{"id":6769,"date":"2017-10-11T06:53:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T10:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=6769"},"modified":"2018-05-25T03:10:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:10:13","slug":"michelle-lai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/michelle-lai\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Lai"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4140\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6769-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/michellelai.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/michellelai.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/michellelai.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6776 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai.jpg?resize=297%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai.jpg?resize=297%2C300&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai.jpg?resize=768%2C777&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai.jpg?resize=1012%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1012w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai.jpg?resize=696%2C704&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai.jpg?resize=1068%2C1080&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai.jpg?resize=415%2C420&amp;ssl=1 415w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai.jpg?w=1999&amp;ssl=1 1999w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MLai.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/>Michelle Shiu-lin Lai\u00a0is 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 &#8220;This Mouth and the Space of Nothing&#8221; 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\u2019s Venice-based Body Weather Laboratory (2009-present). <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Excerpts of Linear Ghost @ the Bluewhale: Improvisatory collaboration of artist\/musicians:\u00a0Robert 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 style=\"color: #000000;\">A-Stigmatism, Diavolo Brewery, multi-media collab poetic narratvie titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/79633325\">Stigmatic Mountains: Sleeping Position 2&#8243; by Michelle Lai<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><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 style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">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><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6777\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6777 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo1_16faces.jpg?resize=696%2C696&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo1_16faces.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo1_16faces.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo1_16faces.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo1_16faces.jpg?resize=696%2C696&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo1_16faces.jpg?resize=420%2C420&amp;ssl=1 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6777\" 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 \u201cT Memorial\u201d event (a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing China) at ARC in Pasadena, California.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6778\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6778\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6778 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai.jpg?resize=640%2C964&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai.jpg?resize=680%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai.jpg?resize=768%2C1156&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai.jpg?resize=696%2C1048&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai.jpg?resize=1068%2C1608&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai.jpg?resize=279%2C420&amp;ssl=1 279w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Photo2_16faces_mlai.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6778\" 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 \u201cT Memorial\u201d 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>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/michellelai.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listMichelle Shiu-lin Lai\u00a0is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary performance artist whose work transitions between movement, text, and image. 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