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Lumi Tan

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Wildly overdue BTS and beyond of an incredible opening weekend and month of install for my exhibition “Here, to you, now” @converge_45 in August 📆 🌞🍐🦦🏞️ Far too many people to thank and IG only lets me tag 20– but the absence of photo evidence hopefully doesn’t diminish the incredible work, spirit, and commitment it took to get to this place from 28 artists, 16 partner sites and staffs, countless volunteers, probably not enough technicians and the Converge45 board. Executive and Artistic Director Amanda Donnan @asiseeityes and Operations Manager Ilsa Payne were (and continue to be!) the superglue across every level. 🫂🫂🫂

Thank you Portland for coming out in support of community members old and new, for being so beautiful, for keeping it very real, for feeding me so well, and for embracing my ideas for the past two years. There are more programs to come- but still savoring these memories for awhile 🍃🍃🍃

First image is keyon gaskin’s (wisely not on IG) performance at Barn Radio with sidony o’neal’s installation. Last image is by @marcusfischer from my opening remarks when I apparently cracked myself up 🙃 taken in Portland, Oregon by @lumit

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For our inaugural digital issue, we invited two commissioning editors – Oregon-based Amelia Rina and New York-based Lumi Tan – to connect writers and artists in dialogue and to trace the currents shaping artmaking across Oregon’s creative communities and globally. Working independently, they arrived at two resonant themes: Revolution and Transmission.

>>link in bio: Read the full issue and subscribe to receive a limited-edition artist print

@sarahjdiver @societysocietysociety @helenscostume @oldfashionedgaragegallery #hannahkrafcik #jonismith @goodsilence @mncatalano @ghostyboi #callumangus @pablovcazares @clairevoon @anoutrecordings #haileycook @susanseubert @kaackattack @raisin_consciousness @sam.tam.ham @j_le___ @rgburrell @allieteps @lisanicolejarrett @stephenvitiello @marcusfischer @jiamirkh #lindakjohnson @criticalconversations.art by @lumit

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CFG-20260717
Look 9 Lumi Tan @lumit
Lumi can both recite Shigeko Kubota’s words verbatim and school you on video art or performance while looking cunty with a stole made out of teddy bears. ᯓ✮

Vision: @cfgny2
Lookbook Photography: @davidbrandongeeting
Styling: @avenagallagher
Styling Coordinator: @willum.iv
Hair: @Kazukatahira
Makeup: @souhi_lee @milkmakeup
Nails: @c_ielle
Shoes: @marsell.official
Eyewear: @mykitaofficial @akila.la
Jewelry: @lauralombardi @hera_jwlry @hannahjewett._ @jwoo___________
Sound: @l_y_d_o
Lighting: @s.arai__
Movement: @elliot_reed_laboratories
Dramaturg/PR: @cyntheticpleasures
Amant PR: @nothingobstacle
Kitchen PR: @purplepr
Stage Management: @buffysierra
Production: @amant.arts @thekitchen_nyc
Catering: @h31.syk @bong.nyc @puredegrees taken in Amant by @lumit

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Celebrating 🔟 years of @cfgny2 ❣️❣️❣️this performance had it all: labor, looks, gossip, herbs, the not so vaguely Asian video art history, teddy bears, and beautiful people tending to every part of the production. Congrats @tin20000 Daniel and @chiiikinfat on a crazy year, it’s been amazing to see what you’ve built over a decade!! 📹💕✨ special thanks to @ang.pdf my former but forever Kitchen colleague who has a future as the next Downtown Julie Brown 💄

Vision: @cfgny2
Styling: @avenagallagher
Styling Coordinator: @willum.iv
Hair: @Kazukatahira
Makeup: @souhi_lee @milkmakeup
Nails: @c_ielle
Shoes: @marsell.official
Eyewear: @mykitaofficial @akila.la
Jewelry: @lauralombardi @hera_jwlry @hannahjewett._
Lookbook Photography: @davidbrandongeeting
BTS Photography: @pablogonzez
Performance Photography: @rk_co_image
Event Photography: @anaisest_
Sound: @l_y_d_o
Lighting: @s.arai__
Movement: @elliot_reed_laboratories
Dramaturg/PR: @cyntheticpleasures
Amant PR: @nothingobstacle
Kitchen PR: @purplepr
Stage Management: @buffysierra
Production: @amant.arts @thekitchen_nyc
Catering: @h31.syk @bong.nyc @puredegrees

