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collective projects with Axel Void, Muriel Excalera Pale, Pawel Ryzko, and Anna Pochmara.

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“The Smallest Sound in the Smallest Space”

From 2022-2024 I served as the dramaturg for the development of Bryce McClendon’s, “The Smallest Sound in the Smallest Space,” a play full of operatic repertoire and questions about memory, art, bodies, and power.

The WHY Collective produced the workshop premiere at Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theater in 2023 and a staged reading at Lincoln Center in 2024.

I also painted the base image, “De ce silence profond,” that the team used for the poster above. Check out p.27-29 of this Q&A with playwright Bryce McClendon if you’re curious about the conversation behind the commission.

I contributed to translation and editing of select sections of Wang Yun’s「靜坐之後」, published by Singing Dragon Press in 2021 as Returning from Qingcheng Mountain: Melding Daoist Practices into Daily Life.

Wang Yun’s book reached #1 in Amazon’s Hot New Releases in several categories in the US, UK, France, Canada and Australia.

Learn more about Modern Wisdom Translation Group here.

Xin She Kavalan Tribe & Iris Hseih

In 2019 I collaborated with artist Iris Hsieh and the Kavalan Tribe elders and children of Xin She Village in Hualian, Taiwan on a community art project that documented and celebrated the work and lore of Kavalan shamanesses.

The children created a short film and book, which Iris and I produced. The film,「女巫見習生」 ("The Shamaness's Apprentice") won an honorable mention at the 2019 Taiwan International Children's Film Festival.

In 2019, I produced, wrote, directed, and acted in a series of slightly unhinged videos for beginner students of Chinese

Check out the full playlist here to see me having conversations with a dumpster, a tree, and a miniature pony using only the 150 most basic words in Chinese!

I also produced a series of news broadcasts for more advanced learners of Chinese

Most of this series is no longer available online, but this one is both still accessible and unsettlingly relevant.

And I made a few shorts for the ChinesePod “How to Say” series

“Our Future Came from the School”

In 2016 I edited and contributed to the creative direction of this short documentary by visual anthropologist Tami Blumenfield. The film tells the story of the Yangjuan Primary School, one star in the constellation of stories to be told about development, intergenerational gulfs, and tensions between foreign and domestic investment in rural China.