The Love of the Things ✦︎
(live performance documentation) 9:37, feb 2026, Almaty, Kazakhstan
This activation investigates bodily experience under conditions of neutrality, drawing on somatic practices and movement research. While performers appear in conventionally gendered visual codes: an oversized tie on him and an oversized floor-length bridal veil on her — the performance presents gender as a choreographed form rather than a fixed identity. Through what appears as a non-binary pair, refusal of heteronormative structures is symbolized.
In the final act, the idea of fluidity extends beyond gender and the human-centered perspective. The performance concludes in silence with a mundane action: dismantling a DJ setup. Performed as if the objects — cables, USB driver, headphones and amplifiers — were alive and capable of sound, this act animates the non-human, proposing an expanded field of coexistence decentralizing human experience as ultimate, and gently shifts love away from human-to-human relations toward human–object coexistence.
ŞU ŞAŞU—the association and series of events dedicated to sonic arts, light and performance.
performers: Anna Kin and Arys Assem
venue: Kerege.ca