YOSHIKO
CHUMA & THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS
Newsletter November 29, 2011
Japanese Translation of this page
The School of Hard Knocks PRESENTS
Occupation Layer: PALESTINE
An
installation with performances
December
7 – 10, 2011
Installation
by Yoshiko
Chuma
Photographs
by Robert
Flynt
with
segments from 6
Seconds in Ramallah
Concept
and Direction: Yoshiko
Chuma
Performers:
Yoshiko
Chuma, Saori Tsukada & Sophia Harb
128
Rivington Street
New
York, NY 10002
212.674.0244
www.galleryonetwentyeight.org
GALLERY
HOURS
Wednesday
– Saturday, December 7-10; 1-6pm
Opening
Reception on December 7 from 6-7pm
PERFORMANCES
Wednesday
– Saturday, December 7-10; 7-9pm
Suggested
Admission $10
LIMITED SEATING. Reservations recommended.
Email nakamurakaya@gmail.com
6
Seconds in Ramallah,
a collaboration between Yoshiko
Chuma
and
members of the El-Funoun Dance Troupe (Palestine), premiered in April
2011 at the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival with additional engagements
in Jordan and Lebanon. The project continues Chuma’s lifetime fascination
with cross-cultural dialogue. Chuma first came to the Middle East in 2008
to work with artists and of various socioeconomic backgrounds and geographic
origins from Jordan. This led to the fortuitous meeting of Chuma
with members of El-Funoun, which developed into a three-year project started
last spring. Robert
Flynt
worked
simultaneously alongside Chuma interacting with the members of the El-Funoun
Dance Troupe to generate a body of photographs.
Together
with longtime collaborator Saori
Tsukada
and
Palestinian-born Sophia
Harb, Chuma
will share segments from 6
Seconds in Ramallah that
address, in abstract terms, the notion of dislocation in general. Using
the notion of Palestine as a mirror to the devastation in Japan, Chuma
explores the challenge in maintaining identity separate from one’s homeland
in the face of cultural or psychological alienation.
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