the Arts, Stockholm, Sweden
Concept:
Sinic Touch is an embodied research installation exploring how Chinese dance gestures, body lineages, and pedagogical traditions can enter a Nordic institutional space as soft interventions.
Through 45 small rice-paper touch sheets placed throughout the dance building, the installation
introduces fragments of Chinese bodily training, image- making, and cultural memory. Visitors are invited to gently touch, read, and move with these sheets, encountering a dispersed choreography shaped by curiosity, fragility, and cultural translation.
This work also investigates the spatial and cultural dynamics of enclaves and exclaves: the building as a
"territory" (enclave) where local norms dominate, and each Chinese gesture as a "detached territory" (exclave) that carries a foreign, historical, and diasporic presence.
