Public Presentation | Choreography Residency Montreal

Through the collaboration of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Goethe-Institut Montreal and fabrik Potsdam – Internationales Zentrum für Tanz und Bewegungskunst, artists Olivia Hyunsin Kim and Melmun Bajarchuu have received a residency in the studios of Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique. This residency will allow them to develop further their artistic relationship and explore new avenues of creative collaboration. In counterpart, Québec artists Angélique Amyot and Gabrielle Bélanger were welcomed at the fabrik Potsdam – Internationales Zentrum für Tanz und Bewegungskunst in 2021-2022.

Hyunsin and Melmun share a common interest in resistant practices from minoritized positions.
They take postcolonial and postmigrant perspectives and would like to exchange with local artists from different disciplines working on similar topics around power critique, intersectional struggles and queer feminist issues during the residency in Montréal.

Olivia Hyunsin Kim
Olivia Hyunsin Kim is an artist based in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Seoul. She

has been awarded the first place of the art prize “Amadeu Antonio Preis” in 2019. She graduated from the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen and from the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Her choreographic approach involves an  intersectional, queer feminist and post-colonial view. Her works have been shown in Germany, South Korea, Mexico and England.

Melmun Bajarchuu
Melmun Bajarchuu works at the intersections of art, theory and politics as a thinker and

discourse partner, and takes on a variety of roles within collaborative artistic processes, such as critical companion, curator and production manager. She is driven by a desire for a variety of artistic forms of expression as well as to question existing structures and their accompanying power relationships and mechanisms for exclusion. She has a special interest in the interweaving of theories and practices within the context of poststructuralist, post- and decolonial as well as queer feminist perspectives. She is actively involved in the “Initiative für Solidarität am Theater” (Initiative for Solidarity in Theater) and “produktionsbande – network performing arts producers” for intersectional approaches and better working conditions in the performing arts. Since 2020, she has been working as a peer-to-peer consultant in the field of anti-discrimination at the Performing Arts Program Berlin (PAP).