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Lu Yim

@lu_yim

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performer, tranny, dog dad 🇵🇸
residing on ancestral homeland of the Lenape people
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금마타리(Infinite Love) May 2025 Photo Documentation: Rachel Papo @rachelpapo : is a sound and light installation completed through performance. Location: A.I.R. Gallery Performance by: Cynthia Chang, Kate Williams, Lu Yim, Stine An Movement Direction/Choreography: Lu Yim  Sound Description: Kiera Bono Clothing Construction: Kate Williams (vintage tour jacket, military fatigues, misc. fabric) Sound Consultant: @iv_act Speaker Wiring: @jeremy__wy Lighting Programming: @sortofhere Production Support: @margarheath Bronze Fabrication: Josie Crookston Metal Fabrication: @hossly Performance Assistant: Ruby Jagel Performance made possible with support, in part, from a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant PRESS RELEASE (excerpt): 금마타리(Infinite Love) is a response to the way sound has been instituted as a weapon at the Koreas’ Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Yim choreographs from a consumed place, asking performers to engage with material from found and fictional archives surrounding the 38th Parallel as if it is matter to be swallowed and digested on a cellular level. As each performer moves from assimilative knowledge toward sensation, they also move from the conscious realm to the unconscious, the hard to grasp, and the virtual. Utilizing somatic inquiry and embodied disability practices, they consider how bodily dissociation might serve as an analogue for the experience of virtuality to interrupt and disturb a disembodiment shaped by U.S. militarism within a global past that continues to unfold into the present. Kate spreads her arms like wings on a vertical diagonal. Behind her is Cynthia who leans against the wall with their arms up. by @lu_yim
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a year ago
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THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: : : It was an amazing week in residence @chocolatefactorytheater continuing the development of Bottom Edge Air. : The week concluded in a public showing and I am still so floored by all who showed up for it. Thank you all who showed up in that blundery weather. I really mean it, it means alot to me. More on the horizon for this work! Excited to share it again Feb 19+20 @pageantpageantpageant , link in bio taken in The Chocolate Factory Theater by @lu_yim
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8 months ago
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🫧 PE 2024!🫧 : : I am so in love with @physical_education.life: @alliehankins @takataka.takataka.takataka and #keyongaskin We started out as friends gathering over wine and snacks to talk about dance and performance and 11 years later we continue to shape-shift and still cultivate that vibe. These past ten days we facilitated and performed at SFDI (Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation) @velocity_seattle and connected with other incredible artists and students of dance. I was so impressed and enthralled by the high level of heart and curiosity in each class. We also produced our own mini-fest in Portland, OR SAY WHEN @pwnwpdx. Thank you Cosmos Dark @browncalculus , #jesspretty, and @midorihirose for your stunning performances. And I finally got to share the film I filmed in Portland. I am feeling blessed. I would do it again. taken in 12th Avenue Arts by @lu_yim
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2 years ago
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Bottom Edge Air Mabou Mines, July 2026 : : This summer we had an opportunity to mount this work again, this time in Mabou Mines’ blackbox theater. The starkness of tech and the proscenium orientation created a deeper vacuum within the voids of the work. Clinical. Suspended. Post-Meditated. Also, if medicated, a mix of Gabapentin and Ketamine. Deepest gratitude to the cast and their deeply researched performances over this year, and the creative power of Zo, Laurel and Shana, who illuminated the vision with their brilliance/skills/auras. Bottom Edge Air Choreography: Lu Yim Location: ReVENUE "And..." Festival at Mabou Mines, 150 1st Ave. 2nd Floor, New York, NY Performance Date: July 26, 2026 Description: Bottom Edge Air works through public symbols and characters to reckon with illness, thinking beyond the language of symptom and through a somatically metaphysical and quantum lens. Audio description/Performance: Kiera Bono Performance: Cynthia Chang, Ella W-S, lu yim, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Yining Chi.  Sound and Choreography: Lu Yim Lighting: Shana Crawford @sortofhere   Costumes: Laurel Atwell @affirmation.machine Tesla Roadster Construction: Zo Roze @zoroze.art Videography and Editing: Kyle b. co @durationality taken in Mabou Mines by @lu_yim
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9 days ago
