Dreams with AYDO Studio & Mudang Jenn

This will be a gathering in two parts: a live performance, followed by and open-format conversation with the widely recognized and respected shaman and cultural worker, Mudang Jenn. They will explore Korean ancestral spiritual practices related to dream-work through meditative, ritual-based dance and open-ended communal dialogue. They will also focus on dream work through a feminist perspective, centering matriarchal voices.

Featuring performances by Bo Kyung lee and Luyan Lili Li.

AYDO (A young Yu & Nicholas Oh) is a collaborative artist duo based in New York. Through performance-based film and site-specific installation, AYDO re-imagines Korean folklore and precolonial spiritual practices to reflect personal and Asian American perspectives. They are not faithful to historical canon and transgress older traditions, regenerating them within diasporic contexts through methods of disruption and metamorphosis. Performances are filmed in spaces ranging from ritual spaces to sites of ongoing geopolitical tension, from disfigured wartime buildings and ecological sanctuaries to immersive environments constructed in the studio. They activate these spaces by distilling narratives and visual cues from their heritage and create new stories–exploring themes of race, Western imperialism, sexuality, and migration. AYDO has exhibited and performed at venues such as Cantor Art Center at Stanford University, Museum of Art and Design, Christie’s Inc, Canal Projects, Hub-Robeson Gallery at Penn State University, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, ChaShaMa, Artist Alliance, AHL Foundation, and Fashion Institute of Technology. AYDO was awarded artist residencies at Sculpture Space, Dongguk University, and Catwalk Institute.

About Cosmologyscape

This program is part of Creative Time’s public art commission Cosmologyscape by artists Alisha B Wormsley and Kite. The multimedia and participatory public art project, presented by Creative Time, is an invitation to the public to dream. Cosmologyscape seeks to harness the duality of dreams—as both individual tools of self-awareness and collective acts of imagination and world-building—and encourages the exploration of dreaming practices through an artist designed interface. How does it work? Take a nap, zone out, find your dream state. After that, visit www.cosmologyscape.com to submit your dream, and if you need help dreaming, follow a Dream Path on the website designed by a group of interdisciplinary artists. The dreams shared with Cosmologyscape will then be translated algorithmically into a pattern derived from Lakota visual language and Black quilting references, represented first in a growing digital tapestry of our collective dreams, and ultimately, into a series of sculptures unveiled in the fall, designed for further rest and dreaming.

Accessibility

CTHQ is located on the 7th Floor of 59 East 4th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. The building entrance has no steps and elevator access is provided directly to CTHQ. Service animals are welcome.

A variety of seating options are available including: wooden chairs with backs and wooden benches and stools. This event begins at 6:00 pm and ends at 8:00 pm.

Accessibility Requests

If you have any questions regarding accessibility or to request specific accommodations, please email: curatorial@creativetime.org.

Covid Guidelines

While masks are not required, they are available to all guests at CTHQ and mask-wearing is encouraged. If you are feeling sick or have tested positive for Covid-19, we ask that you please refrain from participating in CTHQ programs in order to care for fellow community members.

Transportation

The closest MTA subway stations are: Astor Place on the 6 line, 2nd Avenue on the F line, and 8th Street-NYU on the R Line. These stations are not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are: Bleecker Street on the 6 line and Broadway-Lafayette on the B/D/F/M line, with an elevator on the north side of Houston St. between Lafayette St. and Crosby St. Parking in the vicinity is free after 6 PM.