Otay:onii (Lane Shi) is a multifaceted artist originally from Haining, China, currently based in Berlin. Her artistic practice spans across music, performance, installation, and film composition. Otay’s work has received recognition and accolades, including the bronze prize for “Best Female Vocalist” from Global Music Awards, and “Best Sound” from the Audiovisual Arts Industrial Incubator Awards. Performance pieces like “Unwrap!” at the Ming Contemporary Art Museum exemplifies her innovative concept of “bio instruments.” Through performances at Harvard University and prestigious festivals like SXSW and Roadburn Festival, CTM, Fusion, Creepy Teepy, LGW, Fekete Zaj, Full of Lava and so on. Otay:onii now has joined the Opera performance “Sancta” by artist Florentina Holzinger, and selected roaster of artists at SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and audiovisual art for year 2024-25. She thrives to navigate experience-driven discussions, from humor to the poignant realities of third-world immigrants, sharing the rooted eastern perspectives to the western world in an attempt to bridge the divides.
Her acclaimed albums, including “NAG” (2018), “MíngMíng 冥冥” (2021), and “Dream Hacker” (2023), defy conventional structures and put emphasizes on philosophies extracted from living experiences, with her upcoming release “True Faith Ain’t Blind” poised to challenge established norms between classical and metal with acoustic piano and voice. “solving a puzzle with another puzzle that can’t be seen, be touched, but to feel.”
Otay:onii is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
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