WIND  STATIONS

—    a curation of missing people

Composed from collaborations in Japan and San Francisco, the interdisciplinary dance work intersects the agency of wind with inquiries into “missing people”.  As a multi-year project, it serves as a performative examination on how absence is carried and shared as a resonant existence.  Overall, looking into what is present with and without body.

The collection of “missing people” and the tracings that influence the work include the Dutch American artist Bas Jan Ader who disappeared sailing a small boat across the Atlantic Ocean (as part of a serial work entitled “In Search of the Miraculous” in 1975), Japanese explorer Michio Kanda who also went missing in a transoceanic journey, flying a hot air balloon entitled "The Starlight" in route from Japan to the US (2008), the American poet Craig Arnold who was last seen researching volcanoes (as inspiration for poetry) on the small island of Kuchinoerabu-jima in Japan (2009), and also, the exodus of several artists from the San Francisco Bay Area in recent years (some of whom make appearances/disappearances in the work for video).

These discursive traces and others, in relation to family members, friends, and fellow artists, serve as open-ended meditations on the sentimental and elemental relationships to a sense of location, stability, and ambiguous loss.  Reflecting through conceptions of nature, the work acts between a resting air, harsh wind, wind that enacts loss, or a wind that enables a boat to sail a great distance to a new place.

As an inquiry to the resonant natures of place, throughout the project's long term trajectory, its construction has shifted between the port areas of Kobe and Maizuru in Japan (in late 2014), and intersects with development at the Kinosaki International Art Center (early 2017) and ongoing artistic and culturally specific layers of creation and presentation in San Francisco (2016-17). 

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