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Exhibitions
and Performances
2010
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London Independent Film Festival
The Heart of No Place
Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden
The Heart of No Place
Romania International Film Festival
The Heart of No Place
The World Film Festival of Bangkok
The Heart of No Place
Polar Film Festival, Turku (Finland)
The Heart of No Place
Festival Internazionale Un Film Per La Pace, Udine (Italy)
The Heart of No Place
Tisza Cinema Festival, Szolnok (Hungary)
The Heart of No Place
Mostra Internacional de Vídeodança no Ccsp, Sào Paulo
The Nailing
NewMedia Fest, Köln
The Potato Woman
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2009
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Festival
International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, France
The Heart of No Place (world premiere)
Temps d'Images Festival of Films on Art, Lisbon
The Heart of No Place
Mostra Internacional de Vìdeodança, Rio de Janeiro
The Nailing
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2008
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Dana em Foco
Videodance Festival, Rio de Janeiro
The Nailing
War of '99
Animation World
Network
The Potato Woman
1,332 Feet
Below the Sea
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2007
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Ankara International Film Festival
The Potato Woman
The Potato
Woman
Dana em Foco, Rio de Janeiro
Three Dance Pieces from The Heart of No Place
Los Angeles Short Film Festival
The Potato
Woman
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2006
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Filmlichter 06 Detmold
International Short Film Festival, Germany
The Potato Woman
"Where Is the Love?"
International Short Film Festival, Bucharest
Breakfast in Bed with John
The Potato Woman
Fullerton
Film Festival
The Potato Woman
L.A. Freewaves
Festival
The Potato
Woman
24 Hours of Nuremberg
The Potato
Woman
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2004
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Festival de
Cine de Barcelona
The Potato Woman
Video Installation from The Heart of No
Place
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2003
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Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin
1,332 Feet
Below the Sea at Vidothque, Paris and at Podewil, Berlin
The First Digital Art Festival
Rosario, Argentina
Une Semaine de
Bont as part of Violence Online curated by
Agricola de Cologne
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2002
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New Territories
Festival, Glasgow
Shelter 9, installation
Battery Park
Electronic Music Festival, Kln
Shelter 9.5
Computer Space
Festival, Sofia (Special Prize of Organization Committee)
Violens
Festival, Tabor, Czech Republic
"E-magic -
Cybermedia Events"/43rd International Film Festival
Thessaloniki
Liberarti
Festival at Liverpool Biennale
A Virtual
Memorial
Une Semaine de
Bont as part of Violence Online curated by Agricola
de Cologne
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2001
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Millennium
Scientific Film Festival, Szolnok, Hungary
1,332
Feet Below the Sea
Rencontres Internationales
Paris-Berlin
Video documentation of Shelter 8 at Cerise (Paris)
and at Brotfabrik (Berlin)
Videoformes
Festival, Clermont-Ferrand
Shelter as part of
"A Virtual Memorial" CD-ROM by Agricola de Cologne
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2000
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Monaco
Dance Forum Dance and Technology Program, Monaco
Shelter
9,
installation
A Virtual Memorial (http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org)
Shelter 9
Highways, Santa Monica as
part of "Hot & Sticky."
