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[vc_row][vc_column][lab_heading title=”Final Space”]By Cloud Eye Control[/lab_heading][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Final Space tells the original story of a young woman, beckoned out of her lucid dream state by a malfunctioning dream sucking machine. Her lucid dreams transform into mouths that start commanding her moves. Her arms and head grow and shrink. The moon unfolds and reveals itself in abstractions and taunts. Through puppetry, optical illusions, performance and video, the story unfolds about a woman who abandons her oppressive technological world, only to land on an inhospitable moon landscape. It is there that she must meditate and use rudimentary flash cards to re-imagine a world that contains warmth, home, friendship, and hope.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]PRESENTATION HISTORY:

Manipulate Festival (Edinburgh)
TBA Festival (Portland)
Duke University
KNOWLEDGES, Mt. Wilson Observatory
Center Stage Theater (Santa Barbara)
REDCAT NOW Festival
Images Festival (Toronto)
San Francisco International Film Festival
Platform International Animation Festival (Portland)

Photos: Eugene Ahn, Scott Groller, Cloud Eye Control[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_single_image image=”3910″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle”][vc_single_image image=”3906″ img_size=”full”][vc_single_image image=”3909″ img_size=”full” alignment=”right” style=”vc_box_circle”][vc_single_image image=”3908″ img_size=”full”][vc_single_image image=”3911″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle”][vc_single_image image=”4049″ img_size=”ful”][/vc_column][/vc_row]

[vc_row][vc_column][lab_heading title=”Because I’m Alway Talking”][/lab_heading][vc_column_text]

Baryshnikov Arts Center, 2011

A staged concert event featuring the music of Eric Lindley, aka Careful. The performance featured live music, choreographed intimate exchanges and audience exploration.  

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[vc_row][vc_column][lab_heading title=”Woyzeck”][/lab_heading][vc_column_text]By Georg Büchner
California Institute of the Arts, 2006

An immersive durational adaptation of Woyzeck exploring the palimpsestic and fragmentary nature of Büchner’s original text. The play, never completed by Büchner, was discovered after his untimely 1837 death. It existed as a collection of drafts and fragments and wasn’t until decades later, after heavy editing by various authors, that the play would be first produced.

This production attempted to conjure the rawness and a-linearity of Büchner’s original text, and by doing so present the audience with a unique immersive theatrical installation to witness Woyzeck’s psychosis and murderous downfall.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”3881″ img_size=”full”][vc_single_image image=”3884″ img_size=”full”][vc_single_image image=”3885″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”3886″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”3887″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_single_image image=”3882″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row]

[vc_row][vc_column][lab_heading title=”Ocean Flight”][/lab_heading][vc_column_text]Highways Performance Space, 2009

Ocean Flight is an allegorical re-imagining of Charles Lindbergh’s revolutionary solo trans- Atlantic flight. His story is re-told as a cyborg meeting of man and media. Referencing the visuality of Hollywood “green-screen” illusion, the live-feed image of Lindbergh is captured via interactive video software and “composited” into real-space via hand-held projection screens.

However, the visuality of the computer graphical user interface (windows, icons, direct manipulation) is also alluded to. The theatricality of integrating human behavior and digital information is critically addressed by showing all stages of the media transformation: camera, performer, and virtual stage. The resulting experience is one where the audience sees both mechanism and illusion, climaxing at Lindbergh’s fleeting metamorphosis into a winged creature.

Direction and video design by Chi-wang Yang. Featuring performance by Mira Kingsley, Darius Manino, & Brian Reid. Animation by Miwa Matreyek. Sound design by Yuen Cheuk Wa. Lighting design by Jeanette Yew.

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[vc_row][vc_column][lab_heading title=”They Are Dying Out”][/lab_heading][vc_column_text]By Peter Handke
California Institute of the Arts, 2013

“It suddenly occurs to me that I am playing something that doesn’t event exist, and that is the difference. That is the despair of it.”

A reimagining of Peter Handke’s 1975 play, The Are Dying Out. Set in the contemporary world of hyper-capitalism, super-tycoon Herman Quitt forms a price-fixing pact with his four biggest competitors to monopolize their industry. He finds himself inexplicably suffering from disturbingly irrational thoughts. As Quitt’s financialized and transactional psyche comes into collision with extreme poetics, the “rational” practices of a capitalist economy brings about a fatal personality crisis.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”3864″ img_size=”full”][vc_single_image image=”3855″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle”][vc_single_image image=”3856″ img_size=”full”][vc_single_image image=”3860″ img_size=”full”][vc_single_image image=”3863″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row]

[vc_row][vc_column][lab_heading title=”The Space Between You and Me”][/lab_heading][vc_column_text]Little High, 2012

A durational performance installation, where Chi-wang Yang and Mira Kingsley stand opposite each other, two arms-lengths apart. A public call was put out for artists to install or stage works using the space in between their two bodies. By reducing staging, theatricality and performance to its essence, The Space Between You and Me explores the transaction of presence in an age of social media hyperselves. In collaboration with Tanya Brodsky, Maya Gingery, John Hogan, Zoe Aja Moore, and Julian Valdivieso.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”3840″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_rounded”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”3841″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_rounded”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”3842″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_circle”][/vc_column][/vc_row]

[vc_row][vc_column][lab_heading title=”Beyond the Horizon”][/lab_heading][vc_column_text]By Eugene O’Neill
California Institute of the Arts, 2007

A bold re-imagining of O’Neill’s first full-length drama about an American farming family coping with the desires of a new generation. The production combined physical intensity, original music, and site specific audio and video to explore the mythology of the American dream.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”3812″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_rounded”][vc_single_image image=”3816″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_rounded”][vc_single_image image=”3817″ img_size=”full”][vc_single_image image=”3821″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”3818″ img_size=”full”][vc_single_image image=”3814″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”3813″ img_size=”full”][vc_single_image image=”3819″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]