Moe Satt started creating art after graduating from East Yangon University in Myanmar with a degree in Zoology in 2005 and is part of a new generation of emerging Burmese artists. In 2008, he founded and organised Beyond Pressure, an international festival of performance art in Myanmar. As a performance artist, Satt has performed in galleries and on the streets of Yangon. He has been actively participating in live arts festivals in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and on the international stage. Through his travel encounters, Satt sees the differences between performance artists from both open and those from more restricted societies. While contemplating the regional landscape of performance art and the artistic mindset of individual countries in the region, he has developed a greater understanding of his own identity as an artist and as a person.

The idea of Moe Satt’s Hunting & Dancing goes back to 2006 when he started to investigate hand gestures in the primeval human rituals of dances and hunts. The product of his early research was titled Nothing but Fingers. Central to Satt’s exploration was the cultural practices of hunter- gatherer society of Stone Age Africa, particularly their hunt, while he drew upon the performances from his native culture in Myanmar. Satt’s precise hand choreography, created by juxtaposing various hand gestures he found throughout his research, represents a variety of creatures. Hunting & Dancing: 15 Years is a sequel to Hunting & Dancing, a work he had produced one and a half decades earlier. Drawing on decades of his research, Satt continues to explore performative rituals in collaboration with dancer Liah Frank. The performance video explores how our bodies may further connect and blend hunting and dancing gestures.