https://ellehong.com L홍 Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:25:39 +0000 https://ellehong.com en https://ellehong.com/Home Wed, 03 Nov 2021 18:41:48 +0000 L홍 https://ellehong.com/Home L홍 dance lightness has a call that’s hard to hear. (2022) Bull in a China Closet (2021) The Girl Box (2020) GET OFF (2017) You First (2015) media arts The Kate Bush Factor (2022) Terms of Use (2019) UTOPIA01_SH3.wrld (2016) writing about / cv vimeo soundcloud instagram subscribe to my newsletter! https://ellehong.com/lightness-has-a-call-that-s-hard-to-hear-2022 Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:05:43 +0000 L홍 https://ellehong.com/lightness-has-a-call-that-s-hard-to-hear-2022 lightness has a call that’s hard to hear.&nbsp;(2022) Originally co-presented by Art Gym Denver &amp; square product theatre Choreography, Text, &amp; Performance: Elle Hong Stage Manager/LBO: Rosie Glasscock Lighting Design: Nick Cozzo Dramaturgy: LA Samuelson Premiered at Art Gym Denver (Denver, CO), April 2022. &nbsp; The original creation of lightness has a call that’s hard to hear. was supported through an Art Gym Create Award Residency, with additional production and performance support from square product theatre and Nick Cozzo | Lighting Design. | This work is adaptable for half-evening length (approx. 30-40 minutes) and abridged (approx. 8-15 minutes) performances. Video examples available upon request: ellehong[dot]art[at]gmail[dot]com. ----------------------- “Well, darkness has a hunger that's insatiable/And lightness has a call that's hard to hear.” —Indigo Girls, “Closer to Fine” A dance as shadow work, lightness has a call that’s hard to hear. asks: What do we learn by inhabiting and confronting our own repression? What parts of ourselves do we hide either intrinsically or extrinsically? What are we afraid to do—and how might doing the scary thing set us free? There’s just something about her I don’t like about myself. What do we project onto others, that then becomes telling of our own inner desires? lightness... logs transformation in real time; it documents a desire for change, before and after that change has occurred. How does dance hold space for the mutability of being, shifting and adapting as we do? This is a dance about the things only you can do for yourself—and the moment where you realize there are some things that only you can do for yourself. Through movement, text, and audience choral orchestration, the work sets forth intentions for embodying lightness while acknowledging its inextricable ties to darkness and heaviness. Y / / Y / / Y / / Y / / <img width="2575" height="2000" width_o="2575" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de1b5b173b1ff2127751f73dd0eefeb3bebb626f7926778133950a75fd9c64f0/_MG_0571.png" data-mid="131096549" border="0" alt="Photo by Madison Palffy" data-caption="Photo by Madison Palffy" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de1b5b173b1ff2127751f73dd0eefeb3bebb626f7926778133950a75fd9c64f0/_MG_0571.png" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/affa82897daa8c62ebfd73868d0e1b0afb7fa32c00ba501edb910ba198b1b361/DSC09654.JPG" data-mid="156732935" border="0" alt="Photo by Gretchen LaBorwit" data-caption="Photo by Gretchen LaBorwit" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/affa82897daa8c62ebfd73868d0e1b0afb7fa32c00ba501edb910ba198b1b361/DSC09654.JPG" /> <img width="4160" height="6240" width_o="4160" height_o="6240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b82cd53e0ce49debde2da657672e6ff1bed335bcdf63902b66cda6ef9cdbc3e6/31842EE2-BD08-4356-AA2E-91A4FEAF91B0.jpg" data-mid="189347744" border="0" alt="Photo by Danny Hernandez-Martinez" data-caption="Photo by Danny Hernandez-Martinez" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b82cd53e0ce49debde2da657672e6ff1bed335bcdf63902b66cda6ef9cdbc3e6/31842EE2-BD08-4356-AA2E-91A4FEAF91B0.