Moyang 先祖 & Seaman 渔師
Curated by Tianzhuo Chen
By Tianzhuo Chen & Siko Setyanto & Nova Ruth & Kadapat
Le Guess Who? 2025 guest curator Tianzhuo Chen brings a multidisciplinary, multi-layered performance to the festival that weaves together threads of planetary storytelling, ritual presence, and memory unbound by borders or timelines, inviting reflection on profound connections that transcend time. The visual artist, and director of Moyang 先祖 & Seaman 漁師, crafts a minimal yet strikingly powerful setting, in which choreographer & dancer Siko Setyanto leads the audience through ancestral invocation and dance improvisation. Chen’s use of simplicity and stillness contrasts with the intensity of his music collaborators: in Moyang 先祖 & Seaman 漁師, Setyanto is joined by singer, musician and activist Nova Ruth and the uncompromising and intense duo Kadapat, they together score the performance with idiosyncratic resonances that transform into unexpected, but unique sound developments.
