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.

What does it mean to eat a poem? Through poetry writing and eating, sugar papers and palettes, Vienna-based artists Yela An, Ting-Jung Chen and Miae Son ask how writers “transform feelings into words” and subsequently into confectionery. This performance invites Los Angeles poets alongside workshop participants, including literary and performance academics, to contribute texts centering on traditional poetic forms and structures found throughout Asia. Each of the poems will be inscribed with the four seasons, a critical element in poetry genres from Asia, and transposed into writing. Artist-produced sugar boards and ink serve as props to the literary workshop and performance, which will subsequently be consumed as an act of nourishment and pleasure-practice.

1:1:2 unfolds in three parts over three nights, featuring one poet/artist per night: through writing, reading, and digesting. This oratory and oral activity enacted within the Schindler House transforms the modernist house with Japanese associations into a staging ground for an exploration on the history of sweetness, consumption, and migration that spans continents.

YELA AN (ARTIST)

Yela An (b. 1987 in Seoul, Republic of Korea) has been creating artwork concerning the mass media’s former images of women and how they reflect the current state of gender (in)equality. Her interest lies in analyzing the present representation of Asian women within Asia as they fulfill an external stereotype supported by the occidental gaze. She is the recipient of the Artstart scholarship from Academy of Fine Art Vienna, the 2nd prize of the young photographers from Photon Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana, amongst many others. She partook in artist residency programs at Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor in Bremen, Germany, as well as at Kunstraum St. Virgil in Salzburg, Austria. Her works are selected for the permanent collection in Kupferstichkabinnet, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as in the Ministry of the Arts Culture, the Civil Service and Sport in Austria.

TING-JUNG CHEN (ARTIST)

Ting-Jung Chen’s (b. 1985 in Taipei, Taiwan) art praxis, which relates to historiography and cultural political semiotics, focuses on collective memories, appropriation, and processes of empowerment. By reproducing artifacts of the culture industry, representations of ideology, and their relationship to human beings, the artist explores transformations of identity and draws the overlapping culture mingling into a spatial atlas. She is the recipient of the DAAD Artist Program 2023, MAK-Schindlers-Scholarship 2019, and the Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2018. Her works have been shown in various venues internationally, including Belvedere 21erHaus, Vienna; Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna); Kunsthaus Hamburg; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Digital Arts Center, Taipei; 18 Street Art Center, Santa Monica, USA among many others. She is presenting her solo exhibition at the Taipei Fine Art Museum in August.

MIAE SON (ARTIST)

Miae Son (b. Seoul, South Korea) is based in Vienna. Since 2009 she has lived in Germany and Austria focusing on performative video and installation. The artist extracts precise moments of her everyday life as a migrant in Europe, which reflects the complexity of structural issues, that the artist deals with in her work. She studied sculpture in Seoul and Video installation in Bremen and Vienna. She has been awarded numerous grants and prizes, including START-Scholarship of the Federal Ministry for Culture(AT), Short Film Award of the FrauenFilmTage, ArtStart_Studio Scholarship. Her work has recently been presented in group, solo exhibition and at film festivals, such as Bildraum01, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Charim Gallery, Diagonale Graz, Kassel DokFest, Kunsthalle Bremen.

LEONA CHEN (POET)

Leona Chen is the author of Book of Cord, her debut poetry collection exploring the loss of Taiwanese identity through colonization and emigration. Her poems explore histories both recognized and erased, becoming her own protest, journey of self-discovery, and rallying cry for the Taiwanese American community. She is the firstborn of parents raised under martial law in Taiwan, and the great-granddaughter of the aboriginal Ketagalan tribe’s last standing chief.

MEILING CHENG (POET)

Meiling Cheng (b. 1960 in Taipei, Taiwan) is an award-winning poet and essayist, having published numerous poems, short stories, personal essays, and art criticism articles in English and Chinese. The nexus of Dr. Cheng’s research is interdisciplinary performance and live art studies, an area of expertise she cultivated by integrating a strong visual art orientation to her doctoral training in contemporary and avant-garde theatres. She is professor of dramatic arts in theatre critical studies in the USC School of Dramatic Arts and is the author of In Other Los Angelesses: Multicentric Performance Art and Beijing Xingwei: Contemporary Performance: Theatricality Across Genres. She has curated, directed, and performed in live art events in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Tainan.

JESSICA KIM (POET)

Jessica Kim (she/her) is a Korean-American high school junior and poet who has lived in Korea, Singapore, and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. She identifies as visually-impaired and advocates for the disabled community. Recently, she has been named the 2021-22 Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate and runner-up for the 2022 United States National Youth Poet Laureate. She is the author of L(EYE)GHT, runner-up for the Animal Heart Press’ Chapbook Contest, which has been published in April 2022. 

