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Fernanda D’Agostino, Felicia Lowe 劉詠嫦, Miche Wong and Knxout, bring together their diverse skills in video installation/experimental media, documentary filmmaking, dance/choreography, and sonic arts to create a monumentally scaled video installation, immersing visitors in a dreamscape of Chinatown past, present and future. Additional performances by Judy Chan, Lisa and Juju Kusanagi, Chan Moly Sam, Mariko Ohno, and Beverly Wong.

Movement, Memory, Mirage investigates how culture threads its way across generations and continents, resonating in our subconscious experience of the current moment. Using dance, movement practices and ritual as a constant within an ever shifting stream of consciousness, Movement, Memory, Mirage takes us from traditional practices and shadowy memories of the ancestors, to the cutting edge expressions of the current generation. The themes and questions explored in the work include the complex "American" identity and its inherent contradictions and dualities, multilayered histories that are embedded within cultural landscapes, the folding and unfolding of experiences, and the ways in which culture carries, shifts, and expands on specific narratives and legacies towards future generations.

Historic footage is interwoven into the project such as Seeing America's Greatest Chinatown (1912), China and the Chinese (1917), Golden Gate City (1938), Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Dance (1965), Chinatown by Neon (Prelinger Archives-undated), as well as home movies from the archives of CAAM. These images are layered with contemporary footage drawn from Felicia Lowe's Shirley's Hope Chest featuring Miche Wong, Fernanda D'Agostino's Celestial Navigations, and from original performances recorded live via SKYPE NDI interface with Wong in D'Agostino's Liminal Performance Space.

Fernanda D’Agostino is a public art and new media installation artist based in Portland, OR. Her practice focuses on the intersections between sculpture, installation, creative coding and video mapping on several programming platforms. D'Agostino has been featured nationally and internationally in numerous public art and new media festivals and exhibitions. In 2018, she collaborated with Collection Action Studio, led by Curator Justin Hoover, to produce large-scale outdoor projection works in San Francisco and Hong Kong. Her Borderline series of installations was exhibited in 2018-19 at 1A Space Hong Kong, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Open Signal, and Portland Art Museum (all Portland, OR). Most recently, she was featured as part of Venice VR Expanded-a division of the Venice Film Festival and Venice Biennale. D’Agostino’s work has been recognized by the Flintridge Foundation, Bonnie Bronson Fellowship, Andy Warhol Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation, Ford Family Foundation, 4Culture TechSpecific Award, Sacks Foundation of the University of Pennsylvania, National Endowment for the Arts and with the Oregon Arts Commission Artist Fellowship. D’Agostino is co-founder and co-director with Sarah Turner of Mobile Projection Unit. MPU is a creative and curatorial platform and a supporter of social justice movements through volunteer tech support. D’Agostino is currently completing work for the 2022 Environmental Biennale Lisbon, Portugal. https://www.fernandadagostino.com/

Felicia Lowe 劉詠嫦 is an award winning independent media producer, director, and writer with 40+ years of production experience. Her documentaries; Chinese Couplets, Carved in Silence, Chinatown and China: Land of My Father reveal the unique experiences of Chinese in America while underscoring our common humanity. All her films have been broadcast on PBS and are used in classrooms across the country. Her recent works include leading a creative team to produce 17 videos for the Gold Mountain: Chinese Californian Stories exhibit for the California Museum in Sacramento and Pacific Gateway, a 360° virtual reality video on Angel Island Immigration Station. A past board president of the Angel Island Immigration Foundation and descendent of Angel Island detainees, she is gratified to have played a role in the preservation and restoration of this important National Historic Landmark. www.lowedownproductions.com

Born and raised in the Bay Area, Miche Wong is a dancer, educator, and choreographer. Seasoned in that order, it's led her to join Guangdong Modern Dance Company, Garret +Moulton Productions, Santa Barbara Dance Theater, Ziru Dance, and most recently, ODC. She brings her well-rounded experience in the field to the classes and workshops she teaches throughout California and abroad. Wong's choreographic work has been shown in the Beijing International Dance Festival, Silicon Valley Dance Festival, Asian Art Museum, Dance Mission Theater and Cowell Theater. Follow Miche Wong on Instagram @miche_moves.

Born and raised in San Francisco, Knxout is a multidisciplinary artist who creates everything from music to video to interactive music tools. His musical styles are as fluid as the water flowing around him from the Pacific Ocean waves to the waters of the Bay Area. Knxout's latest release, Foggy, creates a blend of beats with colorful chill sound design, trumpet, drums, and nature sounds. Foggy is a tribute to the beauty and cinematic scenery of Knxout's hometown, San Francisco. As Knxout's second album, he steps closer to pop-inspired synths and ambient sounds mixed with hip-hop and electronic grooves. Follow Knxout on Instagram @knxout.

