DATES

Fall/Spring 2023/24: Distinguished Visiting Faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University in the department of Kinetic Imaging

September 23: Film work untitled:embrace premieres at the Darkroom Film Festival in London, UK and is an Official Selection at Experimental Film Festival in New Bern, North Carolina.

October 10: New Film work surface tension (tentative title) shot in Hieidaira near Kyoto this past summer, begins post-production.

December 31: Film work surface tension enters final edit. (more soon)

Spring 2024: Visiting Artist faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University in the department of Kinetic Imaging.

February 4-8: Film work untitled:embrace Official selection of the Tokyo International Short Film Festival

Fall 2024: Three months in Japan and Korea: shooting a community video project in Hieidaria, and researching a new performance project incorporating shamanistic Korean cleansing rituals in Seoul.

Spring 2025: Exploratory shoot for new film work tentatively titled Hieidaira-Kollwitz Project, begins post production; Conference at VCU incorporating research into Korean spiritual cleansing ritual “Ssitgim-gut”.

July14-August 8: Developmental research rehearsals in Seoul with Prof. Soo Jung Chae at K-Arts University for the tentatively titled performance work, my seeking gut.