Having trained in post-modern American dance and performed in historical Judson era- and contemporary dances staged in and commissioned by both traditional dance venues and contemporary arts institutions and museums, I am interrogating the cultural hegemony of these contrasting codified languages in my own artmaking. Working from texts whose radical authors interrogate violent coercion and institutional critique, I look to use each residency as an opportunity to research common authorship, ownership, and distribution.
Artist-in-Residence at Center for Performance Research 2022-23
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June 18, 2022: Co-organized with Jesi Cook a performance marathon to benefit Red Canary Song, an organizing collective for Asian & migrant sex workers
Hosted by Tess Dworman. Featuring luciana achugar, Stephanie Acosta, Chia-Lun Chang, Leslie Cuyjet, Francesca D’Uva, Aruni Dharmakirthi, DJ Jen Goma, Sam Kim, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Mina Nishimura, Lai Yi Ohlsen, Anh Vo, Lu Yim. Author Alexander Chee is generously matching the first $444 in tickets with a donation to Red Canary Song
Performance Philosophy Reading Group with Ayano Elson [virtual]
December 6, 2022: 2022 Artist-in-Residence Ayano Elson looks at the writing experiments of the late Bernadette Mayer to discuss ways of translating text into improvisational performance scores.
