https://kenychan.com Keny Chan Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:05:17 +0000 https://kenychan.com en https://kenychan.com/Bio Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:05:17 +0000 Keny Chan https://kenychan.com/Bio Keny Chan (b. 1997, Sichuan, China) is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, director, and musician working across film, music and media art. Their practice forms an interconnected constellation of songs, moving images, installations, and digital worlds, grounded in research into melancholy and shaped by experiences of migration and queerness. Combining poetic intimacy with eerie, sometimes absurdist worldbuilding, Keny gives bodily and mythic form to personal loss, collective longing, and possibilities that were never fully lived. Drawing from digital nostalgia, algorithmically manufactured desire, and the promise of digital eternity, Keny’s work returns to a central question: how do we cling to, and become transformed by, what we cannot let go of against the irreversible passage of time? Rather than treating melancholy as something to overcome, their practice explores it as a space in which loss, desire, and the possibility of healing coexist. Their art-pop single and self-directed music film Time (2026) opens Gengu, their forthcoming debut album within the transmedia project Elternal World. Combining live action with Keny’s handcrafted CGI, the film transforms longing for an unlived queer teenage love into a dark digital folklore of bodily decay and emulated eternity. Connected web episodes weave the film’s making into its fiction, while elternal.world, an interactive archival artwork, invites audiences into the same universe, where personal loss and unrealised possibilities inhabit a corrupted promise of digital permanence. Earlier music releases and accompanying films, including “Be OK” and “Hourglass” , explore self-sabotage, uncertain identity, healing, and queer love. Their interactive Tamagotchi-inspired work “Life and Death of Hans Maximilian” was exhibited at Ars Electronica in 2023. Collaborative projects include AI/CGI visuals for Anna Ehrenstein’s “Bitches on Their Deen (2024)”, exhibited at Kunstverein Heidelberg and the Maxim Gorki Theater, and video projections for “Meine Sprache heißt Wut (2024)”, commissioned by Ballhaus Prinzenallee, Berlin. https://kenychan.com/Header Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:52:37 +0000 Keny Chan https://kenychan.com/Header