Lecture Performance: Soft Rehearsal for Fugitive Gathering (2025 - on going)
렉쳐 퍼포먼스: 은신하는 감각들의 모임을 위한 리허설


What if a body becomes invisible not through erasure—but through softness?
What if healing isn’t a return to form, but a rehearsal of dissolution?
In this lecture-performance, choreographer and researcher He Jin Jang draws from her practice-based PhD inquiry to weave together choreographic research, speculative medicine, and trans-sensorial memory. Grounded in the Korean indigenous healing method Eunhyeongbeob (은형법)—the “method of becoming invisible”—Jang explores how we might rehearse new bodily futures amid biopolitical crisis, intergenerational trauma, and state violence. Framing rehearsal as a ritual of resilience, she asks: How can choreography hold what history cannot name?
The performance blends lecture, improvisational movement, sensorial autoethnographic reading, and guided meditation to invite audiences into forms of embodied refusal and quiet resistance. Personal narrative unfolds alongside theoretical constellations from ritual studies (Victor Turner, Richard Schechner), dance and somatics (Susan Leigh Foster, Randy Martin), and decolonial thought (Kuan-Hsing Chen’s Asia as Method), forming a porous landscape of scholarship, memory, and movement.
This is a soft rehearsal space—where invisibility becomes a sensorial strategy for survival, refusal becomes care, and whisper becomes architecture. Both an act of mourning and a proposal for sensuous futures, the work asks us to listen for what lingers before form.
Concept/Performance/Text by He Jin Jang
Sound Design by Namureyoung
Supported by T:Works Artistic Directors Academy
Venue:
2025 ADA Research Day, T:Works, Singapore
2025 Postcritical Spirituality Series, Rasa, Singapore
2025 Arts & Design Practice Research Exchange, NAFA, Singapore
2025 Anthologies Assembly, London South Bank University, UK


