Bridging the Mystique
This immersive performance takes place at 7 PM on Sunday, April 27, at the Link Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public. Following the performance, audience members are invited to the second floor gallery to view the LINK exhibition and join the closing reception.
As the closing performance of the LINK group art exhibition, this piece expands the theme of connection between bodies, disciplines, and states of becoming.
This show is not a concert, not a fashion show, not a film screening—but something in between. A staged unraveling. A stitched-together ritual. A space where music, movement, and embodiment open portals to something beyond language.
The performance is layered with film projections of Qi dancing in the same garments now worn by the band, blurring time, body, and memory. Dreamlike visuals dissolve the artist’s form into pulsating colors, textures, and rhythms. Accompanying soundscapes, built from warped recordings of SYTH, create an atmosphere that breathes around the performance.
“We are never just one thing, or even one thousand. We are millions of things, compiled together. We are free when we aren’t fixed. We are free when we become plural.” — Bei Qi
It fuses the live experimental rock of the band SYTH: Xander Georgoulis (vocals), Carlos Peña (guitar), Max Mitchell (bass), and Mark Jennings (drums), with artist Bei Qi’s wearable art, film projections, and soundscape design, transforming the space into a site of ritual, memory, and metamorphosis.
The second song will feature additional guest performers: keyboardist Anastasia Waid and saxophonist Andy Cresciullo.
Lighting design: by Joe Intagliata.
Throughout the show, the band performs original songs and covers while wearing garments from three of Qi’s series: Enneagram: Beings of Light, Passionate Cycles, and Vessels of Protection.
Each collection offers a distinct psychological terrain, using wearable art to explore the body’s capacity to carry longing and personal discovery.
“Can a garment become a vessel for what we struggle to carry? Can music do the same, channeling what cannot be said into a sound that cradles us?” — Bei Qi
Enneagram: Beings of Light explores identity through the lens of the Enneagram personality system. Each performer embodies a different type, revealing both the shadow and light of human behavior, and how we come to know ourselves through our differences.
Passionate Cycles dives into the contradictions of romantic love—its pull, its beauty, and the echoes it leaves behind.
In Vessels of Protection, voluminous garments made from repurposed childhood tents become soft armor. These wearable sculptures distort movement and offer emotional shelter, inviting performers into a liminal space where concealment becomes a form of self-confrontation.
