September 29th at 7:30 PM

Lydia Jialu Li 黎珈璐:
少女之眼 Eye Eye Eye! 

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About the artists

Lydia Jialu Li 黎珈璐

Lydia is a Chinese and American performer currently nomading between LA and NY. A Hong Kong citizen born and raised in Beijing, and a world traveler grounded by the pandemic. They play in theaters and films, channeling intimate, colorful, weird, and grande stories about resistance, rebirth, romance, and the Chinese diaspora. Work highlights: The Hidden Territories of The Bacchae (Double Edge Theatre), Sonar Es Luchar by A Todo Dar Production (Pregones and Cara Mia Theatre), Little Red Book or Plural Bodies (NOW Festival, REDCAT), Rasgos Asiáticos by Virginia Grise, The Map by Robert Wilson (on pandemic halt), Book Of Survivor (Ming Contemporary Art Museum Shanghai), and April 4th (feature film).  Hold a MFA in Acting from CalArts. Learn more at  lilydia.com.

Kai-Luen Liang

Kai-Luen Liang is a Chinese-American sound and media artist and musician based in Los Angeles. His work explores various aspects of technology and erasure, surveillance/prediction, algorithmic divination,identity and migration, and shanzhai-hacktivism-piracy. He received his undergraduate in Asian American Studies from UC Santa Barbara and a MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Music Technology as well as a specialization at the Center for Integrated Media. His work has been shown at XCOAX Conference for Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X,South By South West(SXSW2017), ARS Electronica, Beijing 751 Design Week, Małopolski Ogród Sztuki and the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts Gallery. He has performed all over the world at venues and festivals including the Boiler Room (Beijing 2016), Shanghai International Jazz Festival, and Clockenflap Music Festival (Hong Kong). His music has been released on SVBKLT, Ran Music, Modern Sky, and Robox Neotech (Berlin). He currently is associate faculty at California Institute of the Arts teaching at the Center For Integrated Media.