Exhibition on view April 20-27
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Opening Reception: April 20, 5:00-7:00 pm
- Live music by Limanjaya
- 5:00-6:30 pm: Ambient Sound Bath
- 6:30-7:00 pm: Performance of UNTITLED 2023 (sample-based hip hop and dance music)
Closing Reception: April 26, 5:00-7:00 pm
- Live music by Limanjaya
- 5:00-6:30 pm: Ambient Sound Bath
- 6:30-7:00 pm: Performance of UNTITLED 2023 (sample-based hip hop and dance music)
Inspired by Japanese Americans’ experience at internment camps, Mai Ide and other Augury House members explore the concepts of rigidity, invisibility, and vulnerability via the themes of grid, glass, and nudity. Our exhibition is a collective effort with diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic methods. Spanning across textile arts, sculptures, digital arts, fine arts, music, and performance, we aim to provide a holistic, immersive visual and audio representation of our life.
Using wood, metal, glass, nude garments, and other textiles, Mai’s Ide's installations seek to articulate the perpetuating microaggression, unconscious intolerance, and institutional racism in her academic and professional life. Ide believes that art should evoke empathy. By fostering cross-cultural empathy with our artworks, we have the ability to reframe the immediate world around us and further influence our audience members to elicit this empathetic understanding in their life around the globe.
Kevin Yatsu, a 4th generation Japanese American, creates multi-media interactions within a gridded world utilizing game engines and cutting-edge technologies. In response to the in-person exhibition, Yatsu frames the digital space as an opportunity for exploring the show's themes through stylized play.
Motivated by Mai’s courage and passion, actor Carissa Te-Hsuan Chu desires to narrate Asian folklore via multidisciplinary arts and examine the intricate relationship between sensory perception and affective preferences with an acute focus on nude colors.
For the auditory aspect, musician Joshua Limanjaya Lim will immerse attendees in an ambient sound bath experience using modular synthesizers. Incorporating samples sourced by other collective members, the music gives voice to our shared yet kaleidoscopic Asian American experiences.
Just like Mai’s textile artworks, through weaving this conceptual quilt with colorful threads of cultures and identities, the mission of this project is to pierce through a self-limiting scarcity mindset and thereon arrays a new playground for us to transcend our traumas and flourish both as individuals and as a collective.
Augury House Members
Kevin Yatsu
Carissa Te-Hsuan-Chu
Joshua Limanjaya Lim
Mai Ide
Christopher Diana-Peebles
Steven Gosvener
Kurumi Conley
Emiri Nakagawa
Harrison Te-Wei Chu