What does it mean to eat a poem? Through poetry writing and eating, sugar papers and palettes, Vienna-based artists Yela An, Ting-Jung Chen and Miae Son ask how writers “transform feelings into words” and subsequently into confectionery. This performance invites Los Angeles poets alongside workshop participants, including literary and performance academics, to contribute texts centering on traditional poetic forms and structures found throughout Asia. Each of the poems will be inscribed with the four seasons, a critical element in poetry genres from Asia, and transposed into writing. Artist-produced sugar boards and ink serve as props to the literary workshop and performance, which will subsequently be consumed as an act of nourishment and pleasure-practice.

1:1:2 unfolds in three parts over three nights, featuring one poet/artist per night: through writing, reading, and digesting. This oratory and oral activity enacted within the Schindler House transforms the modernist house with Japanese associations into a staging ground for an exploration on the history of sweetness, consumption, and migration that spans continents.

YELA AN (ARTIST)

Yela An (b. 1987 in Seoul, Republic of Korea) has been creating artwork concerning the mass media’s former images of women and how they reflect the current state of gender (in)equality. Her interest lies in analyzing the present representation of Asian women within Asia as they fulfill an external stereotype supported by the occidental gaze. She is the recipient of the Artstart scholarship from Academy of Fine Art Vienna, the 2nd prize of the young photographers from Photon Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana, amongst many others. She partook in artist residency programs at Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor in Bremen, Germany, as well as at Kunstraum St. Virgil in Salzburg, Austria. Her works are selected for the permanent collection in Kupferstichkabinnet, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as in the Ministry of the Arts Culture, the Civil Service and Sport in Austria.

TING-JUNG CHEN (ARTIST)

Ting-Jung Chen’s (b. 1985 in Taipei, Taiwan) art praxis, which relates to historiography and cultural political semiotics, focuses on collective memories, appropriation, and processes of empowerment. By reproducing artifacts of the culture industry, representations of ideology, and their relationship to human beings, the artist explores transformations of identity and draws the overlapping culture mingling into a spatial atlas. She is the recipient of the DAAD Artist Program 2023, MAK-Schindlers-Scholarship 2019, and the Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2018. Her works have been shown in various venues internationally, including Belvedere 21erHaus, Vienna; Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna); Kunsthaus Hamburg; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Digital Arts Center, Taipei; 18 Street Art Center, Santa Monica, USA among many others. She is presenting her solo exhibition at the Taipei Fine Art Museum in August.

MIAE SON (ARTIST)

Miae Son (b. Seoul, South Korea) is based in Vienna. Since 2009 she has lived in Germany and Austria focusing on performative video and installation. The artist extracts precise moments of her everyday life as a migrant in Europe, which reflects the complexity of structural issues, that the artist deals with in her work. She studied sculpture in Seoul and Video installation in Bremen and Vienna. She has been awarded numerous grants and prizes, including START-Scholarship of the Federal Ministry for Culture(AT), Short Film Award of the FrauenFilmTage, ArtStart_Studio Scholarship. Her work has recently been presented in group, solo exhibition and at film festivals, such as Bildraum01, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Charim Gallery, Diagonale Graz, Kassel DokFest, Kunsthalle Bremen.

LEONA CHEN (POET)

Leona Chen is the author of Book of Cord, her debut poetry collection exploring the loss of Taiwanese identity through colonization and emigration. Her poems explore histories both recognized and erased, becoming her own protest, journey of self-discovery, and rallying cry for the Taiwanese American community. She is the firstborn of parents raised under martial law in Taiwan, and the great-granddaughter of the aboriginal Ketagalan tribe’s last standing chief.

MEILING CHENG (POET)

Meiling Cheng (b. 1960 in Taipei, Taiwan) is an award-winning poet and essayist, having published numerous poems, short stories, personal essays, and art criticism articles in English and Chinese. The nexus of Dr. Cheng’s research is interdisciplinary performance and live art studies, an area of expertise she cultivated by integrating a strong visual art orientation to her doctoral training in contemporary and avant-garde theatres. She is professor of dramatic arts in theatre critical studies in the USC School of Dramatic Arts and is the author of In Other Los Angelesses: Multicentric Performance Art and Beijing Xingwei: Contemporary Performance: Theatricality Across Genres. She has curated, directed, and performed in live art events in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Tainan.

JESSICA KIM (POET)

Jessica Kim (she/her) is a Korean-American high school junior and poet who has lived in Korea, Singapore, and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. She identifies as visually-impaired and advocates for the disabled community. Recently, she has been named the 2021-22 Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate and runner-up for the 2022 United States National Youth Poet Laureate. She is the author of L(EYE)GHT, runner-up for the Animal Heart Press’ Chapbook Contest, which has been published in April 2022. 

