News
International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong)

I am happy to contribute to the September 2023 issue of Critique in the Front Line by IATC Hong Kong.

Event 
Performance 

In collaboration with visual artist Keiko Miyamori, I will perform upon the exhibition Me, The Timeless Self - within the Umwelt by Keiko Miyamori at mhPROJECT ノコギリ二 in Ichinomiya, Aichi prefecture, Japan, on August 5 & 6. (link to the mhPROJECT webpage.)
link to the performance instagram live on Aug 5 (mhPROJECT).
link to the performance instagram live on Aug 6 (Keiko Miyamori).

Event
Workshop at Meiji University

2023年7月22日及び23日、29日及び30日、明治大学駿河台キャンパスにてワークショップ「空間と動く身体と心と声」の講師を務めます。 助成：Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley 協力：Raices Teatro 主催：明治大学政治経済学部身体表現芸術研究会

Event 
Lecture 

I will give a talk at Tokyo College of Music kindly invited by composer Toshio Hosokawa on July 18, and at Meiji University by Professor Hiroko Kariya on July 21.

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talks

Upon the occasion of Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Sibiu, Romania, I am invited to talk at The Search for Wonder and the Discovery of Theatre Creative Research in Contemporary Performing Arts at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu on June 23-24 (link to the webpage), and at Cultural Conversations of Sibiu Performing Arts Market, being interviewed by Teresa Brayshaw and Lisa Kendall on June 28, 2023.

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Residency

During my summer residency in Japan, I engage in (1) artistic research of my maternal family's house, and silk and silkworms in Hachiouji for my continuing work about silk, families, weaving, war and peace, (2) the study of costumes and bodies in conversations with Keiko Ohno and Etsuko Ohno in Yokohama, and (3) workshop creating and offering about voice, body, words, translations, and authorship of bodies, in collaboration with Hiroko Kariya at Meiji University in Tokyo. I will also attend events at Sibiu International Theatre Festival invited by Octavian Saiu. The residency is generously supported by the Center for Japanese Studies of UC Berkeley. I am thankful for the conversations with Keiko Ohno, Etsuko Ohno, artist Keiko Miyamori, curator Mayumi Hayashi, architect and emeritus professor Kazuaki Seki, Seiichi Osada of Hachiouji Osada Yosan (silkworm business), professor of archeology and historical ecology Junko Habu, composer Toshio Hosokawa, musician Kyoko Kawamura, artist Cathy van Eck, and more.

Collaborative Performance
Temescal Arts Center

I will collaborate with Adrian Montufar for our investigation of voice, sound and body. By embracing the body as a site of intuition, we enact practices of collective care, listening and sounding with and beyond the body.

with Jacob Felix Heule, Wilson Shook, Matt Ingalls, Kevin Corcoran, and Foot SOS

Collaborative Show
Cicada

I will collaborate with visual artist Olivia Ting to premiere our audiovisual performance work outdoors at CNMAT on May 7 at 8pm. We have each shared our stories about our respective physical experiences through hearing aids, surgeries and recovery, through memories, bodies, and how these experiences and shapes may become myths and dreams. The stories will unfold spatially and audiovisually through projections on membranes, movement performance, and spatialized voice embodied and reimagined in an outdoor performance.

We will collaborate on this poetic exploration of renewal and acceptance of change in the courtyard garden in CNMAT. 

sound development: Luke Dzwonczyk 
special thanks to Jeremy Wagner

*Water field recordings and model training conducted by Maar and Gabriel Vigliensoni. Sounds of water and rocks were captured in Cala Llucalcari, Mallorca, in 2022.