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Otay:onii (Lane Shi) (CHN)

Otay:onii (Lane Shi) (CHN)

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Otay:onii (Lane Shi) is a multifaceted artist originally from Haining, China. Her artistic practice spans across music, performance, installation, and film composition.
Otay:onii (Lane Shi) is a multifaceted artist originally from Haining, China. 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 artist by Shape+ platform for innovative music and audiovisual art for year 2024-25. She navigates experience-driven discussions, from humor to the poignant realities of 0 generation immigrants up-tp-date, sharing the rooted eastern perspectives to the western world in an attempt to bridge the divides.

Her acclaimed albums, including "NAG" (2018), "MíngMíng" (2021), and "Dream Hacker" (2023), defy conventional structures and put emphasizes on philosophies extracted from living experiences, her new 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."