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/761192edb9595491b2860d6b09872fabd820f9751becb13bcb5c924cee3bdef2/DSC09668.JPG" data-mid="156732944" border="0" alt="Photo by Gretchen LaBorwit" data-caption="Photo by Gretchen LaBorwit" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/761192edb9595491b2860d6b09872fabd820f9751becb13bcb5c924cee3bdef2/DSC09668.JPG" /> <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/962f9f17505f73e0e9475b6b0abda2fd1317585982866ece78cc637ee9e5eda6/032111C2-B758-41CF-9515-44D880EBC1F0.jpg" data-mid="189348084" border="0" alt="Photo by Danny Hernandez-Martinez" data-caption="Photo by Danny Hernandez-Martinez" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/962f9f17505f73e0e9475b6b0abda2fd1317585982866ece78cc637ee9e5eda6/032111C2-B758-41CF-9515-44D880EBC1F0.jpg" /> -----Press----- Broadway World: “LIGHTNESS HAS A CALL THAT’S HARD TO HEAR Comes to square product theatre,” by Stephi Wild (Mar. 2022) ︎ https://ellehong.com/Bull-in-a-China-Closet-2021 Wed, 03 Nov 2021 18:44:06 +0000 L홍 https://ellehong.com/Bull-in-a-China-Closet-2021 Bull in a China Closet (2021) Featured in Movement Research | Critical Correspondence. Click to view a conversation between Elle Hong and Allison Hsu on the work. To view the full film, please contact ellehong[dot]art[at]gmail[dot]com Concept, Choreography, Text, Projection Design, and Performance: Elle HongDirector of Photography, Platform Design: Cipriano OrtegaAdditional Performance: Brittney Banaei, Aleighya/AJ Dawkins, Johnny Groebner, Cipriano OrtegaStage Managers: Xaalan Dolence, Anna PillotLighting Design: Nick CozzoAdditional Camera Operators: Nathan Bala, Isabella PoscentePlatform Operator: Nathan BalaSBO: Aleighya/AJ Dawkins, Daniel Grove, Sam MorinCrew: Ruth Goldenberg, Vik PadillaMusic: Charli XCX, Tzusing, M83, Broken Social SceneAn MFA Thesis in Dance at the University of Colorado Boulder. | Bull in a China Closet was supported through funding from the Graduate Research in Dance (GRID) Fund and the&nbsp;Gail Pokoik Scholarship from the University of Colorado Boulder - Department of Theatre &amp; Dance (Boulder, CO). ----------------------- Combining dance/performance, text, and cinéma vérité, Bull in a China Closet* demonstrates the tension and confusion of a person working to exteriorize their interiority, or, working to create an outward-facing image that more closely resembles the image they envision for/of themself. In doing so, the film is rife with moments where the social issues plaguing the artist, which often go unseen, are made transparent and affective for the viewer. In Bull in a China Closet, Elle attempts to give the full fantasy of their idealized gender archetypes, while leaving space to contemplate the process of creating new genders, and ultimately, new worlds.* A “bull in a china shop” refers to “a person who breaks things or who often makes mistakes or causes damage in situations that require careful thinking or behavior” (Merriam-Webster). This adage has been adapted to better reflect the social environments the artist moves through. <img width="2648" height="1484" width_o="2648" height_o="1484" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/093a8ceb3c22fcab06494c55ec92675271b26d0d39c1a7274502306eb333cb12/Screen-Shot-2022-05-16-at-9.39.58-AM.png" data-mid="142775290" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/093a8ceb3c22fcab06494c55ec92675271b26d0d39c1a7274502306eb333cb12/Screen-Shot-2022-05-16-at-9.39.58-AM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1616" width_o="2880" height_o="1616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2909008628438c1ec61163f905534e79b60f44f83f3a6de81875d7bf873d6ad/Screen-Shot-2022-05-16-at-1.14.01-PM.png" data-mid="142775286" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2909008628438c1ec61163f905534e79b60f44f83f3a6de81875d7bf873d6ad/Screen-Shot-2022-05-16-at-1.14.01-PM.png" /> <img width="2500" height="2000" width_o="2500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69b6838d24208b2e825a42d1253539eafee5d305c96ad6be79bbd6bdf42b8742/DSC_0092.png" data-mid="123537113" border="0" alt="Photo by Vik Padilla" data-caption="Photo by Vik Padilla" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69b6838d24208b2e825a42d1253539eafee5d305c96ad6be79bbd6bdf42b8742/DSC_0092.png" /> <img width="5196" height="3262" width_o="5196" height_o="3262" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3db30a8862781aaa06e6d0c5e584a139b9975cf0d19e02bcfb139cd9161237eb/DSC_0052.jpg" data-mid="123537111" border="0" alt="Photo by Vik Padilla" data-caption="Photo by Vik Padilla" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3db30a8862781aaa06e6d0c5e584a139b9975cf0d19e02bcfb139cd9161237eb/DSC_0052.jpg" /> <img