Work
2022
Spiral Mandala Ceremony: An immersive audiovisual installation at New York's Japan Society reimagining the music of Yu Kuwabara and the ensemble of chanting monks Shomyo No Kai. Audiences were plunged into darkness, experienced the audio program in surround sound. After 20. minutes, a thin screen of vapor began to fall from the ceiling, revealing fragments of the score, buddhist mandalas, and archival concert footage of the monks performing in Japan. 55 min.
Spiral Mandala Ceremony
2021
Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble
The Sprezzaturameron Book I: The Apologia
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Two struggling artists at the turn of the Just Era decide to build their own artist residency, cloning themselves into AI assistants, and learn that maintaining an artist's legacy is about as close to parenting as they'd like to be. Streamed from May 17-31 at Baryshnikov Arts Center.
ADVANCED BEGINNER GROUP: PRIMER FOR AN IMPOSSIBLE CONVERSATION Collaboration with David Neumann / Marcella Murray
MCA CHICAGO / UW MADISON
Sound and Video, Digital Direction
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2020
ZOOMER WELLNESS EXPERTS FIX OLD ARTIST`
May 2020
I've wanted to work on this piece since I read the Tsurezuregusa of Kenko, also known as Essays in Idleness in college in 2001. These free writings by a monk in the 1330s have always felt important to me as a description of an evolving Japan from the perspective of an individual who clings to older ways of being, who has the privilege to describe the world around them while others have to work to survive. Written in the years leading up to the Muromachi period--a 250 year span where most of the artistic and aesthetic notions we now think of as "Japanese" are developed, nationalized, and adopted by the mainstream --this book becomes an indispensable reference for the evolution of Japanese aesthetics, and is required reading in most Japanese high schools./
“ESSAYS IN IDLENESS” IS A REIMAGINING OF THE ‘TSUREZUREGUSA’, A CLASSIC 14TH-CENTURY TEXT BY ZEN MONK AND POET YOSHIDA KENKO WHO WROTE 243 SHORT ENTRIES ON THE AESTHETIC BEAUTY OF NATURE, SOCIAL RULES, ZEN BUDDHISM, AND THE CONCEPT OF IMPERMANENCE. Never intending for his writing to be published, it was compiled posthumously into what became a classic of Japanese literature. In this adaptation, I examine 88 objects from my home and the desktop of my computer, folding Kenko’s world into my own.
See the piece and all the others in the series on the Onassis website, curated this week by Brian Rogers of The Chocolate Factory. Enter
January 2020
I Guest Curate! Tei Blow + Laurel Atwell : Entry March 15, 2019
ROYAL OSIRIS KARAOKE ENSEMBLE at American Realness in January 2019 LINK HERE
WOW **I'm A Baryshnikov Arts Center Cage-Cunningham Fellow and in The New York Times
Sound/Video Design Excerpts
**Sound designs and music for Sibyl Kempson / 7 Daughters of Eve Twelve Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens with John Gasper and Keenan Hurley **Sound design for Martha Graham Dance Company "I used to love you"** Choreography by Annie-B Parson, with music performances by me, KID MILLIONS (Man Forever, Oneida, People of the North) and ZACK LEHRHOFF (Ex Models, Soft Encounters, Seconds, Beach Creeps) Score for **Amanda Loulaki** *house of winds: a process for Untitled 2* at Gibney Dance Score for **Big Dance Theater** *17c* BAM / WORLD TOUR ** Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble at Guggenheim Museum!**
** A Dream Play** at Harvard/TDM directed by Daniel Kramer
From the archive: A collection of radio personalities re-performing an excerpt I clipped from the Colin McEnroe Show for Big Dance Theater's "Man in A Case" adapted from Anton Chekhov. Presented by Hartford Stage Company 2013, toured for infinity years.
Big Dance Theater: This Page Left Intentionally Blank at MASS MoCA and Menil Museum, Houston