Blue Sky Academy #331C

“Blue Sky Academy #331C” is at the same time an artistic experiment as it is an academy with the purpose to revive Siberian shamanism as a spiritual practice. In a live-hosted hybrid of dance, lecture, video screening and tele-presence performance, “Blue Sky Academy #331C” opens a discursive space that provide new visibility to the old, supposedly irrational belief system and the alternative views of the world inherent in shamanism. The starting point lies with the constantly marginalised Buryatian people who nomadically dwell mainly in Siberia and other parts of Russia, in Mongolia, Manchuria and Central Asia, crossing countries and borders.

Media artist Choy Ka Fai – a former tanzhaus nrw Factory Artist – creates the online simulation of a performance as well as a supernatural dance experience in a visual-documentary and rendered world with “Blue Sky Academy #331C”. The dialogue about the body and mental states in these strange times will be broadcast via a live stream from Choy Ka Fai’s interactive website “Digital Blue Sky”. The website offers extensive photographic and virtual research material on the Blue Sky Academy and will remain available and expand as a digital archive after the performance.

Choy Ka Fai is a Berlin-based artist from Singapore. His multi-genre art practice is situated at the crossroads of dance, media art, and performance. His continued examination within the metaphysics of the human body, technological experimentation, anthropological discoveries and dance experiences that fluctuate from the futuristic into the paranormal or bizarre are at the core of his explorations.

Duration: ca. 85 min.  (30 min. Live lecture; 55 min. Virtual parcours) / contains English

Please note: After booking you’ll receive the link to the event shortly before the performance starts.