Distance Rituals

collaboration | 2020-2023

From 2020 to 2023, Yo-Yo Lin and I wrote a series of movement scores as a pathway for being together while we found ourselves apart. We began interfacing with nature and non-human living beings as portals for connection: embodying bodies of water, the sun, flower buds, roots. In turning to nature and non-human living beings as portals for connection, we conjured a shared placehood that formed deeper relationships with the land we were on.

This project unfurled into a two-channel video, accordian zine, and postcard pack.

sky • body • water • fall (天 • 體 • 水 • 落)

4 min / 2 channels | Official Selection: Winnepeg Underground Film Festival | Exhibited at: One Mile Gallery, Below Grand Gallery, NYU ITP

Distance Rituals zine

Inspired by a flowing river and Buddhist scripture books, this Distance Rituals zine unfolds into a long collage on one side featuring a series of photographs as portals, and on the other our series of movement scores. Exhibited at: Below Grand Gallery, NYC.

Distance Rituals postcards

As part of Finnegan Shannon's Creative Tool Box for Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Yo-Yo Lin and I redesigned two scores from our Distance Rituals zine, sun and budding, to be included as a set of postcards that can be done collaboratively with loved ones, near or far.