Residinsje

Moe Satt

We’re delighted to welcome Moe Satt to Syb for an artistic residency.

Moe Satt (Myanmar, 1983)
He uses his own body as his material, to explore identity, embodiment and political resistance. He belongs to a remarkable generation of Burmese artists who made work through years of government censorship and oppression.
Much of his practice returns to Burmese political history between 1983 and 2015, from the year he was born to the year he began working in performance. His body runs through all of it, and his hand gestures especially, a language without words.
For Satt, the body is the one thing a person can fully own. But bodies also meet, and are read by others. In recent years he’s leaned into that tension, directing other performers and drawing the audience into the work, so the body becomes something both his own and shared, holding histories that are at once personal and collective.