Denise Uyehara

Featured Performances

• The Senkotsu (Mis)Translation Project (2006-2009)
  February 9, 2015 | 9:29 am

  

  The Senkotsu (Mis)translation Project (Highways Performance Space 2009, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery/COLA Awards 2006) is an interactive interdisciplinary performance installation that explores the entangled history of Okinawa and the U.S. military which has had a presence on these southern-most islands of Japan since World War II. It evokes the battle of Okinawa in which one-third […]

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• Archipelago (2012)
  February 8, 2015 | 12:26 pm

  

  ARCHIPELAGO is a new multidisciplinary work by critically-acclaimed performance artist Denise Uyehara and award-winning visualist Adam Cooper-Terán. Through video, image and movement they remix ancient myths of Okinawa with the story of Batuc, a village in the Yaqui River Valley which was flooded by the Mexican government. They weave together loss, cultural survival, wrath of […]

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• Transitions w/James Luna, LACE (2012)
  January 7, 2015 | 2:18 pm

  

        Transitions by Denise Uyehara and James Luna Everybody has a past.  For James Luna and myself, that past began in Orange County — land of malls, surfers and the 405 Freeway.  How did we evolve from being ethnic minorities in suburbia to the artists we are today? And in the sea of consumerism […]

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• Big Head (2001 – 2003)
  January 1, 2015 | 9:36 am

  

  Big Head revisits the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II and considers current-day treatment of those perceived as “the enemy now”, including Muslim Americans, Arab Americans, and South Asian Americans. A work that has been in the making since early 2001, this poetic, interdisciplinary performance offers up letters from Rohwer Internment Camp in […]

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• Denise in 1 minute
  January 1, 2014 | 9:46 am

  

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• Bus Stop Dreaming, MOCA-Tucson (2012)
  January 12, 2012 | 1:20 pm

  

  Bus Stop Dreaming is part of Dreams & Silhouettes, a multi-disciplinary performance that appears at various community and art events in response to the ongoing deportations of thousands of undocumented immigrants in the city of Tucson. Bus Stop is a collaboration between two award-winning artists – documentary filmmaker Jason Aragon, and performance artist Denise Uyehara – and […]

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