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ISEA &
FOCUS QUÉBEC 2025

Myriam Bleau & Nien Tzu Weng

Second Self

Friday, May 23 — 5:10pm to 6:20pm

Seoul Arts Center
Jayu Theater

Second Self

Montréal based digital artist and performer Myriam Bleau teams up with dancer, choreographer and lighting designer Nien-Tzu Weng for a brand new performance. Inspired by both artists’ fascination with the spaces between physical reality and virtual, imagined worlds, ‘Second Self’, explores the multiple possibilities of the touchscreen: as an extension of ourselves, an instrument, a mirror, and a portal to the virtual world. Through movement, sound, and video, the performance explores the object of the screen as a tactile interface, prosthesis, mask, and mirror. Using different scenes, the artists explore the symbol of the mirror, social dynamics, and the myth of Narcissus and Echo. While specular and auditory reflections (echoes) multiply as in a mirror palace, a strange ritual unfolds, the performers becoming, in turn, reflections of the other, infra-human creatures, twins, shadows, or machines.

Myriam Bleau & Nien Tzu Weng

Myriam Bleau is a composer, digital artist and performer based in Montréal. Using music and sound as a point of departure, she creates audiovisual performances, video works, installations and interactive interfaces that articulate sound, light and movement. Her work is mainly channeled through performance, embracing ephemeral and elusive contexts. From code and machine learning to physical computing and devices, she considers technology as another agency that co-creates the output. Her hybrid practice explores porous spaces between the physical and the virtual world, between the natural and the synthetic. Her work has been recognized and presented internationally for over 10 years, in festivals and events such as Prix Ars Electronica (AT), Sónar (ES, HK), Transmediale (DE), Sonic Arts Award (IT), Elektra (CA), Mutek (MX, CA, JP, AR), ISEA (CA, KR), ACT (KR), L.E.V et LABoral (ES), Scopitone (FR), Café Oto (UK).



Nien-Tzu Weng is a Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary dance artist and lighting designer based in Montreal. She builds bridges between disciplines, pursuing an experimental approach to contemporary performance, and a laboratory based approach to lighting design. As both choreographer and lighting designer, Weng is curious about the relationship between movement and new media practices, and plays with the balance between reality and fantasy. Her projects have been shared in Node Digital Festival (Frankfurt, DE), Biennale Némo (Paris, FR), Ars Electronica (Linz, AUT), Les Percéides (Percé, QC), SummerWorks (Toronto, ON), 1-act SHIFT Theatre (Vancouver, BC) as well as OFFTA Festival, Elektra, Akousma, Tangente Danse, La chapelle, and MAI Theatre in Montreal. She co-created the collective: Double Fantasy and is currently a member of LePARC (Milieux), one of the supported emerging artists with CCOV, as well as a resident artist at Topological Media Lab, where she develops her research on presence and interactivity

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