Sub/Org Re/Mix, Live performed at IKLECTIK, London.
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Demo mix via here
Performance Documentation via here
Sub/org Re/Mix 2.0 is a video and audio performance that uses Pioneer DDJ1000 together with rekordbox software as the control interface to enable sonic and visual transition in live. Soundtracks selected as part of this work includes recordings of curators' talks in galleries such as white cube, MOMA, and Tate, sourced via YouTube, as well as electronic music including trance, IDM, hard techno, and gabber genres. Opened with a repeated score used as the intro music of White Cube's In the Gallery series 2-3 years ago, the work begins with two curators' discussion of Yves Klein's practice in searching for the meaning of art. With the progression of the mix, the intensity and the speed of the music increase while the quotation of those found curator talks became more and more dominant and "violent" in contrast to the sentiments of making meaning of art internally. The work in this ways questions the maintenance of art production in relation to commercial success, recognition (curator and gallery's position), speed (in terms of making new works), potential exhaustion and competitiveness.
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Upcoming:
BELIEF SYSTEMS, ICA London
2 September
Natural Nudity, Wien
2 - 12 September
Past Duo/Solo;
2026
Front of House/Back of House
Duo, at Piccalilli Gallery, London
2025
Headspace,
Duo, at Seager Gallery, London
2023
Threshold,
Solo Presentation (Degree Show),
Slade School of Fine Arts, London
2019, 2021
Fashion Collections: Pleasure 41; Am, Is, Are
Central Saint Martins & London Fashion Week
Series;
CLAMP (2024 - 2025)
Latex Sculptures (2023-2024)
Time-based/Performance;
Pornotopia (2026 - present)
Sub/Org Re/Mix, 2.0 (2023)
(feat. energy flash) (2023)
Chaney Diao
My practice examines how identity is produced, performed and made legible through space, appearance and social relations. Working across moving image, installation, sculpture, sound, performance and digital media, I explore questions of being, belonging and individual agency as shaped by systems of regulation, projection and perception that often sit beyond one’s control. Informed by lived discomfort, my work moves between public space, subcultural environments, domestic interiors and speculative worlds, often unfolding through aesthetics of pressure, extremity and pain. Drawing on knowledge gleaned from BDSM, rave and club subcultures, as well as DJ mixing, I explore how established structures of power can be disrupted and reconfigured through pleasure, consent and intensity.
In 2025, Chaney was selected as an awardee of the third edition of LOEWE FOUNDATION/Studio Voltaire award. Selected exhibitions and performances include Back of House/Front of House, Piccalilli Gallery, London (2026), FAN の BLOG 迷妹の部屋, Asymmetry Art Foundation, London (2024), How to Destroy Angels (curated by Tai Shani & Anne Duffau), Horse Hospital, London (2024), Acal Festival 3 (curated by Studio/Chapple and SON OF CRAFT), Staffordshire St Gallery, London (2023), if splash has your whistle, IKLECTIK, London, (2023) and Kaugummi im Motherboard, gr_und Gallery, Berlin, (2024).
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