Alumni Events

Transparent Boundary

August 07, 2026 - August 09, 2026

• Location:
• Taiwan

• Tags:
• Performance
• Yen Tzu Chang

Transparent Boundary is a 35-minute immersive contemporary music and new media installation performance that explores the ecological phenomenon of bird "window strikes". By constructing a sensory experimental space utilizing sound, wind flow, and kinetic installations, the audience is invited to move freely through the venue, following bird songs and traversing the gap between the visible and the invisible.

Driven by a live collaborative performance featuring percussionist Yen-Hsuan Wu and Guzheng musician Hsin Fang, interwoven with electronic sound and installations, Transparent Boundary translates the birds' encounter with invisible barriers into a metaphor for the human psyche. Through exploring this "invisible trauma," the work seeks to cross species boundaries and find a shared resonance within our collective vulnerability.

Photo credit: Shephotoerd  - Luo Mu-Hsin

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Borderless Habitat: Ecology and Art in Shared Practice

July 30, 2026

• Location:
• Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York

• Tags:
• Talk & Exhibition
• Chiaochi Chou

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Taipei Cultural Center in New York, the Taiwan-US Arts and Culture Talk Series will host its fourth event on Thursday evening, July 30. Titled "Borderless Habitat: Ecology and Art in Shared Practice," the talk features a dialogue between Taiwanese artist Chiaochi Chou and American ecologist Maria Uriarte, a professor at Columbia University. The two speakers will share how they collaborate to reveal the invisible ecological processes within forests, opening up new possibilities for contemporary artistic practice.

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Tiger Hands

July 29, 2026 - July 31, 2026

• Location:
• New York

• Tags:
• Performance
• Benjamin Akio KIMITCH

As part of Lincoln Center's new Dance Encounters series, choreographer Benjamin Akio Kimitch presents a cosmic, sunrise-colored performance inspired by Peking opera. 

Photo by Erin Baiano 

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Venice Biennale Danza, Italy

July 26, 2026 - July 31, 2026

• Location:
• Italy

• Tags:
• Performance
• Molissa Fenley

One of the pioneers of American postmodern dance, Molissa Fenley has created On Tenderness for the sixteen young dancers of Biennale College, with music performed live by drummer Denardo Coleman, son of the legendary Ornette Coleman, and texts by Hérica Valladares, a scholar of classical Greek and Latin culture.

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Tiger Hands

July 25, 2026

• Location:
• Becket

• Tags:
• Performance
• Benjamin Akio KIMITCH

Jacob’s Pillow welcomes Brooklyn-based artist and producer Benjamin Akio Kimitch for his Pillow debut with Tiger Hands. 

Photo by Erin Baiano

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Buddha the Betrayer

July 12, 2026

• Location:
• New York

• Tags:
• Film Screening
• Ning Qian

A spiritual medium awoke to find his cherished Buddha gone one day, and he is forced to grapple with faith, betrayal, and his vulnerability. 

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Ink: Neo Lanna Dance

July 12, 2026

• Location:
• Thailand

• Tags:
• Performance
• Ronnarong Khampha

The project explores the concept of “Neo Lanna,” a new expression of Lanna identity that remains rooted in cultural heritage while connecting with audiences in the present day.
 

Photo by Alala Dance Fest

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Hyper Samgyetang

July 04, 2026 - July 12, 2026

• Location:
• South Korea

• Tags:
• Performance
• Chatori Shimizu

Faction is pleased to present its selected project of International Project Open Call 2026, Chatori Shimizu’s “Hyper Samgyetang” from July 4 to 12. 

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Jin Xing performs in Anton Checkov’s The Cherry Orchard

July 03, 2026 - July 05, 2026

• Location:
• Paris

• Tags:
• Theater
• Jin Xing (ACC 1988)

Paris, May 2026 – She is one of the most singular figures on the global artistic scene. Former colonel in the Chinese army, ACC alumni from the 1988 cohort, pioneer of contemporary dance in China, media personality with a massive following, the first person in her country to undergo gender reassignment surgery, Jin Xing takes the stage at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées this July to play Ranevskaya in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Three exceptional performances. In Paris, where she lives today.
 

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Medina Triennial

June 06, 2026 - September 07, 2026

• Location:
• New York

• Tags:
• Exhibition
• Aki Inomata

ACC alumna, Aki Inomata, will be exhibiting work at the Medina Triennial, a new contemporary art triennial—rooted in place, shaped by community, resonant with global ideas, and free for all.

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The Spirits of Maritime Crossing 2026

May 09, 2026 - August 02, 2026

• Location:
• Italy

• Tags:
• Installation
• Le Hien Minh

Le Hien Minh is presenting two works, Me So Horny (2025) and Blessed Lady of the Nail (2024), in the exhibition The Spirits of Maritime Crossing 2026, a Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition is showing at the historic Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù, a 14th-century Venetian Gothic and Baroque palace in Venice. Curated by Prof. Dr. Apinan Poshyananda, the exhibition brings together 20 artists from Southeast Asia, Serbia, and Ireland. The hum in minor keys of the voiceless from distant places is brought to Venice, inviting viewers to slow down, breathe deeply, and encounter these crossings through film, performance, sound, painting, and installation.

Photo credit: Bangkok Art Biennale

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WE Are Becoming

May 08, 2026 - August 16, 2026

• Location:
• Taiwan

• Tags:
• Exhibition
• Jau-lan Guo

Centered on the concept of “Becoming”, the curatorial team moves away from the pursuit of fixed cultural identities and instead explores a state of ongoing formation—one that is fluid, intertwined, and continuously reconstructed through art.

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