Jian Yi's practice is rooted in an ongoing enquiry into the ambiguities of emotional experience. They are interested in expanding the territory of performance practice by bridging the gap between our mind and our animal selves, the connection between the inside and the outside; exploring intensified mental and emotional states.

'Cloud States' is a multi-disciplinary performance art and dance piece mapping queer migrant belonging. Working with movement, art installation and video, 'Cloud States' builds towards a multi-form performance work exploring what it means to inhabit a space. Enabling the audience to access different experiences of time, memory and space, 'Cloud States' is concerned with redefining the politics of the body. In its drive to break down the borders of identification, 'Cloud States' works towards a perceptual shift in our understanding – changing our 'upright' perspective of the world and ourselves in a new kind of experiential body-politic – coming from the inside-out.
Image: Jassy Earl

Funded through our 2022 Autumn Residencies Scheme.