Death of Chaos — 21st Century
Social Dis Dance
A ritual born in the twilight of the digital deep—opening the flesh of civilization, summoning the splinters of what comes after. Social Dis Dance leads you into a post-sci-fi realm where chaos dissolves and the body breaks open like a prophecy.
Social Dis Dance uses electronic dance music as its core form, transforming the mysterious power of Taiwan as an island into a sonic symbol. Drawing inspiration from industrial sound and contemporary rave energy, their rhythms are raw and profound, allowing the audience to feel the distortion and fluidity of time and space through waves of sound.
With a distinctive Taiwanese futurist aesthetic, Social Dis Dance creates a performance that exists between a party, a ritual, and an act of resistance—merging poetic electronic sound, intense rhythms, and wild stream-of-consciousness chanting to produce an atmosphere charged with tension, release, and sensory awakening.
At the center of the performance, Betty Apple appears like a shamanic figure from The Matrix, using highly performative whispers and improvisational vocal incantations to explore themes of sexuality, death, climate change, technology, and war. She guides the audience through a labyrinth of sound into an ecstatic trance where body and spirit merge.
This performance stands as an expression of postcolonial futurism, radiating cyborg-queer energy and a radically forward-thinking approach to sound and perception.
Social Dis Dance (Taipei) is a cross-disciplinary experimental sound collective formed in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic by avant-garde sound performance artist Betty Apple, new-media designer Viktor Lin, and interior designer Hoser Huang. Taking its name from the pandemic-era term “social distance”, the group reimagines isolation and connection in the post-pandemic world through sound, body, and technology.
Betty Apple leads with a commanding physical presence, often collaborating with drag performers and dancers to challenge social norms and body politics. Viktor Lin creates real-time dialogues between different senses through musical composition, generative visuals, and lighting installations. Hoser Huang works with wood and metal to expand sound installations into physical space, transforming sound into a tactile choreography of consciousness. Together, they treat sound as a form of liberation—a resonant echo against power structures and the uncertainties of the contemporary future.
Social Dis Dance has performed internationally at Asia Biennial (Taichung), Sonic Shaman, Nuit Blanche Taipei, Melbourne Fringe, FdS Festival (Lausanne), Luxembourg Art Week, and venues across Slovakia, Vienna, and Italy.
