Yun Lee and Stephanie Pan in collaboration with Wei-Chieh Shih Part of Double Echo of Time exhibition curated by Wen Chin Fu In a search to understand the world around us, we create and tell stories. Whether factual or completely mythological, these stories form the basis of our personal and collective lore, defining our identities…
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Orito
This new robot opera by Ulrike Quade Company, in collaboration with opera director Lisenka Heijboer-Castañon and composer Stephanie Pan, draws inspiration from Orito, a character in David Mitchell’s novel “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet”. In the book, Orito is a midwife and the only non-prostitute allowed into the Dutch East India Company trading…
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Album release: The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
Stephanie Pan’s The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice in a chaotic world. Celebrating qualities like intuition, vulnerability and emotionality, it is a vision…
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The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto
The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice and making sense of your own place in a chaotic world; to not always swim against the current,…
collaborative, composer, maker, performer, voice
Re-Imagining Opera
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I have missed you forever – Dutch National Opera
A procession and a dog In a theatre, various people come together for a memorial service. As is in keeping with funeral tradition, each individual has a different memory, image or idea of the person being commemorated. After all, the deceased person fulfilled many different roles and carried many unseen experiences with him. Gradually, multiple…
designer, maker
Algorithmic Knitting Design
Algorithmic Knitting Design is a project by Stephanie Pan integrating fashion design, knitting and algorithmic thinking into the development of a large collection of handknitting patterns for wearable attire, available to general public. With the project she is developing a growing collection of knitwear patterns that incorporate algorithmic computing and digital aesthetics into their designs.…
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An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radioplay
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They Gather: Entertaining a small place
By some form of accident Bridget was Miss Junior Showgirl at the Kyabram Show circa 1985. This is where this begins. A work about parading, grief, survival and beauty. A new module in development ‘Entertaining A Small Place’ was presented as part of ‘Watch US Dance’ at University of Salford on November 8, 2019. Performed…
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They Gather: Corpus Alimentation
An immersive multisensory performance that is part documentary, part science fiction, part ritual: How to survive a falling lift, a mother’s story of her newborn’s urgency to feed, how to repot a plant and an account of the person who survived the greatest free fall in history all become metaphors for a state of emergency.…