Performance
Echo

I will present a 2-hour durational performance at Echo at Glasshouse in New Paltz, NY on April 15. This will be a deepening of my work Yami and Iro.

Collaborative and solo performances
Center for New Music

I will welcome and collaborate with composer and performer Srayamurtikanti for our first appearance at the Center for New Music on March 24 2023. We will present each of our solo works, and a collaborative work upon this occasion.

I will perform with discarded objects, and a mask. 

  Hundreds of masks that don't know how to cry
  Face of Ogre 
  Tears of Ogre 
  Tears become the mud 
  Ogre and flowers

Composition
Bent Duo

Bent Duo (Bill Solomon, David Friend) will premiere but will always find, its freespace, which I composed for the duo, on April 17 at the APNM Concert at DiMenna Center for Classical Music in NYC.

"It turns out that both the digital space of Grindr and the urban spaces of historically queer neighborhoods are both becoming highly commercialized, perhaps at the expense of a community who can no longer afford, but will always find, its freespace" 

Jonathan Hruska, Dark Room Detours 

eat the rich 

(RAMBLE, 2) 

The work is inspired by the duo's social and musical engagements of listening to spaces and environments and interacting with them, and the zines RAMBLE and BDLA for queer percussion research group; both of which are created by Bent Duo. The duo creates its free-spirited sonic space with everyday used or inexpensive objects, moving with them, the texts, and bodies, walking and playing. The sound and interactions they embody and pose creates and embraces the freespace.

Performance
Musiktheaterabend

I will present my 25-minute performance Yami and Iro at Musiktheaterabend at UdK in Berlin (Probensaal Bundesallee 1-12) on March 2, 2023 at 7pm.

闇 Yami: darkness and to wait for sound.
色 Iro: colors and eros. 

Poet Delmira Agustini (1886-1914) was killed by her ex-husband, with whom she wished a lover relationship instead of marriage. Her poetry focused on sexuality and eros at a time in which men writers were dominant. 

This work is a development of my work Kusottare! in which I focused on ownership of body. After the work, I found myself embracing myself more and wrote a new poem. In Yami and Iro, I combine my two poems, one that holds aching and resistance, and the other kindness and embracing. I perform these waves with calligraphy of my poems.

Performance
Spectrum

I will perform at Spectrum on January 6th at 7pm at 481 Van Brunt St, Door 7A, Brooklyn NY.

This is an archive of the performance. I performed with the things I picked up in a park on the New Year’s Day and my poem that I renew. The items that were discarded on the soil beside trees by people whom I don’t know after they ate ramen or celebrated the New Year’s Eve or drank beers years and years ago became my brushes and my allies, along with stones and a branch. After the performance, some were discarded again, this time in a proper trash can; I even miss them.