New Kyd

In RESTLESS: land of nois.e, New Kyd and Shuyue Miao Zhao perform two duets. The starting point for this were their experiences upon arriving in Zurich: they found it fascinating to discover that Switzerland, while rich in opportunities, still has social, political, racial, and economic barriers that create a dizzying sense of displacement and exclusion in them, thereby generating a longing for a collective community. In RESTLESS: land of nois.e, the duo shares an improvised journey through spasms of technology fatigue and visual "post-apologetic" utopias. These utopias are inspired by the following books: Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey, The Black Dancing Body by Brenda Dixon Gottschild, and I Want to Be Ready: Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom by Danielle Goldman. The framework of these writings allows the two artists to communicate through dance and movement, as well as music and sounds.

The 40-minutes intimate performance is woven together by imagined archetypes and a duet that unfolds live in the space and on the canvas. The bodies disappear between projections: visual art that encapsulates farming utopias of the last century. RESTLESS: land of nois.e creates an„structure of feeling" without a climax or a solution. We bear witness to a collective idea from the trans-diasporic perspective of the two artists – determined to mirror the rich complexity of their realities of displacement and their desire for intimacy.