Alumni Events

英語能「ペ・ポンギ」 / BAE BONG-GI: An English-Language Noh

October 03, 2026

• Location:
• Japan

• Tags:
• Performance
• Sherwin Yang

Bae Bong-gi was brought to Okinawa from colonial Korea and forced to serve soldiers as a “comfort woman.” She walked day after day all over postwar Okinawa, never feeling settled. She passed away on October 18, 1991 without ever returning home. This October, her spirit will be back to life on the Noh stage as we memorialize the 35th anniversary of her passing. Based on House with a Red Tile Roof by Kawata Fumiko, Bae Bong-gi tells of trauma, pain, and endurance. It meditates on one survivor’s harsh experiences, but also on how all survivors’ unique stories might best be honored. Noh’s blend of austere staging and emotive richness draws the imagination deep into the characters’ inner lives, and is thus a uniquely powerful vehicle for sharing human experience.

Image:  Omura Sadamu

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The Jin Hi Kim Collection

October 01, 2026

• Location:
• Connecticut

• Tags:
• Concert
• Jin Hi Kim

A concert featuring innovative komungo (Korean stringed instrument) virtuoso and Assistant Professor of the Practice in Music Jin Hi Kim performing on the world’s only electric komungo.

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Kinetic roots

September 25, 2026 - September 26, 2026

• Location:
• New York

• Tags:
• Gamin Kang

Where Is Your Real Motherland?

A multidisciplinary performance exploring presence, language, identity, and homeland through sound, movement, and theatrical elements. Inspired by Kiyoung Kim’s Standing There…, the expanded work is directed and conceived by Jinyoung Park, with Kim as composer and Soyeon Huh as co-creator, planning lead, and sound designer. The ensemble includes Nuno Lucas (movement and theatrical elements), gamin (Korean winds), Galen Passen (sitar), and Sunjay Jayaram (violin).

The project will include an experimental documentary video and develop from a New York work-in-progress showcase toward a full production in Korea.

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Maedeup: Weaving Shin Yun-bok

September 24, 2026 - September 27, 2026

• Location:
• New York

• Tags:
• Performance
• Seoul Institute of the Arts
• La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club

A live, non-verbal performance that reimagines Korean classical painting through contemporary performance.

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The Empire's Fuel: Curry, Girls, and the Battlefield's Stomach

September 23, 2026 - October 03, 2026

• Location:
• Japan

• Tags:
• Exhibition
• Chen Ching-Yao

This solo exhibition centers on Taiwanese contemporary artist Chen Ching-YAO's (ACC 2008) new series “War and Food” and takes “The Empire’s Fuel: Curry” as its theme. Britain’s expansion into India intensified in the seventeenth century, and curry became increasingly commercialized in the eighteenth. This history is itself a global history of colonialism, woven from spices and imperial expansion, dispersal and fusion.

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Takenoko Lab - Eat, Listen, Feel / Chatori Shimizu/devon osamu tipp

September 20, 2026

• Location:
• Tokyo

• Tags:
• Performance
• Chatori Shimizu

The Invisible Dog (New York City) and BUoY Arts Center (Tokyo) are thrilled to present a performance by Chatori Shimizu & devon osamu tipp, as part of NAFAS TOKYO.

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Voy!

September 04, 2026 - September 06, 2026

• Location:
• Aomori -City Japan

• Tags:
• Performance
• Val Lee

Taiwan-based director and visual artist Val Lee visited Japan between 2024 and 2026, where Lee conducted fieldwork and interviews with local blind football teams in Hiroshima, Okinawa, and Aomori to produce a new photographic work, “The Sorrowful Football Team.” In collaboration with Garuha Aomori, a blind football team the artist encountered during these visits, Lee presents an ongoing research project on blind football in the form of a participatory performance.

Image  Design by Yang Hsi Hsiao

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The Orchid Pavilion

August 29, 2026 - October 03, 2026

• Location:
• Manila

• Tags:
• Exhibition
• Wawi Navarroza

The Orchid Pavilion, the first of Wawi Navarroza’s trilogy of exhibitions, considers the exchanges and acculturations that accompanied the movement of people and objects through the Philippines before and during the centuries of the Manila Galleon trade. It focuses on the country’s pan-Asian heritage and, more specifically, on the longstanding Chinese presence woven into Filipino culture and identity.

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Brown Madonna - Philippine Premiere

August 15, 2026 - August 16, 2026

• Location:
• Philippines

• Tags:
• Performance
• Ea Torrado

After premiering in Frankfurt in 2025 and returning to Europe this June 2026, Brown Madonna comes home for its Philippine premiere.

Photo by Noi Crew

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Interdisciplinary Arts Lab 2026

August 07, 2026 - August 09, 2026

• Location:
• New York

• Tags:
• Discussion
• Abner Torres Delina Jr.

The Interdisciplinary Arts Lab has historically taken place at Movement Research in New York City (2022-2024), and as the Moving Arts Lab at Earthdance in Western Massachusetts (2013-2021).

Promotional materials by IIAC and WildHeart Center Art

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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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