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(Click here for video, 4 mins.) 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 [...]
We are pleased to announce… Pan Left Productions, Jason Aragon and I have been awarded a MAP Fund to create an evening of outdoor, multi-media “micro-performances” at sites of deportation in southern Tucson. The audience will view the performances from inside cars as driver takes them from site to site on this three-mile journey. Bus Stop [...]
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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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Click here for video excerpts Uyehara draws shimmering blue and green maps over her body as she evokes what marks us in our migration towards more borderless identities: blue numbers on a Jewish woman’s arm; a Chicana biker neighbor; queerness; love and violence between Asian women and men; a grandmother’s fiery suicide. In this moving [...]
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Sacred Naked Nature Girls (1993 – 1997) Denise is one of five founding members of Sacred Naked Nature Girls, a culturally diverse experimental performance collective that toured with critical acclaim from 1993-1997. Founding members are: Danielle Brazell, Laura Meyers, Aikila Oliver, Bella Hui, and Denise Uyehara. SNNG’s work includes “Untitled Flesh” (’93), “The Last Place [...]
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