What does it mean to eat a poem? Through poetry writing and eating, sugar papers and palettes, Vienna-based artists Yela An, Ting-Jung Chen and Miae Son ask how writers “transform feelings into words” and subsequently into confectionery. This performance invites Los Angeles poets alongside workshop participants, including literary and performance academics, to contribute texts centering on traditional poetic forms and structures found throughout Asia. Each of the poems will be inscribed with the four seasons, a critical element in poetry genres from Asia, and transposed into writing. Artist-produced sugar boards and ink serve as props to the literary workshop and performance, which will subsequently be consumed as an act of nourishment and pleasure-practice.

1:1:2 unfolds in three parts over three nights, featuring one poet/artist per night: through writing, reading, and digesting. This oratory and oral activity enacted within the Schindler House transforms the modernist house with Japanese associations into a staging ground for an exploration on the history of sweetness, consumption, and migration that spans continents.

YELA AN (ARTIST)

Yela An (b. 1987 in Seoul, Republic of Korea) has been creating artwork concerning the mass media’s former images of women and how they reflect the current state of gender (in)equality. Her interest lies in analyzing the present representation of Asian women within Asia as they fulfill an external stereotype supported by the occidental gaze. She is the recipient of the Artstart scholarship from Academy of Fine Art Vienna, the 2nd prize of the young photographers from Photon Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana, amongst many others. She partook in artist residency programs at Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor in Bremen, Germany, as well as at Kunstraum St. Virgil in Salzburg, Austria. Her works are selected for the permanent collection in Kupferstichkabinnet, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as in the Ministry of the Arts Culture, the Civil Service and Sport in Austria.

TING-JUNG CHEN (ARTIST)

Ting-Jung Chen’s (b. 1985 in Taipei, Taiwan) art praxis, which relates to historiography and cultural political semiotics, focuses on collective memories, appropriation, and processes of empowerment. By reproducing artifacts of the culture industry, representations of ideology, and their relationship to human beings, the artist explores transformations of identity and draws the overlapping culture mingling into a spatial atlas. She is the recipient of the DAAD Artist Program 2023, MAK-Schindlers-Scholarship 2019, and the Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2018. Her works have been shown in various venues internationally, including Belvedere 21erHaus, Vienna; Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna); Kunsthaus Hamburg; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Digital Arts Center, Taipei; 18 Street Art Center, Santa Monica, USA among many others. She is presenting her solo exhibition at the Taipei Fine Art Museum in August.

MIAE SON (ARTIST)

Miae Son (b. Seoul, South Korea) is based in Vienna. Since 2009 she has lived in Germany and Austria focusing on performative video and installation. The artist extracts precise moments of her everyday life as a migrant in Europe, which reflects the complexity of structural issues, that the artist deals with in her work. She studied sculpture in Seoul and Video installation in Bremen and Vienna. She has been awarded numerous grants and prizes, including START-Scholarship of the Federal Ministry for Culture(AT), Short Film Award of the FrauenFilmTage, ArtStart_Studio Scholarship. Her work has recently been presented in group, solo exhibition and at film festivals, such as Bildraum01, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Charim Gallery, Diagonale Graz, Kassel DokFest, Kunsthalle Bremen.

LEONA CHEN (POET)

Leona Chen is the author of Book of Cord, her debut poetry collection exploring the loss of Taiwanese identity through colonization and emigration. Her poems explore histories both recognized and erased, becoming her own protest, journey of self-discovery, and rallying cry for the Taiwanese American community. She is the firstborn of parents raised under martial law in Taiwan, and the great-granddaughter of the aboriginal Ketagalan tribe’s last standing chief.

MEILING CHENG (POET)

Meiling Cheng (b. 1960 in Taipei, Taiwan) is an award-winning poet and essayist, having published numerous poems, short stories, personal essays, and art criticism articles in English and Chinese. The nexus of Dr. Cheng’s research is interdisciplinary performance and live art studies, an area of expertise she cultivated by integrating a strong visual art orientation to her doctoral training in contemporary and avant-garde theatres. She is professor of dramatic arts in theatre critical studies in the USC School of Dramatic Arts and is the author of In Other Los Angelesses: Multicentric Performance Art and Beijing Xingwei: Contemporary Performance: Theatricality Across Genres. She has curated, directed, and performed in live art events in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Tainan.

JESSICA KIM (POET)

Jessica Kim (she/her) is a Korean-American high school junior and poet who has lived in Korea, Singapore, and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. She identifies as visually-impaired and advocates for the disabled community. Recently, she has been named the 2021-22 Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate and runner-up for the 2022 United States National Youth Poet Laureate. She is the author of L(EYE)GHT, runner-up for the Animal Heart Press’ Chapbook Contest, which has been published in April 2022.