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Nov 2010

"i will always love you, whenever and whenever." is a website where it invites the viewers to order a love letter to be written and mailed to themselves. Providing their names and addresses, love letters will be mailed to the viewers in a month period.

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Sept.2010

30min

"The Irresistible jokes"-- Sullivan Galleries, Chicago

This dance is inspired by Jennifer Lopez's music video, Waiting for tonight (2000). My collaborator, Millie Kapp and I invited four performers to use J.Lo's video as a source for movements for this project. The performers were instructed to study and imitate the singer's facial expressions and movements with the timing of each edited frame in mind. The final dance includes a solo, a duet, a quartet, a floor of vinyl blue tiles and a pool of blue water.

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Summer 2008

33min

"Version Fest 9"--McGuane Park, Chicago

Using eleven active bodies, the project investigate the idea of the "magic show" as the ultimate performative illusion in a tennis court. The happening involves ten men with identical white suits reconfigure changing formations, competing, playing, and dancing within the regimented landscape on 33rd and Halsted in Chicago. The movements directly correlate to Bob Rob's instructions on landscape painting as well as a human-splicing trick performed by Orsen Wells in the movie Follow the Boys (1944). A Grandfather clock and a live singer with black suit also mark the tennis court as a specific temporarility in this 33 min performance. Within this marked landscape of performance, the performers exploit the relationships between bodies in the form of movement, playing within the physical relationships that the court establishes, enunciating it's performativity using the historic practice of magic tricks as performance's epitomizing illusion.

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Winter 2008

"Paper Tigar"--Three Season Gallery

Paper, Color pencils and Blue thread. The cake is approx. 28" diameter and 5" tall. It is divided into 12 pieces. The phrase" make me happy" is embroidered on the top layer of the cake.