Documentation of CFGNY, CFG-20260717, 2026. Images courtesy of CFGNY; Amant, Brooklyn, NY; and The Kitchen, New York, NY. taken in Amant by @lumit

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The wait is finally over! We are thrilled to announce the participating artists for the 2026 Converge 45 citywide triennial: Here, To you, Now, curated by Lumi Tan.

Opening August 27 and continuing through the fall, 28 artists will activate 16 venues across Portland with new commissions and recent work.

Inspired by the words of Ursula K. Le Guin, Here, To you, Now explores the beauty of impermanence and the power of gathering to make meaning together.

Stay tuned as we share more about these incredible artist projects in the coming months. Head to the link in our bio to read the full press release and learn more! 🔗

#Converge45 #PortlandArt #HereToYouNow #C45Triennial #PDXArts LumiTan ContemporaryArt taken in Portland, Oregon by @lumit

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5 months ago

Still processing how @anhqvo @mauranguyendonohue and I made “We Exist in the Ambivalence of those Motherfuckers” happen. We’re a trio of collaborators who didn’t really know each other, brought together by mutual respect and a Viet Kieu drive to make something we wanted to see and learn from, 50 years “after” the Vietnam War. I tend to quote Anh all the time, but I think they summed it best up with “We’re all really good at improvising.”

Last year I left Saigon right before Tết, the end of research trip that Anh, maura and @dotuonglinh and I self-organized, self-funded, and improvised the whole way. We entered the new year, with a new regime at home taking control at rapid speed, and came back to @turrelljames and the team at @performance.space.new.york with new ideas. 🌀Improvising only works when everyone takes part. We couldn’t have asked for better partners than Performance Space and their incredible team, @jlubinlevy and everyone at @performancejournal_mr, and more than anyone, the artists at the heart of this project, Nhi Lê @im.nhi.le Đoàn Thanh Toàn @revolutionarywetpuppy333 Lại Diệu Hà @laidieuha and Vũ Đức Toàn @vvuductoan. It was such an honor to have them in New York, and a miracle that it happened at this politically brutal time.

Since November, we have organized or participated in 9 public programs (I may have lost count at some point) and released a journal with over 20 contributors. We always said we wanted to prepare an audience to receive the artists, and, somehow, we did. The focus of the audience in the theater demonstrated a real desire for diasporic connection across generations (see my mom in the background of Thanh Toan’s performance 🥹) and is just part of a swell of energy that I know will continue to be present in New York. 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 taken in Performance Space New York by @lumit

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8 months ago

🗻 For two weeks, Đoàn Thanh Toàn, Vũ Đức Toàn, Nhi Lê, and Lại Diệu Hà, four performance artists from Hanoi and Saigon, have been in residence at Performance Space New York. On Thursday, February 5th, the “We Exist in the Ambivalence of Those Motherfuckers” residency culminates in a series of explorations and activations throughout our theaters.

📅 Thursday, Feb 5th, 7PM
🎟️ Limited tickets available through the link in our bio. Waitlist will be available at the box office at 6pm.

“We Exist in the Ambivalence of Those Motherfuckers” has taken shape as part of a broader series of events featuring talks, screenings, publications, and more, collaboratively organized during the fall and winter with Wesleyan Center For the Arts, Hunter College Dance, Asian Art Archive in America, Center for Art, Research and Alliances, Movement Research MELT, Creative Action Network, and NYU IFA – organized by Anh Vo, Lumi Tan, and maura nguyễn donohue. 🖤
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📸: Justin J. Wee (@djdumpling) taken in Performance Space New York by @lumit

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Gender, Autonomy, and Performance in Vietnam: An Evening with Lại Diệu Hà and Nhi Lê
Tuesday, February 3 at 6:00pm
📍1 E 78th Street

Join us for an intergenerational conversation on performance in Vietnam with two prominent artists: Lại Diệu Hà (b. 1976, Hà Nội) and Nhi Lê (b. 1993, Ho Chi Minh City), moderated by curator Lumi Tan and the IFA’s Catherine Quan Damman.

