CLOUD STATES | Jian Yi | Performance

JTTE Festival Artistic Director Jian Yi follows up their Made in Scotland showcase run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe of their critically acclaimed Weathervanes with Cloud States – a multi-disciplinary performance art and dance piece mapping queer migrant belonging. Working with movement, immersive installation, multimedia and video art, Cloud States will be performed as a multi-sensory installation with live performers at French Street as part of Journey to the East festival 2023. Robbie Thompson (Cryptic Artist) will collaborate on the project, contributing lighting design/special FX and new media audio-visual content that will be incorporated into the live performance.

BIO: Jian Yi is a multidisciplinary artist working in performance art, multimedia, contemporary dance and new genres. Their practice is rooted in an ongoing enquiry into the ambiguities of emotional experience. They seek to explore the experiential trauma of marginalised persons within our society, such as neurodiverse and queer people of colour,…