Performance, Life of Trees

Life of Trees, 2021, All recycled materials, acrylic, hand and machine sewing, 30:00 Performance.  
This is a walking based costumed performance that I created and led on October 22nd in 2021. The performance subject matter is about humanity, compassionate care and environmental concern. I used recycled materials to create the funny looking costumes in three different races of performers. 
We made some sound of bells and hit the garbage can as a drum, while we gave plant seeds to people on the Gansevoort street in Meatpacking district, NYC. 
This work was made possible by the City Artist Corps Grants in 2021.

 

Video edited by Livia Sa

 

Art Director- Yuko Uchida

Performer- Floor Grootenhuis

Performer- Mariana Olinger

Performer- Yuko Uchida

Videographer- Livia Sa

Photographer- Russ Sharma

Production Assistant- Michael Murton 

 


 Performance, Sunshower

 

Performance, Sunshower is a 20mints duration of theatrical performance that is based on my childhood experience and relationship with nature spirits.

I created 10 wearable costumes and the installation including hand-sewn tapestries and stop-motion video on the walls.

All costumes were inspired by my emotional behaviors, and sculpted abstractly.

 

Venue at Ideal Glass Studio, NY, NY

Art director, Yuko Uchida

Sound Composer, Michael Murton

Videography, Nicholas Motyka

Video editing, Lily Huang

Photographer, Russ Sharma 


Performance, Sunshower (one of the part)


Full stop motion-video of Where You Are


Short stop-motion from Where You Are



Dreamland Full Video

 


Dreamland Teaser


 

 

 Parade -May 18th, 2016 Abbey Road-

Parade is developing and is ongoing project that I started from March, 2016. It's an interactive performance, and we hand out some materials to audience to make connections. 

We performed on fifth avenue including in front of Guggenheim Museum and Metropolitan Museum.

After all, we entered to National Academy Museum during the opening reception.

The entire Parade was about 2 hours.

 

Art Director- Yuko Uchida

Performer- Floor Grootenhuis

Performer- Kenichi Nakajima

Performer- Yuko Uchida

Videographer- Nina Hein and Anouck Marquer

Photographer- Kakeru Asai and Gabriel Beghi


 Parade  -teaser video- 

 

The "Parade" was on March second, 2016 in NYC.

This is a teaser video.

Videographer and Photographer- Su Bin Choi

Edited by Yuko Uchida


Inside the cage

 

This is an experimental collaboration with Kenichi Nakajima.

We often feel a cage around us in our daily life. We were craving to break the cage and aspired to change our inside. In this work, we painted and sculpted to show our desire on canvas on the wall, in 200 x 200 sq. feet studio for 10 hours in Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2015. 

04:53 mints. Video edited by Kenichi Nakajima

 


Beat

 

The performance Beat, with Kenichi Nakajima at Ideal Glass Studio in November, 2015.

The whole performance was about 20 minutes.  

Edited by Yuko Uchida

 


 Experiment for Shadow Installation 


Stop-motion animation


 Collaborated Art performance video

I had the performance with two other artists in December, 2014 in Brooklyn.

This is the teaser video and edited by Noriko Nakano.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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