{"id":729,"date":"2017-10-11T10:53:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T10:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/michelle-lai\/"},"modified":"2018-08-19T19:25:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T19:25:17","slug":"michelle-lai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/michelle-lai\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Lai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6776 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai.jpg 297w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai-1.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai-2.jpg 1012w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai-3.jpg 696w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai-4.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai-5.jpg 415w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai-6.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai-7.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Michelle Shiu-lin Lai&nbsp;is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary performance artist whose work transitions between movement, text, and image. Lai investigates the primal poetics of space through a process-based extraction of text through body memory\/history, &amp; butoh influenced sensitivity training. Lai recently performed her work in the debut of band Linear Ghost at the Bluewhale, Downtown LA- a collaboration with artist musicians Robert Jacobson, Breeze Smith, Darryl Tewes, &amp; Tim Maher. Lai performed solo work &ldquo;This Mouth and the Space of Nothing&rdquo; at A+D Museum downtown LA (2016) and frequently collaborates with a range of artists across different media including film\/ video, visual, sculpture, &amp; sound. Lai has created works in performance art trio PO1 with Heyward Bracey and Kio Griffith, presenting a series of multi-media explorations of body, self, time, &amp; identity. She has performed in works at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, the UCLA Fowler Museum, the John Paul Getty Museum, Hammer Museum, Grand Park, among other institutions and sites in California, the Eastern United States, &amp; in temple ceremony abroad at Junjungan Village, Ubud, Bali. Lai practices architecture and continues to train and perform with Oguri &amp; Roxanne Steinberg&rsquo;s Venice-based Body Weather Laboratory (2009-present). <\/span><span>Excerpts of Linear Ghost @ the Bluewhale: Improvisatory collaboration of artist\/musicians:&nbsp;Robert Jacobson: guitar &amp; bulgarian tambura. Breeze Smith: drums. Darryl Tewes: bass. Tim Maher: drums. Michelle Lai: poetry &amp; movement (Michelle Lai performing her original poetic texts: <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/237707759\">This Mouth &amp; the Space of Nothing &amp; 5 million Dollar Chandelier in a Cave)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>A-Stigmatism, Diavolo Brewery, multi-media collab poetic narratvie titled &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/79633325\">Stigmatic Mountains: Sleeping Position 2&Prime; by Michelle Lai<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/120430216\">16 Faces, ARC Pasadena, multi-media collab (comm. 25th anniversary Tiananman massacre<\/a>)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span>The book mentioned in the interview was The Peregrine, here is a link to book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-beauty-of-j-a-bakers-the-peregrine\">The Peregrine<\/a> by J.A. Baker.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6777 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo1_16faces.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo1_16faces-1.jpg 960w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo1_16faces-2.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo1_16faces-3.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo1_16faces-4.jpg 696w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo1_16faces-5.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A multi-media collaboration by PO1: dance\/choreography Michelle Lai, dance\/choreography Heyward Bracey and video artist Kio Griffith. photography: Stella Chong 16 Faces was developed as a part of the 2014 &ldquo;T Memorial&rdquo; event (a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing China) at ARC in Pasadena, California.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6778 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"964\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai.jpg 680w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai-1.jpg 199w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai-2.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai-3.jpg 696w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai-4.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai-5.jpg 279w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai-6.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A multi-media collaboration by PO1: dance\/choreography Michelle Lai, dance\/choreography Heyward Bracey and video artist Kio Griffith. photography: Stella Chong 16 Faces was developed as a part of the 2014 &ldquo;T Memorial&rdquo; event (a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing China) at ARC in Pasadena, California.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Shiu-lin Lai&nbsp;is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary performance artist whose work transitions between movement, text, and image. Lai investigates the primal poetics of space through a process-based extraction of text through body memory\/history, &amp; butoh influenced sensitivity training. Lai recently performed her work in the debut of band Linear Ghost at the Bluewhale, Downtown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}