For You Audio Tours brochure

OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, we met with several Asian
American and Pacific Islander folk based in the San Francisco
Bay Area to share meals and tips, like how best to enjoy a
persimmon and strategies for focusing one's rage. We heard:
Two lovers meet at the 1939 World’s Fair Japan Pavilion and craft
a dream of importing beautiful things. A mother’s knuckles swell
with arthritis as she brushes her very long hair. The spiritual revival
of San Francisco’s Chinatown can be felt at Clay and Grant as rolling
bags strike the pavement, hammering out new forms of the
neighborhood under the buzz of gossip and neon lights. Persimmons,
we are told, are best enjoyed when they’re slightly bruised and
delicate to the touch.
A selection of artworks from this exhibition served as our
conversation prompts—and as with any good time spent
between new friends, we found ourselves journeying into the
personal, the mundane, and the fantastic. From these recorded
conversations, we devised three audio tours that share a life
with the exhibited works, not as descriptions, but as a chorus of
lived experience that brings space to memory through visceral
detail. Your guides include Masako Takahashi (artist featured in
East of the Pacific), David Yoshimura (chef, Nisei), David Mas
Masumoto (writer and farmer), Philip Kan Gotanda
(playwright), Hoi Leung (curator, Chinese Culture Center of San
Francisco), Bijun Liang (installation and media artist), and Leon
Sun (artist and activist). Original musical compositions by Werd
Pace transport us across medium, time, and space. Through
these unique sonic tracks, we offer you three windows through
which to view these artworks in the exhibition.
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AUDIO TOURS
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For You is ERIKA CHONG SHUCH and RYAN TACATA, with
WERD PACE. They create original, participatory performances
that bring strangers together for intimate encounters. For You
projects range from one-to-one performances to large-scale,
evening-length theatrical works. Each performance is grounded
in the lived experiences of participant-collaborators. Their works
include First Things First (2019-20, the Momentary), Artists and
Elders (2020-current, online), Dr. G.’s Bingo Extravaganza (2022,
Oregon Shakespeare Festival), and The Welcoming (forthcoming).
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TOUR ONE
TOUR TWO
TOUR THREE
Masako Takahashi
A Dinner Party in Chinatown
Lush
1
MIKI HAYAKAWA
Sleeping Man, 1926
1
HISAKO HIBI
Evening, c. late 1970s
1
TOSHIO AOKI
Persimmons in an
Indian Basket, 1895
2
WING KWONG TSE
Hands, c. late 1970s
END END END
5
6
2
JADE FON WOO
Clay and Grant,
San Francisco Chinatown,
c. 1943–49
2
THEODORE WORES
A Lesson in Flower
Arrangement, c. 1893
5
3
WING KWONG TSE
Eva Wong, c. 1954–59
3
DONG KINGMAN
Chinatown, Clay
and Grant, c. 1950
4
5
HENRY YUZURU
SUGIMOTO
Thoughts of Him, c. 1965
MASAKO
TAKAHASHI
Friendship Series /
Cardinal Points, 2003
3
2
4
START
1
4
5
JADE FON WOO
Lanterns -
S.F. Chinatown,
c. 1943–49
MARTIN WONG
Chinatown Dragon, 1993
6
5
1
2
3
4
START
7
3
4
EMIKO NAKANO
Untitled, 1943
CHIURA OBATA
Tanforan, Mr. S.
Yamamoto, Mr. M.
Kimbara First Vegetable
Raised, 1942
1
2
START
3
4
6
LEO VALLEDOR
Rothkokoro, 1980
6
JADE FON WOO
Chinese Night Club,
c. 1940
5
ROGER SHIMOMURA
Lush Life #2, 2008
7
HENRY YUZURU
SUGIMOTO
Still Life, 1932