width="2880" height="1615" width_o="2880" height_o="1615" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8c83e7304ba199eb06f0de607d9bba793e21e89fd5d98f57558228d4434c203/Screen-Shot-2022-05-16-at-1.16.22-PM.png" data-mid="142775287" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8c83e7304ba199eb06f0de607d9bba793e21e89fd5d98f57558228d4434c203/Screen-Shot-2022-05-16-at-1.16.22-PM.png" /> <img width="5572" height="3702" width_o="5572" height_o="3702" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3fb6370bc834f19522438c5eb8fda85df16bde962f163223228f9b40833d7282/DSC_0191.jpg" data-mid="123813714" border="0" alt="Photo by Vik Padilla" data-caption="Photo by Vik Padilla" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3fb6370bc834f19522438c5eb8fda85df16bde962f163223228f9b40833d7282/DSC_0191.jpg" /> ︎ https://ellehong.com/The-Girl-Box-2020 Wed, 03 Nov 2021 19:11:45 +0000 L홍 https://ellehong.com/The-Girl-Box-2020 The Girl Box (2020) <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ca81ee08ced64b3fdc3e46f64c455cdb2fc26957629ca90c9fd5ca014ca5813/1.jpg" data-mid="123519506" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ca81ee08ced64b3fdc3e46f64c455cdb2fc26957629ca90c9fd5ca014ca5813/1.jpg" /> Photo by Miguel DeLeon Choreography, Performance, Prop Design: Elle HongScenic/Sound Design, Videography: Cipriano OrtegaMusic: Britney Spears, Britney Spears x Charli XCX x THY NEIGHBORThe Girl Box was supported by a Floorspace Studio Residency&nbsp;(Boulder, CO); premiered October 2020. To view the full piece, please contact ellehong[dot]art[at]gmail[dot]com. -----------------------The Girl Box is an experimental performance work choreographed and performed by Elle Hong. Inspired by experiences of indicating their gender on administrative documents, or selecting gender options through online drop-down menus, the artist physicalizes the experience of trans invisibilization and dissonance whence called to identify. Through movement, spoken word, and lip-sync performance, Elle considers the embodied (im)possibilities of “boxing-in” one’s identity: what liberatory somatic frameworks become possible through a commitment towards monolithization? <img width="1044" height="678" width_o="1044" height_o="678" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff4466ade44e020d8a4e43a2d6157793a88bb2d3b89b286513878a8aeeb7e158/Screen-Shot-2020-12-07-at-1.28.26-PM.png" data-mid="124442905" border="0" data-scale="81" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff4466ade44e020d8a4e43a2d6157793a88bb2d3b89b286513878a8aeeb7e158/Screen-Shot-2020-12-07-at-1.28.26-PM.png" /> Choreographer’s Statement: In this dance between a girl and a box, the dancing girl is trans but also identifies as a box. The trans, dancing girl explores various methods of boxing in, or containing, her live body within a cubic performance space. She places herself within the confines of the space’s storefront window, holding her pose like a live mannequin. She places herself inside of a literal storage box such that the box becomes literally anything other than a box: a bathtub, a black hole, a cloak of invisibility. The girl hides inside the box and animates the box from within, the box and girl becoming one. The girl grows tired of being a box; the girl sings about wanting to be a woman, but is both not a girl, and not yet a woman. Throughout the trans-dancing-box-girl’s dance, she works to physicalize the impossibility of making legible her gender performance. Instead, she opts for the messiness of her identificatory performance as made possible through the various containers she places herself within.The girl is a box is a girl. <img width="3000" height="2002" width_o="3000" height_o="2002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e37ecc55d0c23ec63ef6b67c6a7f4dbb250776a125bd63869ce480293e8d27eb/_PIC4365.jpg" data-mid="123519499" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e37ecc55d0c23ec63ef6b67c6a7f4dbb250776a125bd63869ce480293e8d27eb/_PIC4365.jpg" /> <img width="2002" height="3000" width_o="2002" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f992d925c6d628da281b24c255ca31caca0cb2e6a88787d57ce9c486c3719179/_PIC4549.jpg" data-mid="123519502" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f992d925c6d628da281b24c255ca31caca0cb2e6a88787d57ce9c486c3719179/_PIC4549.jpg" /> <img width="2002" height="3000" width_o="2002" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1fd5ea4e6f79ad9ecc1477095bc193dbd14b5a06dac5b24b8eb6a8c536b828f8/_PIC4594.jpg" data-mid="123519503" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1fd5ea4e6f79ad9ecc1477095bc193dbd14b5a06dac5b24b8eb6a8c536b828f8/_PIC4594.jpg" /> <img width="2002" height="3000" width_o="2002" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7477f8c8634b49f9701c1e155c2b169f6feec39c963c1d1fe9cbcc8e9bd5cb8/_PIC4651.jpg" data-mid="123519504" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7477f8c8634b49f9701c1e155c2b169f6feec39c963c1d1fe9cbcc8e9bd5cb8/_PIC4651.