Denise Uyehara

Featured Performances

• Ancestral Cartographic Rituals, Stanford Nov. 2017
  November 21, 2017 | 8:08 pm

  

  Ancestral Cartographic Rituals A work-in-progress by James Luna and Denise Uyehara Wednesday, November 29, 2017 7:30pm to 8:30pm Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building Stanford University Free and open to the public – come early, it may fill up quickly!  Details here   What happens when Indigenous artists test their DNA? How do their findings confirm, authenticate, […]

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• Shooting Columbus (2017)
  May 15, 2017 | 9:24 pm

  

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• 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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