As part of the symposium Performing Postsocialism: Cultures of Performance-Making in Twenty-First-Century China, BEK is hosting a two-part artistic program featuring a screening of Linger In Sounds: The (For)getaway by Qu Chang and Ye Hui, followed by a DJ Set by Hotpotposse.
The symposium is organized by the FWF-funded research project Performing Postsocialism in Twenty-First-Century China, led by Prof. Dr. Rossella Ferrari, University of Vienna.
Free admission, no registration required.
Qu Chang is a curator and writer based in Berlin. She is the Curator of Discursive Practices at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and runs the exhibition programme between 2025 and 2026 at Shekmai Space with Echo Shi. Qu received her PhD in 2024 from the Cultural Studies Department at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Her doctoral research focuses on the discourse of “love” in China's reform era. Previously, she served as a curator at Para Site, Hong Kong. Her curatorial projects include L is for the way you look at me (2025-27, HKW), Woven Lotus (2025-2026, Sekmai), Follow the Feeling (2024, Guangdong Times Museum), Café do Brasil (2019, Para Site), Crush (2018, Para Site), among others. In 2022, Qu and Ye Hui initiated the long-term project Linger in Sounds, an artistic research that probes into the structure of feeling in contemporary China through the audio and visual productions of popular music. Since 2021, she is a member of 楔 xiē. Together with Hao Jingban, Shen Xin, Yunyu “Ayo” Shih, they presented the exhibition To Bind, Embed, Shimmer, and Brace at DAAD Galerie, Berlin (2022). Her video and textile installation Happiness Hometown (2025) was presented at the 1st Bukhara Biennale, curated by Diana Campbell.
Ye Hui is an artist and composer based in Vienna. 2004-2011 studied composition and electroacoustic composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduated in 2011. 2010-2018 studied Digital Arts and TransArts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, graduated in 2018. She works with different media including experimental documentary, video and audio installation, and often address the social-political aspect of the act of listening and to examine the fluidity of individual’s social identity, as well as its reflection in technology and sonic culture. In her most recent projects, the subject matter of (digitalised) voice is essential for her research. Ye is laureate of the Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2018 and a co-founder of Mai Ling, a queer-feminist Asian artists’ collective. Her works have been recently presented at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Secession, Belvedere 21 (AT), the Jim Thompson Art Center (TH), Lothringer 13 (GE), WRO Media Art Biennial (PL) and Times Museum (CN). In 2022, she holds the fellowship of BS projects for sound art – a scholarship program hosted by the Kunsthochschule Braunschweig and the state of Lower Saxony.
HOTPOTPOSSE: “我们去吃⽕锅吧!” (wǒmen qù chī huǒguō ba!) is a resonating invitation that unites individuals. This sentiment echoes amongst us three: Xing, Karin and Shi Yin, an Asian DJ collective hailing from Vienna. Our musical influences span HipHop, Futuregrooves, House and everything in between. Each member of the Hotpotposse contributes their unique essence to the collective cauldron, constantly surprising one another. The combinations we come up with are limitless, and it's all about making tasteful choices along the way!