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2002" width_o="3000" height_o="2002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d342b8ac35988b2c1a29f70eba2a07bc406ef5f0f3ad1580bcd9a8b2ac660d8/_PIC4688.jpg" data-mid="123519505" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d342b8ac35988b2c1a29f70eba2a07bc406ef5f0f3ad1580bcd9a8b2ac660d8/_PIC4688.jpg" /> Photos by Miguel DeLeon ︎ https://ellehong.com/GET-OFF-2017 Wed, 03 Nov 2021 23:39:56 +0000 L홍 https://ellehong.com/GET-OFF-2017 GET OFF (2017) <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/164e7ee24b35227728b2a5871f520d20a7b14c40cafed0cd3ad6a08a1b5b9c4b/_MG_1302.png" data-mid="123539555" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/164e7ee24b35227728b2a5871f520d20a7b14c40cafed0cd3ad6a08a1b5b9c4b/_MG_1302.png" /> Choreography: Elle Hong in collaboration with Thomas Reid Dancers: Elle Hong &amp; Thomas Reid Lighting Design: Chelsie McPhilimy Photography: Ella Israeli Videography: Brendan PlakeMusic: Oneohtrix Point Never, College, Chromatics, Vanessa Carlton This work was choreographed and presented in conversation with Sarah Mark Mininsohn’s “starry-eyed lizard duets.”Premiered at the Patricelli '92 Theater, Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT), April 2017. ---------------------------------------GET OFF is a two-part, queer/ed&nbsp; pas de deux (French, “dance for two”). Utilizing a heterocentric, recognizable modality as a choreographic framework, GET OFF considers the role of the social body in inscribing hegemonic concepts of aesthetic and sexuality. Two dancers delve into queer-formative memories and spaces: sneaking back into one’s house, parking lots, the club, the woods. What is the impact of one’s history on the dancing body, and how do we perceive history through dance? This work mines the dancing body as archive; it presents an ongoing conversation between how one is trained to be in a body based on external perception, as well as movement potentialities born through committing towards liberation. <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b82fd7401b35f095a6785a461432cb40e87a595da03dd97ca4e73932d4cca88/_MG_1320.png" data-mid="123539557" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b82fd7401b35f095a6785a461432cb40e87a595da03dd97ca4e73932d4cca88/_MG_1320.png" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b5e2c79ec666f4dd16d8da4f178ba3afded8f35d9c431a157b84bf4883073f3/_MG_1301.png" data-mid="161997309" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b5e2c79ec666f4dd16d8da4f178ba3afded8f35d9c431a157b84bf4883073f3/_MG_1301.png" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f7102b3e4ecd8233991a2181da9b30f612885aaa372870a73fdb7359cba6cd7/_MG_1452.png" data-mid="161997306" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f7102b3e4ecd8233991a2181da9b30f612885aaa372870a73fdb7359cba6cd7/_MG_1452.png" /> <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c972420e5a3e225dd55dbfd6b9c213ac9b63a7f90284f44ae82fd48fef6ac2f/_MG_1344.JPG" data-mid="161997317" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c972420e5a3e225dd55dbfd6b9c213ac9b63a7f90284f44ae82fd48fef6ac2f/_MG_1344.JPG" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e772d9d2b31f6613cb4bf156fb75fab1a5f9bc737e6247e618b6e39430d140c/_MG_2053.png" data-mid="161997305" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e772d9d2b31f6613cb4bf156fb75fab1a5f9bc737e6247e618b6e39430d140c/_MG_2053.png" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67e1b6365bcae7c93b62a48ab5f39b2fadb1587321646601db3bf96045de260c/_MG_1473.png" data-mid="123539751" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67e1b6365bcae7c93b62a48ab5f39b2fadb1587321646601db3bf96045de260c/_MG_1473.png" /> *This work contains full-frontal nudity, viewer discretion is advised.