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Bottom Edge Air at Mabou Mines Review by Jack Meriwether for Impulse Magazine : link in bio to read in full : Jack took great care of this work in this review. Writing about and for dance is increasingly rare and @freelancebodydouble knows how to do it so go give it a read! : : Bottom Edge Air Re/Venue "And..." Festival at Mabou Mines New York, NY July 26, 2026 Description: Bottom Edge Air begins as a series of overlapping duets with two subjects foregrounded, Musk’s personal Tesla “Roadster” and “Starman”, a mannequin astronaut, who in 2017 were launched into space, as part of SpaceX’s project to colonize Mars. Trailing this duet is the entrance of Luigi Mangione, Baby, Military Man #1 + #2, and an innocuous black case containing an inflatable air mattress, later revealed alongside a bedpan. Through a process of somatically driven character development, each of the 6 performers express distinct bodily logics of sick time, carrying and exchanging embodiments for one another. Assisted by live audio description, their journey from subjects of the state to surrogates for us, unfolds through complex choreographic sequencing. Similar to footnotes in a book, the AD offers reference points that assist in the cinematic unfolding of a world distorting: a post-capitalist neo-fascist space-wasteland collapsing into anaesthesia-induced surgical scenes. As the audience witnesses their illogical fate, the choreography invites a reflection on alternate ways of being within this manufactured crisis we share. Credits: Sound and Choreography: Lu Yim Audio description/Performance: Kiera Bono Performance: Cynthia Chang, Ella W-S, lu yim, Takahiro Yamamoto, Nami Yamamoto, and Yining Chi. Lighting: Shana Crawford. Costumes: Laurel Atwell. Tesla Roadster Construction: Zo Roze. The development of Bottom Edge Air was supported by the Creative Residency at The Chocolate Factory Theater, the Artist Fellowship at Movement Research, and a Queens Art Fund Individual Artist Project Grant. by @lu_yim
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2 months ago
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Metal carcasses baking in the sun, vultured over and rusting out. I notice some with airbags open and pushing against their broken windows, and someone is sledghammering off car parts in the other aisle. I am in the 100's in SE Portland, OR, a blue collar part of town thats buddied up against the strip where Asian-run restaurants and sex workers turn lights on and off at various times of day. I have zero tools with me so I proceed to scavange like the little rat I am, or as zo put it, a hunter gatherer, searching for car fragments at the "pick-n-pull" to be used in this upcoming performance, a site of ruin where you can't ignore the death that got us here. I hope you can join and see them in action. Bottom Edge Air (Part I) Sunday July 26, 4:30pm as part of "And...." a pop-up festival @maboumines organized by @revenuenyc Featuring Performers: Cynthia Chang @boiled_wool Ella Dawn W-S @dancews Takahiro Yamamoto @takataka.takataka.takataka Yining Chi @this1s_chi Audio Description/Dramaturgy: Kiera Bono @stregabono Roadster Construction: Zo Roze @zoroze.art Costumes: Laurel Atwell @affirmation.machine Lighting: Shana Crawford @sortofhere Sound/Choreography: lu yim @lu_yim Car at a junkyard picked over like a carcass. by @lu_yim
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3 months ago
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Central to Lu’s @lu_yim work is a profound relationship to somatic movement and the adaptability of the body itself. Their performances are informed by the different needs and abilities of each performer, allowing movement and choreography to emerge through bodily responsiveness rather than rigid structure. Throughout the work, bodies move together and apart, at times colliding, supporting, or dissolving into one another within imagined landscapes that exist as fractured parts of a whole. ➜ Lu Yim is a 2025 TTFF microgrant recipient. ★ Fave Spot: Ridgewood Reservoir 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘀: 𝘽𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙤𝙢 𝙀𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝘼𝙞𝙧, 2026 Pageant @pageantpageantpageant | Brooklyn, NY 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀: Cynthia Chang @boiled_wool Ella Dawn W-S @dancews Nami Yamamoto @namicake73 Takahiro Yamamoto @takataka.takataka.takataka Yining Chi @this1s_chi Kiera Bono @stregabono Lu Yim @lu_yim 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗲𝘀: Laurel Atwell @affirmation.machine 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: Maggie Heath @margarheath 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: DB Amorin @ddbbaammoorriinn 𝘽𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙤𝙢 𝙀𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝘼𝙞𝙧, 2025 Movement Research at Judson Church @judsonchurchnyc | New York, NY 