Co-Weaving Polyphony
Co-Weaving is a choreographic investigation of polyphonic story-making that focuses on the process of weaving the voices of multiplicity rather than crafting a single, heroic, linear storytelling of one.
As part of a two-week residency in Berlin, choreographer and artistic researcher Yeong Ran Suh together with collaborators Sang-eun Yoon and Eon-jin Jeong from Seoul aim to develop methodologies and tools for communal gatherings and collective knowledge-making as forms of performance. They will share the Co-Future Weaving workshop (in progress), merging poetic creative practices with cognitive social change tools, with local participants in Berlin. Later, the workshop will be shared with various communities, such as fading village communities (Rice, Ritual, Spirits), as an artistic intervention.
BACKGROUND
Co-weaving began as a choreographic practice that cultivates collective modes of storymaking and worldmaking, and has been shared through performances and workshops. Since 2022, choreographer Yeong Ran has been inviting parent-artists and artists who resonate with care issues and share a need to develop collective practice. A group of artists, Suna Lee, Sunghee Wei, Seolae Lee, Sangeun Yoon, and Eonjin Jeon, have contributed to the project. The Co-weaving workshop series has raised issues of the care crisis, reproductive labor, and mothering within the Korean context and created a space for parent-artists and participants from the cultural field to share thoughts & emotions through sound, movement & wordplay, readings, and writings.
Yeong Ran Suh’s artistic practice unfolds through two interrelated strands. Rice, Ritual, Spirits is an ongoing research project dedicated to remembering and learning from the traditional rice-farming villages whose intertwined culture and ecology were erased in the wake of colonisation and mechanisation. In parallel, Co-weaving is a choreographic practice that develops collective modes of storymaking, knowledge-making, and world-making in response to the crises of climate and care, as those issues can’t be solved by one but by the collective intelligence of many, and also to empower the collaborative power of the public. In this practice where these two strands constantly interact, Ran draws on socialist feminist perspectives, such as social mothering, the politics of gathering, and collaboration as counteractive to colonial and neoliberal mantras.
Co-Future Weaving Workshop
Co-weaving is a choreographic practice that cultivates collective modes of story-making and world-making raising issues of care crisis, reproductive labor, and mothering.
Recognising that we are interdependent beings, in need of social mothering and communities to give and receive support and that freelance artists’ invisible labor and precarious work situations are occasionally excluded from social security, we invite parent-artists and artists who resonate with these issues, are in need of reciprocal care, and are searching for change.The Co-weaving group poses the following questions:
How can we find or even create communities in the ruins of neoliberal individualization? What kinds of communities do we already have?
What do we want to give and receive within these communities?
How to seek common visions within a community, and what challenges us?
How can we practice social mothering in our daily lives, in our neighbourhoods, in our communities?
These questions are inseparable from broader ecological crises, where the erosion of care infrastructures is entangled with the degradation of the environments we depend on. Across Seoul and Berlin, the workshop explores how these intersecting crises manifest in distinct urban and cultural contexts, and what can be learned through their intersection.
Merging poetic creative practices with cognitive social change workshops, we will explore questions, share tools, and learn from each other. We hope that this temporal gathering inspires participants to envision desirable communities, practices in your social settings, or even discover a new ally/kinship/neighbour.
Date: 24th, May 2026, Sunday, 10:00~15:00
Location: Xberg Remise at Manteuffelstraße
Yeong Ran Suh
Sangeun Yoon
Eonjin Jeong
Yeong Ran Suh
Sangeun Yoon
Eonjin Jeong
Artists in Residence
Yeong Ran Suh is a choreographer, performance reviewer, dramaturgical partner, and artistic researcher in Copenhagen and Seoul. She is a co-founder of ‘Becoming Species’, a climate activism performance group, and ‘Nubim’, a community-based art association. Her current artistic research focuses on non-secular, more-than-human relationality in animist village rituals seeking artistic intervention through Co-Future Weaving workshops.
Sang-eun Yoon is a choreographer, dancer, and performance reviewer based in Seoul. Drawing on her classical ballet background, she has critically reexamined classical ballet and theater aesthetics and explored ballet for everybody. She is a founder of <Femi Floor>, a feminist performing arts group, a consultant in the gender-equal performing arts milieu, and previous editor of MOMM dance magazine.
Eon-jin Jeong is a designer and performing artist based in Seoul. She has collaborated on various projects, including dance, music, and fine art, in South Korea, Germany, France, Portugal, and Japan. After becoming a mom, she explores how art, mothering, and daily life can be merged amid the current care crisis, in search of individual self-transformation and social transition.
Co-Weaving is part of the IN CONNECTION, an artist exchange residency connecting Denmark-based and European performing artists through collaborations between HAUT and its partner organisations. The residency creates space for critical exchange and artistic practice between visiting artists and local support networks across Copenhagen, Berlin, and Brussels. This residency is curated in collaboration with Madhumita Nandi, Oyoun and Alex Blum, HAUT emerging from the fall open call 2025. The residency takes place over two weeks at 90mil and includes a community workshop at Xberg Remise.