&nbsp; To view this work, enter the password: getoff2017 ︎ https://ellehong.com/You-First-2015 Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:21:16 +0000 L홍 https://ellehong.com/You-First-2015 You First (2015) <img width="3860" height="2152" width_o="3860" height_o="2152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81e25a8c6e326948f551f77b7055b2dbd9e0c2f039859ee141fe960247bdfa26/23693302003_1c2f5ccde4_o.png" data-mid="186735135" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81e25a8c6e326948f551f77b7055b2dbd9e0c2f039859ee141fe960247bdfa26/23693302003_1c2f5ccde4_o.png" /> Choreography: Elle Hong and dancersAssistant to the Choreographer: Paola MasedaDancers: Julia DeVarti, Ostin Fam, Kira Fitzgerald, Lakisha Gonsalves, Kai Hirota Magee, Ilana Newman, Thomas Reid, Sophie Sokolov, Wan Tat Abraham TseLighting Design: Chelsie McPhilimyPhotography: Sandy Aldieri Videography: Atlas AcopianMusic: Tomasz Bednarczyk, Delicate Steve/Dustin Wong, Lali Puna, Brian EnoPremiered at the Center for the Arts Theater, Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT), 2015. ----------------------- “There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”&nbsp; —Joan Didion You First is a postmodern nonet, meditating on themes of home and dis/connection. Dancers arrive at brief moments of stability before being thrust into situations of perpetual falling, or shoving, or un-righting. There is something very un-right about their world. They march lazily. They take up space, then are self-conscious over being perceived as taking up space. The ground is a rug being pulled from beneath, forever. Stillness and tenderness are present but fleeting. Connections are made, then broken, then returned to. Someone leaves at any moment. Deal with it.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; How is someone felt through their absence?&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;What’s the difference between holding on and holding someone back? The dancers make space for others and then themselves. They sometimes do their own thing, sometimes do the same thing. Sometimes the dancers intentionally do nothing.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="3832" height="2555" width_o="3832" height_o="2555" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a630322bed8a18ba2e2b606860a23b89afbe676ee63809a3037ba948d5041c2f/24211932292_06df0e4871_o.jpg" data-mid="123541733" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a630322bed8a18ba2e2b606860a23b89afbe676ee63809a3037ba948d5041c2f/24211932292_06df0e4871_o.jpg" /> ︎ https://ellehong.com/The-Kate-Bush-Factor-2022 Thu, 04 Nov 2021 01:48:03 +0000 L홍 https://ellehong.com/The-Kate-Bush-Factor-2022 The Kate Bush Factor(2022) A collaboration by Elle Hong, Madison Palffy, and a.r. havel Concept &amp; Performance: Elle Hong, Madison Palffy Scenic Design &amp; Videography: a.r. havel Original Score &amp; Sound Design: Elle Hong, Madison Palffy, Slipper Grass The Kate Bush Factor was supported through a B2 Center for Media, Arts and Performance Residency (Hong/Palffy), an Art Gym Denver Create Award Residency (Hong), and the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Theatre &amp; Dance. Premiered at ATLAS - B2 Center for Media, Arts &amp; Performance (Boulder, CO), June 2022. <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ecc0eb554491932a4e110c0b08362c3b6afaee549c2d2a4ed814fe0adcb395e/KBF_Still-1.png" data-mid="123544513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ecc0eb554491932a4e110c0b08362c3b6afaee549c2d2a4ed814fe0adcb395e/KBF_Still-1.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1618" width_o="2880" height_o="1618" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f6529b90ae0bc05f7085ba84922a60f40b314b3fc2dd94e69de79a0babf781d/KBF_Still-2.png" data-mid="123544514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f6529b90ae0bc05f7085ba84922a60f40b314b3fc2dd94e69de79a0babf781d/KBF_Still-2.