Lian Loke is a multi-disciplinary artist, working across dance, durational and site-specific performance installation, costume, interactive digital media and mechatronics. Her practice questions the role of the body in contemporary society, and how our notions of self are open to transformation through inter-cultural, inter-species and inter-media relations and rituals. Her performance works are physical explorations of different ideas and images of the body and self, informed by her 15 years of training in the Japanese Bodyweather dance methodology with de Quincey Co and earlier somatic-infused dance performance with American choreographer and teacher Annetta Luce.

Her new passion is learning Contact Improvisation. She is adept in performative modes of improvisation, inhabitation, ritual and spectacle. Her working processes are often bottom-up, generating actions, meanings and new movement languages from interactions with props and costume. Her approach to costuming the body in performance explores costume as sculpture and environment, opening the sensuous space between the body and cloth.