Performing & Visual Arts
Art Kit Reservation for Communal Composition II at Sonic Shaman 2026
Come join us in this participatory performance where you can become co-authors of a living artwork shaped by sound, gestures and collective presence.
The performance stage is free for all ages to attend and require no ticketing.
Choose to be in the space to listen, experience and be attuned. Reserve the kit here if you wish to participate and co-author by doodling and weaving freely to the soundscape. We look forward to communal compositioning with you.
[About the performance]
Communal Composition II is conceived and curated by Cherry Chan. A durational participatory installation unfolding over three hours, where visitors become co-authors of a living artwork shaped by sound, gesture, and collective presence.
An evolving soundtrack, mixed live by DJs (Cherry Chan, DJ Zai, Itek) provides the tonal ground for the work, shifting between rhythms and textures that participants attune to through spontaneous gestures of marking, weaving, and pleating. Over time, these collective actions accumulate into an evolving tableau that blurs the boundaries between drawing, sculpture, and ritual.
Visitors are encouraged to arrive in muted tones of beige, brown, or black, and to create ephemeral crowns from leaves, or to doodle and draw underscoring the work’s grounding in care, ecology, and communal embodiment.
A live camera transposes these gestures into manipulated moving images across an LED screen, layered with images of living relics (local botany remixed) rendering participation itself as an ever-shifting composition. Transforming the space into an environment of attunement, Communal Composition II invites sound, form, and shared presence to merge into a continuously unfolding artwork.
