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    music video
    performance
    live
    film/video
DANCE / COMMERCIAL
FACILITATION / TEACHING

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Named after the stinging cells of jellyfish and other cnidarians, NEMATOCYST is an excavation of a potent force of aliveness, a venomous injection of love and liberation. A glowing jellyfish creature (MUCK) lures the audience into a collective altered state through a DJ set by Hearthealer, and then guides them back through breath.









The dance floor is a microcosm of the world. It is a place to purge choreographies of the learned body through a process of cross-contamination. It is a practice ground for re-membering and re-imagining what the body has been manipulated into forgetting. It is an experimental site for exorcising shame, and transmuting it into love and liberation. The intention of our collaboration is to facilitate embodied connection in an increasingly surveilled, capitalized, and disembodied world– to make the pleasure of embodied freedom irresistible. NEMATOCYST is invested in conjuring a habitat of spacious freedom on the dance floor and beyond. NEMATOCYST has activated dance floors across Asia and Europe in 15 different iterations, each one an irreplicable constellation of bodies, time, and space.





At the end of the 1.5-hour release, MUCK sheds their costume to facilitate collective aftercare, inviting rave goers to lay down together in the middle of the club, syncing their breaths with one another and the sound of ocean waves whispering, “You are free.” A tentacle swims around the intimate cuddle puddle, stamping bodies with the same message.

12.04.23 WIP Los Angeles 
12.15.23 Bacon, Tokyo
12.19.23 Bussy Temple, Singapore
12.24.23 Altered Spirits, Eaton Consciousness Festival, Hong Kong
12.30.23 Finder Shanghai, Groundless, Beijing 
01.05.24 Yuanshan Park Renegade, Taipei
01.13.24 Shapeshifter, Bangkok
01.19.24 Commune, Saigon 
01.27.24 Cham Chi Club, Hoi An
02.03.24 Orbitware, Bali
02.08.24 Terminal Dogma, Manila
02.16.24 Cakeshop, Seoul
10.17.24 Creamcake 3HD Festival, Berlin
11.03.24 Dao, Taichung
11.16.24 Red Room, Yangon

 
Costume by Aresnios Zachariadis
Portraits by Tiffany Leah Chung