Denise Uyehara

Featured Performances

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

  

  Ancestral Cartographic RitualsA work-in-progress by James Luna and Denise UyeharaWednesday, November 29, 2017 video 7:30pm to 8:30pm Oshman Hall, McMurtry BuildingStanford UniversityFree 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, or contradict traditional […]

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

  

  Click here for PBS feature Click here for 10 minute highlight video “If settlers never arrived in this land, how would your life be different?” Borderlands Theater proudly presents Shooting Columbus, written and performed by the Fifth World Collective, a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists from the state of Arizona. The work examines the […]

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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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