Programme
Soundings

Header image: Liang-Jung Chen, ebb is to flow as wax is to wane, 2023. Photo by Laura Prim, 2025. Image courtesy of Liang-Jung Chen, Carla Jaria and Soho House Barcelona.
Performance 12–6pm, 17 Jan Display on view 20 Jan–04 Feb
As the opening chapter of Living, Rehearsing…, Soundings sets up an atmosphere where doubt and uncertainty become prompts for unpredictable interactions amongst artists and audiences. It is a collective probing of a void, a testing of things that elude our immediate perception, a tracing of the limits and a way to frame contrasting concepts of rehearsing and performing to examine possibilities before any firm direction is taken.
The artists included in Soundings appear both as distinct presences and as interdependent elements of a shifting ensemble. All of their actions evolve over six hours, encouraging audiences to wander through the rooms and corridors of YDP as active explorers. The result is an experience akin to a non-linear play. The sound of a cello reaches visitors as they turn a corner. A wax sculpture slowly melts in the conservatory. Moisture gathers and clears on the windowpanes. Bursts of laughter cut across the space. Pages of scores await deciphering as movements advance and recede in fits and starts. Aroma from a reimagined pie shop wafts out of the Artist’s Lab…Affinities and divergences accumulate: moments of harmony and unison give way to dissonance, while overlapping actions create a polyphony.
This first six-hour performance event in the series will feature Kelvin Atmadibrata, Liang-Jung Chen in collaboration with Kai Chareunsy, Hanako Hayakawa, Okkyung Lee, Jin Hao Li and Swilipino.
Between 20 January and 4 February, a rehearsal continues without performers. Residues from the performance remain present in the building. Throughout the YDP building, What Is Left Behind (Phase I), an evolving six-channel sound installation, extends the live performance programme by translating each event into lingering sonic traces.
What Is Left Behind (Phase I) features sound contributions by Kelvin Atmadibrata, Kai Chareunsy, Liang-Jung Chen, Hanako Hayakawa, Okkyung Lee, Jin Hao Li and Swilipino. Recorded by Andrej Bako. Remixed by Zhuo Mengting and Andrej Bako. Guest-curated by Zhuo Mengting, in collaboration with YDP curators Erin Li and Billy Tang.







