Penny Yiou Peng
Penny Yiou Peng (oxi peng) is an interdisciplinary writer and artistic practitioner based in Berlin with roots in Beijing. Her practices involve embodied writing, eco-sensing dramaturgy, and interweaving performance research.
As an artistic researcher, Penny has published peer-reviewed articles focusing on the entanglements of Daoist cosmology, critical posthumanism, queer ecology, myths, science fiction, and ritualistic practices in pre-modern Eastern and Western societies. Her researches are developed based on both critical scientific paradigms and Southeastern Asian traditions of animism, myth, and embodied practices such as Qi Gong and interspecies communication. Penny’s recently completed doctoral research examines the touch, transformation, and interweaving processes of various sentient beings and material energies during performative happenings. She attempts to integrate Karen Barad’s notion of posthumanist performativity into performance studies to create a performance analysis from a less anthropocentric perspective, encompassing plants, microbes, cyborgs, monsters, aliens, and entities that are otherwise undefinable.
As a writer and dramaturg (sometimes under her alias “oxi peng”), Penny has collaborated with the Chinese theatre group Papertiger on “500 meters: Kafka, Great Wall, Unreal World (2017-2019),” premiered at the 2017 Theater der Welt theatre festival; “Trance (2021—ongoing),” premiered at the Kampnagel in Hamburg with artist Tianzhuo CHEN; “Here, a nut falls twice (2022—now),” premiered at the ICA in London with artist Yen Chun LIN, among others. She writes for the Artists duo Crosslucid, Ocula China; Spike art magazine; aqnb, CTM Magazine, Ars & electronica; so-far online; Journal of Body, Space, Technology; Performance research; Stedelijk Studies, among others.
More info: https://www.yioupennypeng.com/
