Explore artist SU PinWen’s fascination with touch, sensitivity and tactile culture in this short film which offers a dynamic angle which contrasts with the theatre view, aiming to avoid the narrow gaze on the female body from a single perspective.

Created during the pandemic, Girl’s Notes Film Work gave audiences of SU’s progressive work a way of experiencing their unique visual language. While balancing a copy of the History of Beauty on their head, a vibrator triggers expressive hand movements, symbolising the power dynamics of women’s sexuality within relationships.

Taiwanese artist SU PinWen’s work challenges heteronormative notions of gender, feminism and nudity, taking dance into conceptual realms beyond the purely aesthetic.

Digital Event

  • Venue: Online
  • Date: 6-31 October 2023
  • Admission: Available to watch with a Digital Pass (Pay What You Can)
  • Duration: 3 minutes

Dance Umbrella Festival 2023 Across London & Online
6-31 October

About the artist +

Portrait of SU PinWen, sitting cross-legged wearing black.

Jyong-Jhe Huang

SU PinWen (He/him/They) is an artist and Artistic Director of Kua Bo Dance Theatre. He holds an MFA in Choreography at Taipei National University of the Arts and a bachelor’s in philosophy at Nan-hua University. His work challenges the heteronormative stereotypes revolving around notions of gender, feminism and nudity. Since 2013, SU has researched and practiced tactile culture. They take dance into conceptual art beyond the aesthetic genre.

Cast & Creative +

  • SU Pin-Wen
    Artist
  • Qianmo Studio
    Production Studio
  • Shiun-Huan LEE
    Director
  • Boni HUANG
    Assistant to Director
  • Ying-Ying TU
    Producer
  • Hsin-Yi HUANG
    Line Producer
  • Pi-kai CHANG
    Director of Photography
  • Wen-Hao SUNG, Chian-Wen CHEN
    Camera Assistants
  • Giin-Shen WONG
    Sound
  • HUANTANG Studio
    Post-Production

Access +

No audio description available.

A film with no music or speaking, only naturally occurring sound effects.

In the film, SU PinWen is only visible from the upper-chest upwards, wearing no clothes. He has a long plait of blonde hair resting on the right side of his body and on his head he is balancing a book titled “The History of Beauty”. He is against a dark backdrop. He puts on a pair of black latex gloves and proceeds to make various gesticulations with his hands and arms. He takes out a vibrator and presses it against his neck, whilst continuing to make movements with his hands and arms.

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