Celebrating 10 years of Readymade Works with a 10 hour dance marathon. 40 dancers, 12 minutes each.

In a parallel world dreaming of merging between species, a new creature is discovered. Plucked out of its natural habitat, it feels the curious gaze of the scientist closely examining a specimen.

Video artwork by Lian Loke and Paul Warren.
Live performance by Lian Loke and Michaela Davies.
FEM-me exhibition, Bankstown Arts Centre

The Exotic Fruits Lab is a collaboration between Lian Loke and Kristina Mah. Through this week-long immersion, the artists explore and experiment with movement, the body, and image to question identity and transformation. The lab will incubate the development of “Exotic Fruits”, a durational performance taking place at Melaka Arts and Performances Festival in Malaysia, on August 31, 2024. 
 
As Westernised children of South-East Asian migrants, we are caught between worlds. Our parents sought to assimilate into their adopted country, rejecting Asian traditions and superstitions for new found freedoms. Yet we long for deeper connection with our lost cultural heritage, beyond an obsession with the exotic. In this performance we create our own rituals of acceptance and integration, drawing on nostalgic childhood memories of food and festivals. We notice and listen to our embodied narratives and uninitiated understandings of cross-cultural identities, language and meaning. 
 
We question and converse through playful rituals drawing on the absurd as ways to reconnect and converse with our broken lineages, with broken language. Asking ourselves the perplexing question, am I a banana or an egg, or something in between?
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Supported by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
4a.com.au/events/the-exotic-fruits-residency

Thrilled to be performing in an art-science collaboration with Dr Elena Knox (Waseda University) and Garth Knight as part of the Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Tokyo.
Performance date: Saturday, 28th September 2019

Fabrication team:
Abhiruchi Chhikara
Susana Alarcon

Heartfelt thanks to Ruchi and Susana for their incredible work on the lasercutting, 3D printing and assembly of the shrimp tail and electronic led fibreoptic feelers, and Maya Petrovna for helping me make the headpiece.

Performance artist playing the Ice host for secret fringe event Ice.Smoke.Bär during Dark Mofo, Hobart. Curated by Anand, Alice and Allona.
Thursday 13th, Friday 14th June.
Photo: Hannah Love

Lola dancing to Copacabana in the Dissection Room, Vet School, JD Stewart Building, University of Sydney
The Living Room Theatre Company, March 2018

When movement improvisation meets sonic composition in the shape of a ball, who leads and who follows? Teetering on the edge between music and noise, can the dancers next move create art or chaos?
by The Futile Research Lab
Saturday, 27th January 2018, 6pm at 107 Projects, Redfern St Redfern

https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Sydney-Interactive-Arts-Meetup/
https://twitter.com/nanoluke/status/806769635458621440

Performer in Emma Prices' 24 H(our) Diner, Day for Night 2016, Performance Space Sydney