CHOOC LY

Chooc Ly Tan is a multi-disciplinary artist, DJ, music & cultural producer who works across moving images, DJ sets, radio podcasts, event organising, and club nights. With a background in sculpture and performance. Her practice sets out to create new visions of reality by subverting or repurposing systems and tools we use to understand the world around us – such as concepts and methodologies from physics, politics and music. Often, Chooc Ly draws attention to power imbalances, using video and sound as mediums to find an experimental cadence within the personal histories, found footage, and political undertows that inform and inflect the Afro-Asian diaspora, in the face of ongoing colonialism(s). Her recent film commission On The Offbeat (2021) explores those disruptive and productive moments of suspension that surround syncopation, tracing the significance of the offbeat through Vogue Fem, diasporic rhythms, critical theory, and insect behaviour.

Her DJ sets forge astral connections through kaleidoscopic spectrums of club music and futuristic sound – fierce and emotional. She also runs the platform Décalé, a discursive experimental artist’s platform & club night, in collaboration with artist-curators Léïla Arenou and Kadeem Oak.

Past gigs include Chinabot x Radio Flouka (Paris); After-Eight at Radar (Reykjavík); GGI 끼, Body Movements Festival, Howl Queer City IV, Queering Now (all in London); Swallow (Los Angeles), Regenerative Feedback (WORM, Rotterdam); Chalet Wote Festival (Accra, Ghana), and Poekhali! (Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway). Recent music releases include Exaltation Onirique on the Chinabot compilation ‘5’, ‘coeur bioluminescent’ for OUTPUTS sampler1, and remixes on Metronomicon, Lost Map and La Boocle.