Walking at Night by Myself

The piece questions, through its form and content, the plasticity of human perception by employing elaborate visual and aural interference patterns, transcending the spectacular to the phenomenological: from seeing to experiencing. In its core, this piece challenges our perception of reality, and our understanding of personhood through a shifting landscape of monochromatic projection design, hypnotic repetitions, moiré patterns, monaural phasing, and gif- like gestures performed by two similarly-looking Asian women.

Through this sensorial confusion, we consider cultural political questions that ask: how do we perceive visible minority women? When and how do they emerge in our current political climate? Walking at Night by Myself invites the audience to contemplate these questions in a subtle, poetic, and imagistic way, eliciting their considerations of these contentious social inquiries with greater openness of thought and empathy.