Documentary and experimental filmmaker Chet Canlas was invited by the Center of Asian American Media, CAAM, to create a presentation from its collection of home movies that would include images from, and the perspective of, the Manilatown Heritage Foundation and its archive. The idea would allow complete artist freedom in a collaboration. The result is a panoramic juxtaposition of imagery capturing the essence of the Asian American legacy, simply "as Americans." An obvious idea that cannot be understated. Through the primary use of montage, Chet Canlas orchestrates from the incredible library of digitized home movie footage from CAAM. Within changing abstract landscapes and transitions, a wall of gateways open simultaneously like a great time machine. A honeycomb lens of Asian America.

With the support of McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, Danny Clay and Theresa Wong created a score for Memories to Light utilizing a sonic collage of environmental sounds, audio contributions from the community, and composed fragments for various instruments. A live performance of the score, combining this sound material with real-time improvisations on cello, voice, and laptop, was performed in conjunction with McEvoy Arts' 2021 exhibition Next to You.

Fernanda D’Agostino will collaborate with Canlas and Remington in designing a spatialization projection of the film.

Chet Canlas is a San Francisco-based independent filmmaker and cinematographer who has produced, written and directed documentaries about San Francisco’s Asian American history and traditional Philippine culture. Canlas joined the CAAM family in 2010 when he and his band, the "Autonomous Region" won the First Locus Arts Do-it-Yourself Video Competition. The band’s "I-Hotel" (International Hotel) music video also premiered at the 26th SF International Asian American Film Festival. Canlas is the director of the film "Al Robles Express" (2019). Noted as one of his favorites, it features five Filipino Americans returning to their motherland to find their indigenous roots of creativity.

Tony Remington, born in Manila as Antonio Coronado Remington, came to the United States in 1952. He grew up in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury area and currently resides in the Bay Area. During his studies at San Francisco State University, his interest and involvement in Ethnic Studies piqued. A self-taught photographer, Remington has compiled a large body of personal photographs. His major essays include: The Manongs of the Post-International Hotel, San Francisco Street Photography & Community Events, Street Photography in the Philippines, The Philippine Basketball League. As a member of the "Al Robles Express”, a 2019 film documentary by Caroline Cabading and Chet Canlas, Remington expanded his images of the indigenous mountain peoples of the Cordilleras. In 2017 as the featured artist of Manilatown Heritage Foundation's 50th anniversary, Remington began formally painting from his photographs. Also practicing as an experienced commercial photographer, his interests focus on concepts relating to "humanistic photojournalism" which are inspired by the great photographers of film Halcyon Days.

Danny Clay is a composer and educator whose work is deeply rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and the sheer joy of making things with people of all ages and levels of artistic experience. As a composer he has collaborated with Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, Third Coast Percussion, the San Francisco Girls Chorus, Wu Man, Volti, the People's Music School of Chicago, Sarah Cahill, and printmaker Jon Fischer. Clay’s work has been performed nationally and internationally and has been presented by the deYoung Museum, San Francisco; San Francisco Performances; McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco; and the Meany Center for the Arts, Seattle, among others. He has taught at Stanford University, San Francisco State University, the Crowden Music Center, and Zion Lutheran School in San Francisco. In 2020, he designed and implemented the curriculum for Kronos Quartet's pilot music program for third graders in the San Francisco Unified School District titled "Kronos Music: DIY!" Clay works and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Theresa Wong is a composer, cellist, and vocalist active at the intersection of music, experimentation, improvisation, and the synergy of multiple disciplines. Her works include As We Breathe, an installed song commissioned by Long Beach Opera for the 2020 Songbook, and She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees for The Future Is Female project, among others. Her multimedia piece, The Unlearning (Tzadik), premiered in 2013 at Roulette, Brooklyn, and was also presented at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Current and past commissions include works for Splinter Reeds, The San Francisco Girls Chorus, Vajra Voices, and Del Sol String Quartet. Wong has shared her work internationally at venues including Fondation Cartier, Paris; Cafe Oto, London; Festival de Arte y Ópera Contemporánea, Morelia, Mexico; and The Stone, New York. Wong is a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow and has also been an artist-in- residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Lijiang Studio, and Yaddo. She currently works and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mark Baugh-Sasaki’s site-specific installation, Granite City, explores his own connection as well as the Chinese American experience, to the Sierra Nevada mountains and the immigrant experience in California. Upon coming to California in 1904 from Japan, Baugh-Sasaki’s grandfather began working on the railroads near Reno, NV. The installation uses rocks, in particular granite, as a tie between the Sierra Nevada mountains and Chinatown. His juxtaposition of the art forms of suiseki and Chinese scholar rocks with general construction techniques and the architecture of the site creates a tension between the site and the history and experience that the materials represent.

Mark Baugh-Sasaki is an interdisciplinary artist whose art practice focuses on our connection to place through embedded narratives in both the built and the natural landscape. He received his BFA in 2004 from Carnegie Mellon University and his MFA in 2017 from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally; most recently at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2020-21. He has been a resident at Headlands Center for the Arts and an Honorary James Irvine Fellow at Djerassi Resident Artist Program. He is a recipient of The Hopper Prize and the Cadogan Award, and his work is included in the public collections at Recology Artist in Residence Program and the University of San Francisco.