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Songkun Wan

Born in Hubei, China

Lives & works in Guangzhou, China

Songkun Wan's work involves contemporary performance, moving images, theatre, and poetry. His practice is based on social identity and gender analysis, using soft context to express the intimate relationship between people and the psychological trauma experienced by artists. He is committed to breaking the physical barriers between scenes and circumstances, connecting audience and visual practice with empathy and synaesthesia. Graduated from the Royal College of Art, Songkun has been widely performed in the public program across China and Europe, including 'The Return of The Repressed' - Migratory300 - Aranya Theater Festival, 'kinaesthesia' - Royal Academy of Music, 'Mobile Archive' – Sadler’s wells theatre, 'Love Me Tender' - Shenzhen OCAT Art Museum.

Education

2018-2020 MA, Royal College of Art, Contemporary Art Practice, Performance

2013-2017 BA, Zhujiang College of South China Agricultural University (SCAU),

Visual Communication Design, Guangdong, China

Exhibition Experience

Group Shows, performance

2021 ‘The Return of The Repressed’，director：Bill Aitchison，Migratory 300，The First Aranya Theater Festival，Qinhuangdao，China
2021 ‘Live Performance Project ’，‘PicnicArtFestival’，Tank Shanghai，Shanghai，China
2020 ‘Whoo Am I’, ‘Phase Transition’RCA x FutureLab，West Bund Art Center，Shanghai，China
2020 ‘Whoo Am I’, Till We Meet Again IRL，Asia-Art-Activism，London，UK
2020 Participatory Exhibition with Archived Contemporary Performance, OCAT Shenzhen, China
2020 RAM X RCA ‘Kinaesthesia’ in ‘Surrealist Cabaret’, Composer&Visual Design: Max Burstyn, Choreography: Jiachen Zou, Collaboration with Awc(Chuwen) Wang, Songkun Wan, Sergei Zinchuk, Yukako Tanaka, Rieko Whitfield, London, UK
2019 MA costume design for performance show, London College of Fashion, ‘Mobile Archive’ design by Sihan Yang, performed by Songkun Wan, Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis studio, London, UK
2019 ‘Untitled Apple II’ Across RCA, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2019 ‘Body Whispers’ Contact Improvisation Workshop, Leading Artist, Invited by LSE student Union & Transparent Domian-RCA Curation Collective , Saw Swee Hock Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
2019 Cement Park Live Art Festival, Shanghai, China
2019 Disorder Live Art Festival, Asylum Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
2019 CAPPED OUT, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2019 Show 2019 RCA, performed in ‘Só, Mais Um’ by Olav Lorentzen.
2019 RCA Fashion Show All AT ONCE, performed ‘Phantom Body’, the project was initiated by Men’s wear designer Henna Aaltonen and choreographed by performance artist Lisa Hennig-Olsen for Songkun Wan and Garrett Nunnink, London, UK
2019 Stages of Life, Opening and Performance Evening at Harrow Arts Centre, London, UK
2019 Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2018 Across RCA, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2017 Undergraduate Graduation show, SCAU, Guangzhou, China
2014 Outstanding student work exhibition, SCAU, Guangzhou, China

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