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6cf65ca171c8979a2c07fc0a53fffac0ffc135403cf3e5962fc5700ef2ee414/KBF_Still-3.png" data-mid="123544515" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6cf65ca171c8979a2c07fc0a53fffac0ffc135403cf3e5962fc5700ef2ee414/KBF_Still-3.png" /> The Kate Bush Factor centers performers Elle Hong and Madison Palffy in their journey towards distilling the magic of what makes UK pop star, Kate Bush, so compelling. Recontextualizing experimental film and mockumentary as structured dance-improvisation, the two tap into Bush’s excess, indulgence, drag performance, wistfulness, and longing as embodied strategies for fugitivity and queer worldbuilding. Hong and Palffy become subsumed in their quest for embodying the spirit of Kate Bush; the result is a feature-length identity crisis, or perhaps, identity revelation into the parts of oneself found through attempting to become someone/something else. With additional set design and filmography by a.r. havel, The Kate Bush Factor is a fantastical exploration into the possibilities that unfold through leaning into, as Bush puts so eloquently, the “mm…yes!” <img width="1735" height="1152" width_o="1735" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e757945067061ae434ca5b6621e0a1dd9ef36b3f30bda4eee54297686f40899f/NEW-MEDIA_official-selection-laurels-color-edit.png" data-mid="177290175" border="0" data-scale="22" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e757945067061ae434ca5b6621e0a1dd9ef36b3f30bda4eee54297686f40899f/NEW-MEDIA_official-selection-laurels-color-edit.png" /> ------------- Stream/purchase “Heaven Is the Key of C” on Bandcamp. Heaven Is the Key of C by The Kate Bush Factor ︎ https://ellehong.com/Terms-of-Use-2019 Thu, 04 Nov 2021 01:04:03 +0000 L홍 https://ellehong.com/Terms-of-Use-2019 Terms of Use (2019) To view the full films, please contact ellehong[dot]art[at]gmail[dot]com. Terms of Use is a two-part video work that considers desire as a mode of (anti)production. Desire reveals itself as fundamental towards the aims of&nbsp; certain AIs/emergent technologies, i.e., something may be programmed to elicit a desired outcome. These outcomes then give language towards the underlying desires of their instigators, which reveal entanglements with dominant ideologies of race, gender/sexuality, class, among others. How might the production of digital mess, detritus, waste, and frivolity both interrupt, and reconfigure, power structures inherent to technologically-based art? <img width="1116" height="626" width_o="1116" height_o="626" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43dce3f3237dbb04169d8563e9fc19c3b3028bb08d1dcd818e232b262b6c67f4/Screen-Shot-2019-12-13-at-12.43.20-AM.png" data-mid="141797436" border="0" alt="Still from &quot;Compos(i)t&quot;" data-caption="Still from &quot;Compos(i)t&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43dce3f3237dbb04169d8563e9fc19c3b3028bb08d1dcd818e232b262b6c67f4/Screen-Shot-2019-12-13-at-12.43.20-AM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1614" width_o="2880" height_o="1614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/550c82ef838874c455a39832197a4afaeaed057aacadff0796b06737896330e0/5-composit.png" data-mid="141797643" border="0" alt="Still from &quot;Compos(i)t&quot;" data-caption="Still from &quot;Compos(i)t&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/550c82ef838874c455a39832197a4afaeaed057aacadff0796b06737896330e0/5-composit.png" /> <img width="1864" height="962" width_o="1864" height_o="962" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1542e2ed16a0d608a97f0234ed1b948dacdbdef9a6d2d97e0063fa6aedf9aa9b/Screen-Shot-2019-04-23-at-2.10.47-PM.png" data-mid="123543007" border="0" alt="Still from &quot;Competitive Adoptees&quot; (w/ Laura Hyunjhee Kim)" data-caption="Still from &quot;Competitive Adoptees&quot; (w/ Laura Hyunjhee Kim)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1542e2ed16a0d608a97f0234ed1b948dacdbdef9a6d2d97e0063fa6aedf9aa9b/Screen-Shot-2019-04-23-at-2.10.47-PM.png" /> <img width="2542" height="1424" width_o="2542" height_o="1424" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/180fb0d2ae61b5cbcbcd24ee40075e79946481c3a65eb76589c914b79fdcfe04/kush-edit.png" data-mid="141800140" border="0" alt="Still from &quot;&iexcl;CABO 2030! : an augmented reality spring break&quot; (w/ Jasper Messer &amp; Thomas Van de Pas)" data-caption="Still from &quot;¡CABO 2030! : an augmented reality spring break&quot; (w/ Jasper Messer &amp; Thomas Van de Pas)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/180fb0d2ae61b5cbcbcd24ee40075e79946481c3a65eb76589c914b79fdcfe04/kush-edit.