VECTOR#6: The Sound of Intimacy

Begüm Erciyas (she/her) was involved in various dance projects in Turkey, while studying molecular biology and genetics in Ankara. Later, she studied choreography and is now living between Berlin and Brussels. Since 2015, Begüm has been developing transdisciplinary formats, which go beyond the frontal black box setting and which invite singular audience members to be alone with the work. The tension between isolation and togetherness is always a central topic. She also engages artistically with new technologies that define and challenge our sense of collectivity. Her work has been presented internationally in performing arts, music and visual arts contexts. Between 2021 and 2026, she is one of the house artists at DeSingel Antwerp.

Hee Suhui is a queer transdisciplinary artist, composer, and electronic musician. As Anise, her music fuses glitchy beats, ethereal vocals, field recordings, and chamber textures. Her project Ill Behaviour/Autophony explores the ill body through fragmented bodily sounds, live sampling, and operatic improvisation. She premiered nonbreakingspace at the Singapore International Festival of the Arts (2022) and Ill Behaviour at Singapore Art Week (2024). Recent collaborations include Esplanade, Goethe Lab, and National Gallery Singapore. She was in residence at Esplanade, Goethe-Institut, and Hi-Viz Satellites (2024), and is currently a Dance Nucleus Associate Artist (2024 – 2025).

Albert Garcia, a multidisciplinary artist from Macau with Filipino migrant roots, is based in Taipei. His work explores hybrid identity, survival, and the immigrant experience through performance and multimedia. With a BA in Media Studies (2012) and an MFA in Dance Performance (2017), his practice centers on movement and storytelling. Themes of labor, citizenship, and resilience run through works like Joy, Untitled 2.0, and The Survival Guide. These performances reflect on the past's impact on the present, migration, and identity. Under the theme Survival Guide, Garcia examines coping strategies and the performativity of identity in today’s complex social landscape.

jee chan is an artist and choreographer whose work is concerned with questions surrounding the displaced body and what it can perform. Characterised by hybridity, flux and syncretism, their practice engages with oral histories, ancestral epistemologies and the re-presentation of (auto)biographies, particularly among the contexts of island Southeast Asia. jee graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Performance Practice on scholarship. They are currently a member of the inaugural artistic cohort at the Rose Choreographic School, Sadler’s Wells, London. They live between Singapore and Berlin.

Sarah Aiken’s solo and collaborative projects explore assemblage, authorship, scale, and the self—probing the roles of performer, audience, subject, and object to frame performance as a space for empathy and exchange. Her choreographic works include Make Your Life Count, Demake/Demaster, Piece (for pieces), and SARAH AIKEN (Tools for Personal Expansion), shown across Australia and internationally. Her video work has featured at MCA Sydney, Gertrude Street Projection Festival, and HIAP Helsinki. Currently, she is developing Body Corp, an assembled choreography of video, image, and object that explores the body as a shifting, multi-species ecology—blurring human and non-human, form and time.

Sun Phitthaya Phaefuang, born in Thailand and raised in Norway, studied dance at KHIO in Oslo before relocating to Asia, where he initiated projects across Singapore, Taiwan, and Japan. A key figure in Thailand’s vogue and ballroom scene, he has walked balls across Asia and Europe and was part of the Houses of Amazon and Labeija. Deeply engaged with LGBTQ subculture and gender performance, Phaefuang blends ballroom aesthetics with Buddhist philosophy. Since 2015, he has researched the intersections of dance, queerness, and spirituality, and after a period of monkhood in 2020, continues to integrate dharma into his artistic practice.