Winnie Superhova & Nien-Tzu Weng, VIVA! 2023
Photo: Paul Litherland
Winnie Superhova, Untitled, 2016.
Photo: Kinga Michalska
Nien-Tzu Weng, She's late // A circus Show, 2023.
Photo: Manouschka Larouche

Winnie Ho (Superhova) is an interdisciplinary dance performance artist and curator who was born in Hong Kong and currently resides in Montreal. Weaving various materials onto her body and exploring the vast spectrum of queer eroticism have been at the forefront of her dance making practice. Presently, she is working with topics such as pleasure, play and boredom as both a personal ceremonial practice and as a public performance. Winnie was the recipient of the 2022 Powerhouse Prize at La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse in Montreal. She was also the recipient of the 2017 Danceweb Scholarship Program at Impulstanz Festival (Vienna, Austria). Her passion for working in experimental and DIY structures has lead her to create immersive installations and performances in Montreal at Articule Gallery and La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, as well as internationally at Ponderosa Festival (Stolzenhagan, Germany), Spring Board Summer Series (Calgary), MIX Festival (New York), and Out There Festival (Portugal).

Nien-Tzu Weng is a Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary dance artist and lighting designer based in Montreal. She focuses on presence and interactivity, and aims to build bridges between disciplines, pursuing an experimental approach to contemporary performance and a laboratory-based approach to lighting design. Nien-Tzu is curious about the relationship between movement and new media practices, and plays with the balance between reality and fantasy. She uses light and multimedia to play with perspective, perceiving performance as a process of transmitting dialogues between inner and outer space, where presence and image builds multiple, overlapping conceptions of time.

Her performance journey has been shared at the Node Digital Festival (Frankfurt, Germany), Biennale Némo (Paris), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), SummerWorks (Toronto), as well as at OFFTA Festival, Elektra, Akousma, Tangente Danse, La chapelle, and at the MAI Theatre (Montreal). Weng is one of the recipients of the danceWeb Scholarship (Austria), the OFFTA Hybridity Award, the Contemporary Dance prize, the Undergraduate Research Award, and the James Saya Award at Concordia University.

VIVA! Art Action
13–16.09.2023
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