Friday May 19 * 7pm * TICKETS
OTS productions presents "Mi" featuring artists Lucia Li (China), Hideo Sekino (Japan), and Hsiao-Chu Hsia (Taiwan/NYC) --- Artist Lucia Li presents human self-reflective criticism and perception in new media, new materials and body language in this solo performance. She sets up the audience as 'performers' who may judge her actions in the real world together with her different personalities. Whereas, performance artist Hsiao-Chu Hsia & shakuhachi player Hideo Sekino's improvisational pieces combine interactions within the environment and sets a tempo that can lead us to travel far away with their movements. And we are happy to welcome back both Rex Delafkaran and Peter Redgrave for brand new solo performances - it's been too long!
Lucia Li- Visual and sound artist, performance artist. Was born in Xi’an China, graduated from Maryland institute college of art in 2022.@lucee_ia
Hsiao-Chu (Julia) Hsia- An artist from Taiwan now based in New York City, focusing on performance art and improvised movements. She received her master’s degree in Community Arts at Maryland Institute College of Art after a bachelor’s degree in Clinical Psychology. Hsia talks about the theme of relationships, visualizing relationships between people, countries, cultures, and even between humans and nature. She is currently one of the participants in the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program at New York Foundation for the Arts and the one of the resident artists at SÍM Residency in Iceland.@juliahsiartreu
Hideo- Born in Tokyo, Japan. After learning different styles of shakuhachi playing, in 1986 he joined the Komuso Kenkyu-kai (monks of emptiness), a research organization on Komuso monks and their shakuhachi music. He has been performing honkyoku pieces since then in both Japan and the United States. Besides his involvement in the tradition of Komuso music, he has been active in collaboration with performing arts such as Butoh, Flamenco and Noh dances.@rakudoan
Rex Delafkaran is an Iranian-American interdisciplinary artist and dancer from California, currently based in Washington, D.C. "The foundation of my practice is rooted in methods and acts of translation and language. I am playing with materials to discover hybrid forms and functions, abstract languages, and explore narratives of Iranian-American and queer identities, real and invented. Through frameworks of hybridity and simultaneousness, my work translates ideas physically through live performance, multimedia documentation, ceramics, sculpture and dance. When deployed in concert these ideas ask questions and have the possibility to invent new ways of understanding. Tied up in the aesthetics of identities, functional handmade and readymade objects, and the language of dance is a dedication to the notion of failure, and an active impulse to try. I am interested in what languages and materials we have at our disposal to make meaning, where the emotional mythologizes utility and identity, and how we can reconsider the literal and cultural functions of objects and bodies." @rex_delafkaran
Peter Redgrave is a Baltimore based cultural worker. In his solo practice, Redgrave works with movement, musical instruments, and scores. He is currently working on expanding his PROP series, books that hold dances that dancers hold, and letting the power of the fool pass through him. Peter studied at the SAIC and the University of Maryland. He has toured across North America and Europe. Redgrave has taken lessons from Tadashi Endo, Lynne Price, and Donna Oblongata. Since 2017, he has facilitated the Move Move Collaborative. He is a regular participant in the Freedom From Freedom To series in Chicago. Peter performs with Orlando Johnson and Che Davis as Breath of the Magi.
