Mica's site-specific performance practices involve the intense focus on space as a source to evoke imageries, actions, and mental states, often using minimalistic gestures and materials to compose a situation where she explores the viewer's role as an active participator. She is interested in the dream, Unconscious/subconscious, the notion of 'nothingness', 'real' versus 'unreal', alongside her constant research on different spaces such as public space, institutional space, nature, and how human actions and perceptions relate accordingly.
Mica was born in 1994 in Xiamen, China. She has background studies in Animation and contemporary Jewellery. She graduated cum laude from the Fine arts department in GRA in 2021, with her graduation works selected as part of the Rietveld Review(ed). After graduation, she participates actively in the art field as a performance artist in Amsterdam and various cities in the Netherlands.
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Exhibitions/Performances:
2022 - “To Be Continued ”, Durational Performance, Eight Cubic Meters, Amsterdam
2022 - “Syllogismos:3 ”, Performance, “If you catch my chrysalis”, Galerie Ernst, Amsterdam
2022 - “Syllogismos:2 ”, Performance, “MELK/WATER”, Frank Taal Galerie, Rotterdam
2022 - “Syllogismos:1 ”, Performance, “Koen Kloosterhuis – Spaghetti Rain”, P/////AKT, Amsterdam
2022 - “ndsm-03”, performance video documentation, “Rolling Snowball 15”, ARS LONGA contemporary Art Museum, Djúpivogur, Iceland
2022 - “Performance Practice Corrosia”, Performance video documentation, “Expo for 1 day”, Corrosia, Almere
2022 - “≤7500m”, On-going Performance, Land Art Flevoland (Polderland Garden of Love and Fire), Almere
2022 - “ndsm-03”, “Storm”, performance video documentation, “Rolling Snowball 14”, Xiamen Poweriong Art Center, Xiamen, China
2022 - "Orange Hot Glue Gun", performance, "Soro-sorO 2", W139, Amsterdam
2022 - “Knock Knock”, sound installation(collaboration), group exhibition “Pressing Private Buttons”, Boo2 Project Space, Amsterdam
2021 - "Stairs and String", performance, "Destillaat #23", Extrapool, Nijmegen
2021 - “message20210824230652345002748697749”, On-going Performance, “Nicklas Cage forgot the Lyrics, Now Everyone is Singing The Song”, Subbacultcha Space, Amsterdam
2021 - “Fulica Atra”, Performance, Best of Graduates 2021, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
2021 - “…from…to…”, “…from…to…(2)”, Performances, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show, Amsterdam
2021 - “I love psychiatrists, an awkward reimagination of the current dominant social structures”, Performance with Lingyun Cao, Peru, Amsterdam
2021 - “Inter-space-ing”, ongoing event, Stichting M4gastatelier, Amsterdam
2020 - performer in “Everywhere: a Polyphonic Network” by Nadh Lingyun Cao, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show, Amsterdam
2019 - Performer in “Carpet or Curtain?” by Chenny Ye, China Europe Artistic Center, Xiamen
2019 - Performance for Jan Hanlo Essayprijs and Designer for the Jan Hanlo Essay Prijs trophy, De Balie, Amsterdam
2019 - “□□□□□”,ongoing event, Group Exhibition “Fried Tears”, Butcher’s Tears, Amsterdam
2018 - “Gerrit suits you! ”, group performances, Paradiso, Amsterdam
2018 - Cross Pollination Project, Group Exhibition, the UNCUT exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Education:
2019 - 2021 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Fine Arts Department
2017 - 2019 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Jewellery Department
2012 - 2016 Communication University of China, Animation Department
Residencies:
2022 May-June: AM Residency, Almere, Netherlands.
2022 April-May: NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland.