LIN Kaiyu 林楷育
【2022-2024 TAIWAN AND AUSTRALIA CHOREOGRAPHY EXCHANGE PROGRAM】—Taiwan Artists Kai-yu LIN
臺灣當代文化實驗場 X 文化部駐雪梨辦事處 X 澳洲「關鍵路徑」
【臺中國家歌劇院2020「LAB X 青年創作工作室」計畫】—青年藝術家(舞蹈) 林楷育
National Taichung Theater LAB X platform for interdisciplinary arts exchange & development: The Young Artists
階段實驗：科學實驗轉譯肢體的表演性，
以反直覺,抽象原則,反思肢體的動態形式
《開箱：身體現場》—藝術家 林楷育
〈 Uncertainty Principle ｜Lecture Performance〉
【LAB KILL LAB—《科技妄想TECHNOIA》工作站】
空總臺灣當代文化實驗場 C-LAB《TECHNOIA》
Microbe Empathy Performance: Interdisciplinary Dialogue between AS Scientists & Artist _ "Practice of Microbe Empathy — Micro-imagery & Optical Microscopy X Improvisation"
✦ 微生物共情演出 ✦ 本計畫透過媒體介入與跨物種實驗，探討生物在人類文化與權力結構中的「缺席」與「再現」
Microbial Sitcoms: Hacking the Interspecies Interface (2025) feat. Mark Wang. Since the Stone Age, the power dynamics between humans and nonhumans have fluctuated between domestic inclusion and marginalization. Due to their microscopic scale, microorganisms have remained "absent" from human cultural activity. This project initiates a critical experiment: through scientific collaboration, we treat microorganisms as living data to develop a media system encompassing moving images, sculptures, installations, and live performances.
At the core of the installation is a dual-function projection interface: it serves as both a narrative output for the audience and a literal energy source for the photosynthetic microorganisms. This technical intervention blurs the boundary between cultural production and biological metabolism, merging them into a single media ecosystem. Within this "Microscopic Theater," microbes are encoded as sitcom characters to challenge contemporary species ethics through absurd narratives. By critiquing how digital power structures dominate the representation of life, the final microbial essay film invites audiences into an unstable theater to recalibrate our connection with the "miniature Other."
Interspecies Performance — Eco-sonic Symbiosis — An interspecies performance exploring the intersection of biological improvisation, electronic synthesis, and science-based collaboration
✦ 共聲態 ✦ 跨物種演出是一場「主體性」的去中心化實驗，
透過聲音媒介，將植物、真菌、科學物件與人類表演者編織進同一個不穩定的生態網絡
feat. with. 林楷育(科學物件)、關島種彥 (JP)、DSLB (NZ)、vegetable.machine.animal (NZ)、Chang Deng-yaoet.al. et.al.
Symbiophony: Interspecies Sonic Circuits. This project reconfigures the stage as a multi-species laboratory, where sound acts as a sensory interface between divergent biological and technical agents. Moving beyond human-centric performance, Symbiophony facilitates a radical interspecies collaboration. By employing the vegetable.machine.animal (VMA) methodology, living data—biopotentials from plants and fungi—is harvested and transcoded into control voltage. This process allows nonhuman organisms to actively modulate modular synthesizers, effectively granting them agency within the sonic landscape.
The performance operates as a dynamic feedback loop: while human performers (on violin, erhu, and electronics) respond to the shifting biological rhythms, the science objects and plasma experiments introduce stochastic environmental variables. In this trans-species improvisation, vibration becomes the common language through which breath, mycelial activity, and electronic oscillation identify one another. This is not just a concert, but an enactment of a temporary sonic dreamscape—a manifestation of coexistence where sound emerges as a tangible form of interspecies encounter and shared survival.
