Choy Ka Fai
Projects
Volcano Trilogy
2024 – 2027
Altas of the Yellow Magic Era
2024 – 2034
Exodus
2023 – 2024
Sometimes I See The Future
2023 – 2024
CosmicWander
2020 – 2024
Expedition
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Yishun is Burning
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Post Colonial Spirits
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The Third Prince
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Blue Sky Academy
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Lotus Tiger Society
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Unbearable Darkness
2018 – 2020
The Wind That Cuts the Body
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Game Demo
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Everyone can Butoh
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Dance Clinic
2016 – 2018
CaseStudy X Darlane Litaay
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CaseStudy Y Florentina Holzinger
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Dance Neuro Analysis
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Introspective
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SoftMachine
2012 – 2016
Expedition
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SoftMachine: Yuya
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SoftMachine: XiaoKe x ZiHan
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SoftMachine: Surjit
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SoftMachine: Rianto
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SoftMachine: Interview
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Prospectus for a Future Body
2010 – 2012
Eternal Summer Storm
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Bionic Movement Research
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SynchroMetrics
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Notion: Dance Fiction
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Lan Fang Chronicles
2009 – 2015
Lan Fang Museum
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The De Groot Collection
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The Man Who Rode Crocodiles
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Insignificant Landscape
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Reheasal For A Film
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Rhapsody of a Century
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Rectangular Dreams
2008 –
TheatreWorks
2006 – 2009
Revolution-Per-Minute
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Reservoir
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Dance Dance Dance
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V.I.S.T.A LAB
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Drift Net
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Kill Your Television
2002 – 2022
Days of Being Wild
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The P.O.P Station
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Not Available on Print Date
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Design For Death
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Deadline
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Agenda
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Tanzwelten

Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
05 07 2024 0:00
12 07 2024 0:00

Exodus

EastEast, Online
28 06 2024 0:00
15 07 2024 0:00

In Search of The Tragic Spirits

Asakusa Gallery, Tokyo
21 06 2024 0:00
23 06 2024 0:00

Sometimes I See The Future *Premier

Tanzhaus Nrw
09 03 2024 0:00
10 06 2024 0:00

Ten Thousand Suns

Biennale of Sydney
24 02 2024 0:00
18 05 2024 0:00

Life-bestowing cadaverous

CCA Glasgow
02 12 2023 0:00
02 12 2023 0:00

How Shamanism Is Changing Art

Deutsche Welle Documentary
03 11 2023 0:00
04 11 2023 0:00

Yishun Is Burning

Dampfzentrale, Bern
28 10 2023 0:00
28 10 2023 0:00

Sometimes I See The Future *WIP

BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen
20 10 2023 0:00
21 10 2023 0:00

Yishun Is Burning

Trafo Budapest
01 10 2023 0:00
01 10 2023 0:00

Sometimes I See The Future *WIP

RomaEuropa Festival, Rome
29 09 2023 0:00
01 10 2023 0:00

Unbearable Darkness

RomaEuropa Festival, Rome
01 07 2023 0:00
01 07 2023 0:00

Yishun Is Burning

Malta Festival, Poznan
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Biography

Biography

Choy Ka Fai is a Berlin-based Singaporean artist. His multidisciplinary art practice situates itself at the intersection of dance, media art and performance. Through research expeditions, pseudo-scientific experiments and documentary performances, Ka Fai appropriates technologies and narratives to imagine new futures of the human body.  

In 2019, Ka Fai started working on the CosmicWander series exploring shamanic dance culture in Asia. CosmicWander produced a collection of performances, exhibitions and VR works. It premiered in 2021 with a solo exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum, followed by a VR experience “Blue Sky Academy” at Tanzhas nrw dussendolf. In Berlin, the performances of “Postcolonial Spirits” premiered at Tanz Im August Festival in 2021 and “Yishun Is Burning” was presented at Tanzplattform Deutschland in 2022.

Ka Fai’s projects have been presented in major institutions worldwide, including Sadler’s Wells (London), ImPulsTanz Festival (Vienna) and Kyoto Experiment (Japan). He was the resident artist at tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf (2017–2019) and Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2014-15). Ka Fai graduated with a M.A. in Design Interaction from the Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom.

Contact
human@ka5.digital
Instagram
27 09 2024 0:00
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Tanzwelten

Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
05 07 2024 0:00
12 07 2024 0:00

Exodus

EastEast, Online
28 06 2024 0:00
15 07 2024 0:00

In Search of The Tragic Spirits

Asakusa Gallery, Tokyo
21 06 2024 0:00
23 06 2024 0:00

Sometimes I See The Future *Premier

Tanzhaus Nrw
09 03 2024 0:00
10 06 2024 0:00

Ten Thousand Suns

Biennale of Sydney
24 02 2024 0:00
18 05 2024 0:00

Life-bestowing cadaverous

CCA Glasgow
02 12 2023 0:00
02 12 2023 0:00

How Shamanism Is Changing Art

Deutsche Welle Documentary
03 11 2023 0:00
04 11 2023 0:00

Yishun Is Burning

Dampfzentrale, Bern
28 10 2023 0:00
28 10 2023 0:00

Sometimes I See The Future *WIP

BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen
20 10 2023 0:00
21 10 2023 0:00

Yishun Is Burning

Trafo Budapest
01 10 2023 0:00
01 10 2023 0:00

Sometimes I See The Future *WIP

RomaEuropa Festival, Rome
29 09 2023 0:00
01 10 2023 0:00

Unbearable Darkness

RomaEuropa Festival, Rome
01 07 2023 0:00
01 07 2023 0:00

Yishun Is Burning

Malta Festival, Poznan