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The image of three female Asian dancers gathering around the white vertical installation covered by silky fabrics.
Photograph by Chien-An Yuan

Chimera: Phylogenesis

Okyoung Noh and IS/LAND

video, 2024

Graduate

Chimera is an immersive sound-optics-focused performance, in collaboration with AAPI Performance Collective IS/LAND, and optics researcher, Do Young Kim.

The video features three dancers exploring, confronting, and ultimately dismantling a giant, vertical installation that sits in the center of focus. The dancers subsume pieces of the establishment into a new creature: monstrous yet powerful, unshackled and on the cusp of liberation from the oppressive structure, creating something new and previously unimaginable - a Chimera.