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀: Cynthia Chang @boiled_wool Ella Dawn W-S @dancews Nami Yamamoto @namicake73 Takahiro Yamamoto @takataka.takataka.takataka Yining Chi @this1s_chi Kiera Bono @stregabono Lu Yim @lu_yim 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗲𝘀: Laurel Atwell @affirmation.machine 금마타리 (𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚), 2025 A.I.R. Gallery @airgallery | Brooklyn, NY 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀: Stine An @gregorspamsa Kate Williams @temp.girl.1.2.3 Lu Yim @lu_yim _______ Video Produced by: @brittanyjprater @jude.tallichet @sabs_made_it @ggvz_ny _______ The Tallichet Freedman Foundation was founded to honor the life and artistic legacy of Matt Freedman by directly supporting visual artists in Queens, NY. By investing locally, TTFF supports connection, community, and encourages artists to keep making art.💕 by @lu_yim
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4 months ago
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Congratulations to Lu Yim @lu_yim a Fall 2025 Tallichet Freedman Foundation micro grant recipient! We’re thrilled to celebrate their work! “I am an artist working through sound, performance, and embodiment practices. What is felt in my work is a dialogue with both hyper-sensorial and dissociative dysphorias. What I attempt to make material is the pressurized interior spaces of feeling and being that sensation creates. I work in service to these metaphysical realities by attentively giving form for these experiences to live and communicate autonomously from the visible performing body. Oriented towards healing actions, I integrate sick time into my collaborations and group work. This means slowing down a moment within a sequence of events and returning to a forgotten sensation. My interest is to embody time as infinite, and to materialize possible ways that sensation, distortion, and pain can become a liberatory force.” Studio pics 📸 @ggvz_ny Artwork images courtesy of the artist. ________ The Tallichet Freedman Foundation (TTFF) honors the life and legacy of Matt Freedman by supporting visual artists in Queens, NY. Through hyperlocal microgrants, each grantee receives unrestricted funding, a studio visit, and a featured interview on our website to expand visibility. Our mission is to strengthen community, support those working outside traditional art world structures, and encourage artists to keep making art. 💕 Black-and-white portrait of artist Lu Yim during a studio visit for The Tallichet Freedman Foundation as a Fall 2025 microgrant recipient. by @lu_yim
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4 months ago
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Photos from Bottom Edge Air by lu yim @lu_yim from lu’s recent showing on February 7, as part of our Early Stage Creative Residencies. Performed by: Cynthia Chang, Ella W-S, lu yim, Nami Yamamoto, Takahiro Yamamoto, Yining Chi, Kiera Bono Audio Description: Kiera Bono Costumes: Laurel Atwell Lighting: Maggie Heath Installation: DB Amorin If you missed out, Bottom Edge Air will be at @pageantpageantpageant on February 19 and 20. Don’t miss it! by @lu_yim
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8 months ago
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THIS WORK on its way to @pageantpageantpageant in FEB '26. : Bottom-Edge-Air (excerpt) Choreography by lu yim Movement Research at Judson Church November 17, 2025 Performers: Starman: Yining Chi Tesla: Nami Yamamoto Luigi Mangione: Ella W-S Baby: Cynthia Chang Military Man #1: Takahiro Yamamoto Military Man #2: lu yim Audio Description/Narrator: Kiera Bono Sound Composition + Design: lu yim Videography: Makenna Finch Access Dramaturgy: Kiera Bono This work made possible with support from Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Fellowship and a subsidized residency from Lower Manhattan Culture Council. taken in Judson Memorial Church by @lu_yim
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9 months ago
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GHOST BARRELS a new performance w @lu_yim @funtofuntofunto @arg___art thursday january 8, 7p free with rsvp at @sick_center , @recessart please join our year of circling something to get closer to. since the spring we’ve been talking in trio, our starting point is the apparition of once-in-material-world-but-now-nonexistent historical “bed pianos” built for horizontal in valid players. we follow layered tangents from there, together, into sick score-making, fictional music, the legend of the first piano in Korea, music with colonial violent ends (“play the melody with your trigger finger!”), and tendrils of connection and permission between disabled artists. masked, with air purifiers, and wheelchair accessible with accessible bathroom. email info@recessart.org if you have any access questions or requests. taken in Recess by @lu_yim
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9 months ago
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