Breath in this World

In the organizer's words:

Performance by Aine Nakamura

ZK/U Fellow Aine Nakamura will present her work Breath in this World. The work is for spoken words, sung voice and body movement, with a membrane and a shape. She focuses on the potentialities of voice and on the listening and sensing bodies. "As I see the moon in the night's darkness, which receives the light from the sun, the earth changing the light's shape with the earth's shadow, I think about light and darkness, lines and shapes, wounds and love, and humans' eyes."

Aine Nakamura is a performer, artist, poet and improviser. She focuses on the sensibility and sensitivity in listening to hidden stories and performs using sung and spoken voice and movement across multiple cultural/transcultural sites, that are her interventions in traditional power structures. She writes words, some of which become scores, and considers shapes as if her throat itself is a membrane and body or inner is a changing shape or phenomenon among worldly phenomena, in relations. In her recent transdisciplinary works, she explores the presence of wounds and repair, and the concepts of fragile kindness and love to access pathways to vulnerability.

Her recent works include her solo performance of sung and spoken voice and body "Under an Unnamed Flower" during an invitation to the 50th International Theatre Festival at the Venice Biennale; solo performance project "Circle hasu We plant seeds in the spring of mountains," presented at Theatertreffen at Berliner Festspiele upon an invitation as a Stückemarkt artist; and a month-long site-specific exhibition and performance project "hands on tape," presented at The Lab in SF, unfolded over research, conversations and collaborations.