Multimedia Artist
Intermedia Theatre for Flesh, Electronics, and Moving Image
<Noema || Noes!s>
Artwork by Prathmesh Viveki
Director & Video Designer*: Chen Shuhe Yue
Composer: Tianyu Zou
Choreographer: & Dancers: Iris Sewell & Rachel Heinkel & William Pettigrew
Instrumentalist & Dancer: Samantha Kochis
*Video created with generative AI assistance.
To become visible is also to become subject to the perception of others. Our sense of who we are is shaped by our own experience of the world, while continually encountering the ways others see, interpret, and define us.
Noema || Noes!s draws on two ideas from phenomenology. Noesis refers to the intentional activity of consciousness, while noema refers to the way something appears or is experienced through that activity. These concepts frame a central tension in the work: we experience ourselves from within, yet we also become aware of how we appear in the eyes of others. The two perspectives shape one another, but never fully coincide.
Visibility can make individuality more apparent, but it can also expose a person to projection, judgment, distortion, and reduction. As differences become visible, they may become part of how we understand ourselves, while also becoming the basis on which others assign meanings, expectations, or assumptions.
Noema || Noes!s asks what it means to become oneself when identity can never take shape entirely on our own terms. The work does not seek a definitive or complete self, but sees becoming as a continuous process—shaped by our own experiences, our encounters with others, recognition and acknowledgment, and our responses to and resistance against external definitions.
September 2026. The Chain Theater, New York
Sound Object & Physical Theater
<Beneath Skin>
Beneath skin lie different selves.
They are expected, categorized, defined, and bound.
They struggle, they resist, they escape.
They are ever-changing, shaped by different desires.
Which one is the real me? Or perhaps each of them is?
May, 2025. The DiMenna Center, New York
Sound Installation
<Karma Boxes>
By Chen Shuhe Yue & Angela Tse
Hell
Death
New York 2024
"As civilization progresses, the Earth is dying unnoticed, crying out in a faint voice while displaying life and trauma. Every step humanity is taking now heralds the inevitable consequences that await. The installation comprises seven boxes, each representing a theme. Five boxes correspond to the five Chinese elements: Metal (Heaven), Fire (Hell), Earth (Death), Wood (De-forest), and Water (Melting). The other two boxes represent Yin (Negative) and Yang (Positive); Yin symbolizes destruction, while Yang signifies redemption. Audiences are invited to enter these seven spaces to experience each theme."
Heaven
(De)Forest
Melting
Redeem
Sound Installations & Environmental Opera
< Peeling out the Hush Roar >
《 剥出的嘘声 》
By Chen Shuhe Yue & Noshvia(Xuwei) Wu
Sound Installation Section: An inflatable pool, adorned with floating bottles, creates a water chime effect. Wine glasses of varied types collide, producing diverse pitches, forming an enchanting wine glass chime. An iron frame suspends an assortment of sound materials, making different timbres. On the ground, 25 luminous glass bottles, each containing distinct sound materials and rotating motors.
Interactive part: Audiences are encouraged to write or draw on paper, placing their creations inside the bottles before tossing them into the pool. Throughout the performance, the soprano randomly selects these floating bottles, improvising with the notes' contents.
Environmental Installation & Improvisation
《立日三景》
< Three Pictures under Lights >
2023.10 Zhujiajiao Shanghai
Installation Performance - 3 mins excerpt
Multi-media Music Theater
< Running Out >
2023 New York
"Running Out" is a multimedia music theater work, segmented into four principal sections, each echoing one of the quintessential elements: Water, Wood, Fire, Metal, and Sand, themed around the concept of time. The complete version includes installations, videos, and live performances. This collaboration work involves musicians, actors, and choreographers.
— Water / Wood / Metal & Sand
“Water” Video version
Guitar by Eduardo Munoz & Luis McDougal
<Between Walls >
Installation with Yang Qin, Electronics, and Projection
In January 2022, a video drew attention to the trafficking and abuse of women in China. In the video, a woman is chained around her neck, locked in a closed room, with her teeth missing and mentally disturbed, while she is the mother of eight children. There is much evidence to prove she was abducted and sold to Xuzhou 20 years ago, but for unknown reasons, the case died along with the arrest of some of the rescuers. There are tens of thousands and more women like her who have been trafficked to this region from all over the country. But the area's remoteness and the local community's solidarity make rescue very difficult.
The idea of this work was to call attention to the problem of women trafficking. Between the walls we cannot see, there is a large group of people suffering. They long for someone outside to break the walls that imprison them. The more attention we give, the more chances to save them from hell.
< TYPE >
TYPE is a sound installation with a simple pre-set wireless keyboard and a portable speaker. The pre-set keys are related to a programming MAX patch with many sound samples. Some of those samples are connected with each other so that they can show a complete sound story when people put in a certain phrase. (eg. “The world has abandoned me“) And also people can explore more sound stories of their own by triggering those words. The numbers are set with pitches in pentatonic mode. It’s easy to get beautiful melodies in any order. The directions are greeting voice samples, set for actively interacting with passers-by.
07/2022 in Avignon, France
TYPE Setting Description
