HOOI-YING ASH ZHANG 张海莹

COLLECTIVE LONELINESSWhat does it mean to connect? Who are we in the context of others? An ongoing research into what community is and can look like in a time where we are more removed from each other than ever, as Western individualism has become the norm.








Intimate Liminal Space


Type:     Performance
          Poem
          Collective Painting

Location: Buitenplaats Briennoord

Year:    2024

In this second iteration of ‘When You’re Strange’, Hooi-Ying further extends on collective creation to create a more community-oriented mindset.


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What Else Is There? Symbioscene...


Type:     Collective Performance
          Audio

Location: Buitenplaats Briennoord

Year:     2024

“The educational program failed us, we felt frustrated, there was no space for this feeling so we created it” - Hooi-Ying. A collective performance to flip authority roles and question them.


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When You’re Strange


Type:     Performance
          Poem

Location: Booijmans op Zuid

Year:     2023

Through spoken word, collective poetry reading and dance, Hooi-Ying explores their need for connection and community, by calling on a nonlinear, nonconventional perspective on love and intimacy.


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