Artist Statement: Cassie Mira
Cassie Mira's work analyzes transitional spaces by exploring human interaction through transitional experiences and investigating upheaval. Informed by research in LGBTQIA+ history and the development of modern computing, she investigates adaptive responses of individuals and communities. Her work incorporates field recordings, assemblage, installation, performance and ritual.
Artist Statement: Ching-In Chen
I am a cross-genre writer with a community organizing background, specifically in Asian American communities in coalition with other communities of color and LGBTQIA* communities. My creative work arises from my community investments and is grounded in the framework of speculative poetics. In developing collective imagination, the central question I ask is – what is our relationship and responsibility to each other through time and history? What do we want, dream it to be? As a maker, my work incorporates multivocality and juxtaposition.and values improvisation (using what’s in the room) within a social space to create meaningful work for participants and gathered community. I honor simultaneous truths and lived experiences within the same space by foregrounding poetry's compositional strategies incorporating silence, rupture, collage and repetition.
postcard image for breathing in a time of disaster project, two sound wave forms of breath collide to form a stitched lung on a multicolored fabri