Watch our second event in Errant Listening, a workshop, lecture, and collective performance led by Taiwanese artist Yang Yu-Chiao, whose practice operates at the intersection of folklore telling, sound improvisation and poetic writing.
Rooted in narrative and linguistic study, Yang approaches the folktale as a generative structure through which traditional modes of storytelling are reactivated via field recording, embodied vocal practice, and improvised performance. Central to this practice is an engagement with onomatopoeia, informed in part by Gérard Genette’s theory of semantic opacity, in which sound and meaning remain inseparably entangled for those who perform them. Through these sonic-linguistic experiments, Yang creates acoustic territories where domestic sounds wander, disrupt, and reconfigure space, slipping beyond it while unfolding into shared, collective registers of listening and voicing.