Stars Hollow is the name of the charming and fictional small town that television show Gilmore Girls deploys in contrast to the generational wealth of Hartford, Connecticut. Suns Hollow is a performative situation by Amsterdam based artist Ivan Cheng that amplifies and focuses on the theatricality of fandom. Departing from the relationship between aspiring writer Rory Gilmore (Magdalena Mitterhofer) and her music fanatic best friend Lane Kim (Cheng), Suns Hollow features tracks by producer Rui Ho. The project continues with Cheng’s interest in the nuance and individuality of subculture and how it is staged, noting the extensive cultural references which define the writing style of Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.

Performed by Magdalena Mitterhofer and Ivan Cheng
featuring ‘Hundred Thousand Ways’ by Rui Ho
Garments: GOOD & BAD (Marina M. Kolushova, Victor Stuhlmann, Ossi Lehtonen)

About Ivan Cheng

Ivan Cheng (b. 1991, Sydney) produces video, objects, paintings and publications as anchors for the staging of complex and precarious spectacles. His background as a performer and musician form the basis for using performance as a critical medium. His work has recently been presented at gta exhibitions (Zurich), CNAC Magasin (Grenoble), Maxxi (Rome), Édouard Montassut (Paris). Confidences/Majority, the latest in a series of vampire books, was published by After 8 Books in 2022. He has initiated the project space bologna.cc in Amsterdam since 2017.

Suns Hollow was presented at Perdu in Amsterdam in 2022, in a double bill with Steven Warwick's 'Neo-Literal'. Both pieces were commissioned as part of the series 'Speaker, Broker, Stringer', curated by Arif Kornweitz.

'Speaker, Broker, Stringer' is kindly supported by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.