Tianzhuo Chen & Siko Setyanto

Tianzhuo Chen & Siko Setyanto

Ocean Cage

Tianzhuo Chen & Siko Setyanto

Ocean Cage

In their latest collaboration, visual artist and director Tianzhuo Chen, and dancer and choreographer Siko Setyanto reflect on life in Lamalera, a remote fishing village on the island of Lembata in Indonesia, where traditional fishing and whaling still plays a central role. An immersive setting created by Tianzhuo Chen, Ocean Cage that combines elements of installation, film, and dance to create the space for the performance, in which Siko Setyanto becomes the central protagonist in changing characters. Together with the Indonesian musicians Kadapat and Dinar Rizkianti (KUNAY), a visual, dance, and musical maelstrom is created in which tradition and ecology, spiritually, and technology, beliefs in progress and interspecies symbiosis are whirled together.

Tianzhuo Chen & Siko Setyanto - Ocean Cage (teaser)
© Takuya Matsumi.

19 SEP 2025
FRI 21:00

20 SEP 2025
SAT 19:00

Buy Tickets
Stage of Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium
18€ (discounts)
Duration 1h40
M/12

BoCA Biennial

BoCa

Direction

Tianzhuo Chen

Choreography and performance

Siko Setyanto

Music

Kadapat, Dinar Rizkianti (KUNAY)

Costumes

Chenting Yu

Mask

Manda Pinky

Make-Up

Una Ryu

Textile design

Diane Esnault

Light design

Akihiko Tanida

Sound design

Martin Ortiz

Technical management

Francisca Marques

Technical production

Paul Mede

Assistance and stage management

Diane Esnault

Executive production

partner in crime

Production

partner in crime and Tianzhuo Chen.

Co-production

HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Arsenic Lausanne, Kyoto Experiment, Kampnagel e tanzhaus NRW

Support

Capital Culture Fund Berlin

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