DETOURED REHABILITATION 归去来兮辞 Julia Dèng Hànzú and her London friends

DETOURED REHABILITATION 归去来兮辞

Julia Dèng Hànzú and her London friends

Lineup (in playing order)

Subphonics

Julia & Zhuyang

Oūyā

DJ Yuna

Julia Dèng Hànzú (b. Chongqing, China; currently New York, formerly London) is a multimedia artist, experimental musician, and sound therapist who works in a post-disciplinary approach drawing from lived experience, cross-cultural philosophies, and the quiet collisions between inner feelings and outer worlds. Her practice manifests across performances, installations, compositions, visuals, texts, and occasional curatorial projects, with the transformation of intimate emotion into collective resonance as recurring concerns.

Her playing is movement made audible — body, breath, and strings in continuous dialogue — turning each performance into a ritual of presence and connection. Trained on traditional Chinese plucked strings(guzheng, pipa, and ruan) since childhood and expanded into electronics and interactive systems, she folds deconstruction and reconstruction into extended techniques and improvisation—treating sound as both archive and medicine.

After an abrupt departure from London in April and a sustained period of personal rebuilding across the Pacific and the Atlantic, Detoured Habilitation at Folklore marks her brief return, joined by close collaborators and chosen family, to the city that first amplified her voice — now clearer, more embodied, and vibrating on a new frequency, to celebrate reunion, resilience, and the living future of tradition.

After an abrupt departure from London in April and a sustained period of personal rebuilding across the Pacific and the Atlantic, Detoured Habilitation at Folklore marks her brief return.

One night. Joined by close collaborators and chosen family.

A city that first taught her how loud a string can scream.

Now she is back — clearer, more embodied, vibrating on a new frequency — to celebrate reunion and resilience, to complete the resonance,

Zhuyang Liu is a multimedia artist, sound artist, and producer working within delirious fictional rhythms. They weave sound, installation, theatre, text, and new technology into absurd, multi-layered sonic architectures and immersive experiences.

An international award-winning guzheng soloist known for their experimental and free-improvisational practice, Zhuyang also mastered the Xuanqin （geomungo）, recognised as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of China’s ethnic Korean tradition.They continue to carry forward traditional instruments such as the duxianqin (one-string zither ) SanXian, while exploring a broad spectrum of world string instruments including the koto, gayageum etc.

Zhuyang crafts unique instruments and sound systems from both traditional materials and found objects, integrating acoustic and electronic mechanisms to form a distinctive sonic language and aesthetic. Their works guide audiences into layered worlds where sound, installation, instrument, and performance intertwine—humorous, incisive, and hauntingly precise. Described as a kind of “script-writing machine of a collapsing society,” their practice extends the architectural logic of traditional instruments into futuristic and unstable sound environments.

SubPhonics is a London based experimental music and sound art collective focused around improvisation and novel approaches to group sound making. Blending together the varied influences of their members they use improvisation as a method of exploring widely varying subjects. Soothing soundscapes collide with harsh noise and violent rhythmic trances. The group utilise a non hierarchical, open structure to facilitate frequent collaborations and rotations within the ensemble. The goal of the project is to make work that is both experimental in practice, whilst remaining aesthetically enjoyable to a broader audience. (Julia was an active member of SubPhonics from 2023 to 2025.)

Ōuyā is an audiovisual performance trio that re-invigorates the intersection of experimental electronics and traditional instrumental music. A combination of acoustic instrumentation, digital sounds, and gesture-interactive live visuals created an engaging experience displaying a tight relationship between each element of the performance while still allowing for each performer to shine individually - instrumentalist Julia Deng Hanzu, electronic musician Yewen Jin, visual artist Sunni.

YUNA阿尘 is a London-based sound artist, singer-producer, and DJ whose work traces the blurry edges between reality and the digital fog.

多多duoduo(is shine) is a Chinese girl audiovisual duo formed in 2025 by artists YUNA阿尘 and Tongktongktong. Based in London, their practice explores consciousness, reality, and the human psyche through sound and visuals.

Presented by Folklore Hoxton.

This is an 18+ event