Rin Peisert is a conceptual and performance artist whose work disorganizes the relationship between performer and audience, favoring unscripted interactions that challenge societal norms and reconfigure connections to objects, spaces, and behaviors. With a background in visual art, butoh, and theater, her practice rejects representational modes in favor of direct engagement, often breaking the fourth wall to examine the reciprocal gaze between artist and audience.
Her approach avoids traditional performance contexts by operating in public and pedestrian spaces—street corners, tunnels, rooftops, and markets—where the work interrogates its own role within everyday environments. These site-responsive performances frequently involve sound, improvisation, and spontaneous collaboration, prioritizing process over outcome and dismantling conventional hierarchies between artist, viewer, and place.
Rin is the creator and director of Relative Intensity Noise, a durational performance series that situates multiple artists in shared spaces, generating unpredictable interactions and emergent dynamics. Her projects have been presented in institutions such as the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Power Station of Art Shanghai, Defibrillator Gallery, and The Momentary, as well as bomb shelters and basements.
Rather than prescribing specific interpretations, Rin’s work allows for multiple contextual readings, relying on the chance engagement of audience interaction to determine its evolving significance. Her work emphasizes the relational and contingent nature of performance, situating meaning as a reciprocal process shaped by the conditions of its presentation.
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