Sight/Geist Series
Li-Ming Hu: Can it be I’m not meant to play this part?
Performance & Discussion
Thursday, October 26, 2023
6-8pm
The 8th Floor
17 W 17th Street, NYC
Performance still courtesy of the artist.
Combining narration, reenactment, found footage, karaoke, animation and a sprinkling of augmented reality, Li-Ming Hu’s Can it be I’m not meant to play this part? explores representation, identity and cultural production through the artist’s experiences as a professional actor and emerging artist, in conversation with key moments in the history of Asian American theater.
This program is part of the second season of Sight/Geist, a series at The 8th Floor that supports local emerging film and performance artists. Doors will open at 6pm with The House Edge partially on view. The performance will begin by 6:30pm, to be followed by an artist discussion and Q&A led by George Bolster, Curator at the Foundation. All of our events are free and open to the public, with RSVPs encouraged. Navigate here for information about visiting and accessing our space. Email us with any questions.
Li-Ming Hu is an interdisciplinary artist and former Power Ranger from Aotearoa/New Zealand who is currently based in New York City. Often employing a carnivalesque sensibility, her work engages with the imperatives of our high performance culture, and draws on her experiences in the entertainment industry to explore the relationships between cultural production and the performance of subjectivities. She has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and held residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Flux Factory and the International Studio and Curatorial Program, NYC. li-minghu.com
Image description: An appropriated film still in which three Asian women in traditional dress and colorful makeup gaze at the camera, the artist’s own face superimposed in the center.