Part of the larger series We Exist... organized by Tan, maura nguyễn donohue, and Anh Vo.

Please note RSVP is required; link in bio.

Image Captions:

Lại Diệu Hà, Rise, 2010. Still from video documentation. Collection of Nguyen Art Foundation.

Nhi Lê, The Nest, 2019. Performance documentation. Courtesy of the artist. A performer wearing an outfit of teal feathers is under a spotlight, their back turned to the camera. taken in James B. Duke House by @lumit

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Departing from the mainstream commemoration and reflection by Vietnam and the United States of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, Anh Vo (@anhqvo), maura nguyễn donohue (@mauranguyendonohue), and Lumi Tan (@lumit) co-program a month-long residency of debut performances, conversations, and provocations in Performance Space New York’s theaters, aptly titled “We Exist in the Ambivalence of Those Motherfuckers”.

The title of the project comes from unreleased lyrics by Ngoc Dai, a former soldier turned avant-garde composer, inferring that a radical existence can be both a refusal of the ambivalence of those in power, and enabled by that same ambivalence.

We Exist in the Ambivalence of Those Motherfuckers is a part of a broader series of events featuring talks, screenings, publications, and more, collaboratively organized between organizations during the fall and winter seasons. Find a schedule of public progamming on the second slide or our website!
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🗓️ Jan. 27 - Feb. 5 | Residency & Performance
📌 Check out website for ticketing and programming updates! taken in Performance Space New York by @lumit

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9 months ago

We’re starting the year off strong with our first Making Space event of the year! This Sunday, January 11, Artistic Director of Performance Space NY @turrelljames, convenes an international roster of artists making daring work in the face of censorship and political backlash. Participants include Obie Award–winning performance artist and JACK co‑founder Jennifer Kidwell, multi‑hyphenate artist and activist @therealnarcissister, and interdisciplinary curator and writer @lumit.

🔗 For tickets and information, click the link in our bio. taken in Park Avenue Armory by @lumit

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Congrats @topicalcream on participating in Art Basel Miami Beach’s magazine sector with the first ever print issue! 🌀🌀🌀It’s an incredible way to close out my year as Editor-in-Residence and I’m extremely belated in thanking @lyndsy_welgos and @elizabeth.wiet for shepherding me through this year with care and open minds. And what a venerable list of contributors who responded to the invitations with the same spirit, candor and experimentation: @alessandrrraaa @deliadelianyc @q_u_o_r_i @mariana___fernandez @notarriving @allieteps #IndiraAllegra @kthych_ @wendylvogel #WhitneyClaflin @seta_c_m with a print exclusive by @maymakki1 @the_yam_mam 🌀🌀🌀🌀
Last video of the legend and second cover star Karen Finley burning the house down at the issue release @artistsspace a few weeks ago 🔥🔥🔥🔥
An honor to share the room with every one of these brilliant minds. by @lumit

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10 months ago

First image: An empty set awaiting a work-in-progress showing of @willjrawls [siccer] at @themomentary for curators from @picapdx @ontheboards @mcachicago @thekitchen_nyc in 2022, after four years of preparation and an interruption by a worldwide pandemic. Second image: a bow @performance.space.new.york that reflects the years of working together, the looseness and play that can only be achieved with true love and trust in spaces and people. [siccer] has taught me about the dedication to making work in precarity, and how the precarity never ends, so the work never ends. Everyone kept moving, institutions kept shifting, and we’re all still here and so lucky that [siccer] finally made it back to New York after 8 years 💚
So many congratulations to Will, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste @crovvns, keyon gaskin, jess pretty, @holland.andrews, Katrina Reid @kattyrealness and Kemi Adeyemi, dramaturg 💚
Third image-[siccer] the album! Please keep supporting this project and its forthcoming book with @wendyssubway! by @lumit

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