Roulette: JUNI ONE SET – Boy mother / faceless bloom [in process]
Free (Free (in-person ticket price TBD))
yuniya edi kwon (eddy kwon) — Selected works
Senga Nengudi — Selected works
Haruko Crow Nishimura — Selected works
Joshua Kohl — Selected works
Eddy Kwon, music & movement
Senga Nengudi, movement
Crow Nishimura, music & movement
Joshua Kohl, music
with Leo Mayberry & Ian Lucero, video
A mosaic of autobiography, mythology, and collective inquiries, Boy mother / faceless bloom combines ritual, dance, music, poetry, video, and sculptural installation to explore transformation & transgression, the creativity & conflicts of motherhood, and ancestral lineage in a time of colonialism, imperialism, and planetary crisis.
The piece has been co-created through an intensely collaborative process over the span of three years by Eddy Kwon, Senga Nengudi, and Degenerate Art Ensemble’s Haruko Crow Nishimura and Joshua Kohl. Intuitive play, loving conversations, and a deep sense of trust allowed for the generative convergence of diverse artistic practices, cultural backgrounds, gender experiences, age, ability, and geographies.
In their second Roulette Van Lier Fellowship performance, Eddy Kwon presents this in-progress collaborative work to be premiered in its entirety in 2022.
The livestream will take place at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific.
Attending in person: Proof of vaccination will be required to attend this performance in person. All tickets must be purchased in advance of the performance. No tickets will be available for purchase at the door. Doors will open one hour before the performance. Please arrive at least 20 minutes prior to show time and depart immediately afterward. Everyone entering Roulette must abide by the guidelines outlined here: http://roulette.org/safety
The performance will take place at:
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(Entrance on the Corner of Third Avenue; Accessible Entrance on Atlantic Ave)
Link to donate: https://roulette.secure.force.com/donate/?dfId=a0n3600000I68L9AAJ
About yuniya edi kwon (eddy kwon)
yuniya edi kwon (b. 1989 – also known as eddy kwon) is a violinist, vocalist, poet, and interdisciplinary performance artist based in Lenapehoking, or New York City. Her practice connects composition, improvisation, movement, and ceremony to explore transformation and transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer space and lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. As a composer-performer and improviser, she is inspired by Korean folk timbres and inflections, textures and movement from natural environments, and American experimentalism as shaped by the AACM. Her work as a choreographer and movement artist embodies an expressive release and reclamation of colonialism’s spiritual imprints, connecting to both Japanese Butoh and a lineage of queer trans practitioners of Korean shamanic ritual. In addition to an evolving, interdisciplinary solo practice, she performs and collaborates with artists of diverse disciplines, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Senga Nengudi, Du Yun, Tomeka Reid, International Contemporary Ensemble, Kenneth Tam, Isabel Crespo Pardo, Moor Mother, and Degenerate Art Ensemble. She has performed alongside Roscoe Mitchell, Mary Halvorson, Nicole Mitchell, Cory Smythe, Henry Threadgill, Susan Alcorn, Carla Kihlstedt, Jessika Kenney, Lesley Mok, Satomi Matsuzaki, and others. In 2023, she founded SUN HAN GUILD, a sound and performance collective with composer-improvisers Laura Cocks, Jessie Cox, DoYeon Kim, and Lester St. Louis. She is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Award in Music/Sound, an Arts Fellow at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, a Civitella Ranieri Fellow, a Johnson Fellow at Americans for the Arts, and a United States Artists Ford Fellow.
http://www.eddykwon.net/