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Residency
Broiler Residency at Oracle Egg in LA from October 4 with a public performance on October 10 (8pm).
Earthly Beings in Dreams is a performance of sounding, poetry, movement, and set design, to be site-specifically explored and story-told. Drawing on the artist's inner conversations that she continues after her spending times with her old and new friends and workshop-giving across oceans and lands, she writes poems. She breathes with the sunset, the moon, water and trees. "As I see the sunset, kind sunset, I realize that I am sunset itself, the sunset that is shared by all of us." We are always interconnected with other beings. Continuing conversations and listening into herself allow her to realize or change--we learn, evolve, understand, and heal in relations.
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Collaborative performance
Collaborative performance with Bonnie Han Jones and Jenny Gräf Sheppard at Elastic Arts in Chicago on October 22 2026
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Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association
Solo performance upon Yoko Ono’s Instructions for Improvising Across Art and Media (Lightening talk with Amy Skjerseth, Brigid Cohen, Shelina Brown, Julia Bryan-Wilson) at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association in Chicago, in response to Yoko Ono's art works (October 24, 1:45 to 3:15pm, Palmer House, Floor: 3, Marshfield).
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Performance
Solo performance Breath in this world at Elastic Arts in Chicago for Asian Improv Arts Midwest on October 24 2026
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Solo performance Breath in this World using spoken words, sung voice and body for Return the Gift Sound Series at TAC in Oakland on September 10 2026, sharing the evening with Henna Chou and Matt Robidoux.
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Collaborative performance
Koto Koto… Kara(da)Kara
Vocalization and Dance — On Words, Voice, and the Body
Duo performance project with dancer Oguri at ARCANE space in LA on August 21 2026 at 7:30pm (324 Sunset Avenue Unit G Venice CA 90291).
Aine Nakamura - photography by Moe Staiano
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Collaborative performance
Performance with Wilson Shook and Georgia E. Bell for The Unwrinkled Ear at Human Resources in LA on August 19 2026. For reservation, please see here.
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Performance
New solo performance work for Unfolding Grounds and Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside on August 16 2026. For reservation, please see here.
Title: "generous soup"
In July this summer, I had the opportunity to give a workshop in a village near Beijing, in which all the participants were women. Inspired by this experience, I draw on conversations and times I have had with women and transgender friends. I have come to know, as I learn about myself through art and experiences, that I have weakness. Knowing about such has been an important step to develop my art, working from grounding and everyday lives. My times and conversations with my friends and new friends, and my wishes to my friends have given me chances to know about my inner shape, its changes, and growth, and to know my intention.
I will use movement, sung voice, and a few spoken words for this new work, commissioned by Unfolding Grounds.