Fragment No. 9, a performance
excerpt from work in progress The Heart of No Place
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1999
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The Plaza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Shelter 8, installation
Battery Park Electronic Music
Festival, Kln
1,332 Feet Blow the Sea and Touch
(Reanimation), premieres, in installation
The Lab, San Francisco
Shelter 8 (premiere)
Highways, Santa Monica
1,332 Feet Below the Sea excerpt (video
version, 6 min.) as part of "Hot & Sticky"
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1998
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"New
Windows" at One Colorado, Pasadena
Shelter 7.5.1 (30 min.),
installation
Hollywood
Athletic Club
1,332 Feet Blow
the Sea (performance version, 6 min.) as part of "XX: The
Happening" to benefit Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
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1997
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Huntington Beach
Art Center
Shelter (Phase VII), an installation
(60 min.) with performances
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1996
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The American Center, Paris** (23-25
May; cancelled due to closing of theater)
Performance of Tokyo Rose
The Stage, San Jose**
Performance of Tokyo
Rose
Festival of the
Five Senses: Touch at Hollywood Moguls
Untitled
(Touch) in installation
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Bing Theater
choreography, Marilyn '93/InCage by Amnon Wolman, performed by Charles Lane
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1995
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The Lab, San Francisco
Tokyo Rose (premiere of
touring version)
University of
Hawaii
Tokyo Rose
Honolulu Academy of Arts, as part of
"Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 50 Years Later"
Glaxa Studios, Los Angeles
Tokyo Rose excerpts
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1994
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Japanese American Cultural Community Center Doizaki
Gallery, Los Angeles
Performance of Tokyo
Rose
Galerie E43 IM
Treppenhaus, Berlin, Germany
Tokyo Rose (exhibition of
video documentation)
The New Gallery
at the 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica
Exhibition of object from performance Fishing
for White Ferret (Shelter Phase IV)
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1993
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Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
Performance of Tokyo Rose, with an
exhibition in the LACE Gallery Hall
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1992
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The Performance
Art Festival, Cleveland, Ohio
Video Freewaves
Festival at the California Plaza Water Court, Los Angeles
Tokyo Rose excerpts
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1991
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Japan America
Plaza,
Los Angeles
Shelter Phase
VI,
a site-specific installation/performance
The California
Plaza,
Los Angeles
Shelter Phase V
Highways
Performance Space, Santa Monica
Tokyo Rose excerpts
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1990
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The Lab, San Francisco
Shelter Phase
II;
Madame Strangelove, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love the XXXX
The Los Angeles
Open Festival
The Last Supper
(Shelter Phase IV-1/2),
The Santa
Monica Arts Festival
Fishing for
White Ferret (Shelter Phase IV), a site-specific performance with five
dancers
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
as part of the "Twisted Spring"
choreographers' series
Warehouse SOMA, San Francisco
Madame
Strangelove, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love the XXXX
Japanese-American Cultural
Community Center Doizaki Gallery, Los Angeles
Shelter Phase
II
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica
choehography for Prometheus on a Black Landscape by Keith Mason
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1989
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Highways
Performance Space, Santa Monica
Madame
Strangelove, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love the XXXX
Powerhouse Theater, Santa Monica
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1988
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Schokofabrik, Berlin
Neither Garlic
nor Beans
Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Holland
The Sprengel
Museum, Hannover
Tempodrom, Berlin.
Neither Garlic
nor Beans (with German subtitles) as part of "Jugendtag 88,"
organized by Sozialistische Einheiz Partei W. Berlin
Fischlabor,
Berlin. Neither
Garlic nor Beans
Kino Eiszeit, Berlin, Germany
Westwerk, Hamburg
Gallus Theater, Frankfurt
Verein fr Visuelle Kommunikation, Hannover
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1987
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The Los Angeles
Fringe Festival
Astro Boy Meets
Godzilla, co-produced by Oranges and Sardines Gallery
Wallenboyd
Theater, Los Angeles
"Jap Rap:
Godzilla" (Astro Boy Meets Godzilla excerpt)
Oranges and
Sardines Gallery, Los Angeles
Astro Boy Meets
Godzilla
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1986
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Oranges and
Sardines Gallery, Los Angeles
Neither Garlic nor Beans; Astro Boy Meets
Godzilla
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1985
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SUSHI, Inc., San Diego
Neither Garlic
nor Beans as part of "Neofest" performance festival
Los Angeles
Center for Photographic Studies
Neither Garlic
nor Beans as part of "Imagine There's a Future"
Southern California
Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles
Neither Garlic
nor Beans as part of "Artists for Self-Determination
Roark Graphics, Los Angeles
A painting
exhibition.
California
Institute of the Arts Modular Theater
Salom, a dance-theater adaptation of
Oscar Wilde's play (MFA thesis production).
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