Image: Tiffany Chung
Jas Lin 林思穎 restages their site-specific performance triptych, Schindler House Haunting, with FITNESSS in a fourth iteration for the West Hollywood Pride Arts Festival. Originally commissioned by homeLA as a part of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture centennial celebration Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making, this reverberation continues to build on R.M. Schindler’s “space architecture”, which shattered notions of useful domestic space partitioning interior and exterior, self and Other. Fear of the ghost is fear of the Other, both inside and outside of oneself– a gaze that turns queer, non-white, femme, wild bodies into ghosts. By embodying a figure of abjection and contradiction, Lin turns boundaries and binaries inside out, making visible the repression and oppression organized under dominant social frameworks. Paced to the duration of the sunset, the haunting moves with the ephemerality between lightness and darkness, contemplating the relationship between architecture, land, and spectral traces. The immersive musical score by FITNESSS is composed of breaths, creaks, and echoes resounding from both Lin’s body and the skeleton of the house.
Music/Sound Design by FITNESSS. Costume Design by aeon. Lighting Design by FITNESSS.
Flash warning: The second part of the performance contains flashing lights.
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JAS LIN 林思穎
jas lin 林思穎 (they/them) is a performance artist, choreographer, and constant (un)becoming born and based on Tongva Land (Los Angeles). lin stages exorcisms and tantrums for purging choreographies of the learned body and shutting down internal and external surveillance cameras that suggest there is a Proper way to move through the world. their practice of deep feeling is invested in re-membering what the body has been manipulated into forgetting. they value performance as a ritual of deep presence — by returning to our senses, we can reawaken to our possibility, connection, and agency within the world around us. lin’s practice emerges from a vast lineage of teachers, from friendships to films to flowers. centering play in the everyday, they experiment with multiplicity and contradiction while dancing with the world as their body.
jas worships the elsewhere and the otherwise, and loves to co-create shared fugitive worlds and live in them. their choreographies, films, workshops, and lectures have been shared around the world, including at Danshallerne Copenhagen, MOCA Los Angeles, Power Station of Art Shanghai, and Mitski’s Laurel Hell Tour. jas is committed to the life-long process of un-learning and un-teaching hierarchical, Othering, and superficial ways of moving, being, sensing, and knowing. they believe movement to be a manifestation and actualization of potentiality — that together, we can dance the possible into being.
FITNESSS
FITNESSS is an artist who defies traditional categorizations. A FITNESSS performance is an expression of raw energy—creating immersive experiences that challenge conceptions of being and communion through movement, electronic sound architecture, and post-modern aesthetics. With an emphasis on audience involvement and collective presence, FITNESSS’ work explores the volatile nature of interpersonal dynamics, as well as the transformative power of crowd synchronization. FITNESSS has interfaced and collaborated with audiences around the world—most recently in Tokyo and southeast Asia.
ABOUT THE WEST HOLLYWOOD PRIDE ARTS FESTIVAL
Pride starts here. For decades, West Hollywood has been home to one of the largest annual Pride celebrations in the world, drawing hundreds of thousands of revelers each June. In 2022, the City of West Hollywood kicked-off its inaugural WeHo Pride, which included various programming from the City and its partners. WeHo Pride 2023 will kick things off on Harvey Milk Day, May 22, with the start of a 40-day WeHo Pride Arts Festival. Then, we’ll lead June Pride month celebrations with WeHo Pride Weekend from Friday, June 2, 2023 through Sunday, June 4, 2023 including a free weekend Street Fair. And don’t forget about our partners’ events such as the music festival OUTLOUD @ WeHo Pride, the annual Dyke March and Women’s Freedom Festival (details to be announced soon), and Sunday’s WeHo Pride Parade.
Supported in part by the 2023 West Hollywood Pride Arts Festival.