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1616" width_o="2880" height_o="1616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e80196c18f9ced3485fb19c9fea58537ff8c48a429a0a953c4da0449fb52340c/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-6.15.35-PM.png" data-mid="141797906" border="0" alt="Still from &quot;STEALTH LESBIAN&quot;" data-caption="Still from &quot;STEALTH LESBIAN&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e80196c18f9ced3485fb19c9fea58537ff8c48a429a0a953c4da0449fb52340c/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-6.15.35-PM.png" /> This work offers forth lo-fi video interventions to a digital landscape that grows aesthetically sharper, wiser, and more insidious. How can we continue to be, and create, in conversation with technological intimacy as a form of resistance against emergent tech’s trajectories towards social governance and population control? Terms of Use &amp; Terms of Use (Suite II): Agree to Disagree ask us how we might propose queerer means of being in the world that destabilize dominant ideologies on technology, identity, and the body. ----------------------------------------------- <img width="2000" height="3284" width_o="2000" height_o="3284" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9aa343d7c5402f4bed6ce57552bc9ef3faabbf3d03fad0e6c497cba5696c216/toug2.png" data-mid="159153024" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9aa343d7c5402f4bed6ce57552bc9ef3faabbf3d03fad0e6c497cba5696c216/toug2.png" /><img width="2000" height="4100" width_o="2000" height_o="4100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66f6de97e7bea043d4f0c70a1d3159192d4f389a3b08f665df5fa2fbc5869402/toug4a.png" data-mid="159153025" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66f6de97e7bea043d4f0c70a1d3159192d4f389a3b08f665df5fa2fbc5869402/toug4a.png" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea569ef0997c4957b1967ab08fc5718f308e1b1ac35e96098d468640f66f9d18/IMG_3534.JPG" data-mid="159153597" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea569ef0997c4957b1967ab08fc5718f308e1b1ac35e96098d468640f66f9d18/IMG_3534.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d37019cb1a18734a60bbfd151d2d704989588ea332f1b18bf2287036e2c939bf/IMG_3522.JPG" data-mid="159154048" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d37019cb1a18734a60bbfd151d2d704989588ea332f1b18bf2287036e2c939bf/IMG_3522.JPG" /> <img width="2965" height="2000" width_o="2965" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd91a864cfe72178a256ddf664e8d81e226f80b23a8cffc3f832ec652b4ce857/TickleHere012.png" data-mid="159153175" border="0" alt="Photo by Eric Coombs Esmail" data-caption="Photo by Eric Coombs Esmail" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd91a864cfe72178a256ddf664e8d81e226f80b23a8cffc3f832ec652b4ce857/TickleHere012.png" /> <img width="3097" height="2000" width_o="3097" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4f76b707da30417d62b6fc148ecf0352bd9b498090c783c1f2adb512c9907e3/TickleHere037.png" data-mid="159153179" border="0" alt="Photo by Eric Coombs Esmail" data-caption="Photo by Eric Coombs Esmail" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b4f76b707da30417d62b6fc148ecf0352bd9b498090c783c1f2adb512c9907e3/TickleHere037.png" /> <img width="3543" height="2000" width_o="3543" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/929b0ec851e2cf05abc8c3322ebdc747c57eeb1a222254b48b6df057d6ce10b9/TickleHere011.png" data-mid="159153172" border="0" alt="Photo by Eric Coombs Esmail" data-caption="Photo by Eric Coombs Esmail" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/929b0ec851e2cf05abc8c3322ebdc747c57eeb1a222254b48b6df057d6ce10b9/TickleHere011.png" /> Installations: Dec 2019, Terms of Use (Suite II): Agree to Disagree @ CMCI Studio (Boulder, CO) May 2019, Terms of Use @ University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO) Apr 2019, Terms of Use @ Gildar Gallery (Denver, CO) Terms of Use was supported through a Center for the Arts &amp; Humanities Fellowship at the University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO). ︎ https://ellehong.com/UTOPIA01_SH3-wrld-2016 Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:45:41 +0000 L홍 https://ellehong.com/UTOPIA01_SH3-wrld-2016 UTOPIA01_SH3.wrld (2016) <img width="1510" height="1000" width_o="1510" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a94e53833338991d64a8bbdf168949936ffd10b706177b5404d82dd524c587e/Ray-Miao-1.png" data-mid="156758322" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a94e53833338991d64a8bbdf168949936ffd10b706177b5404d82dd524c587e/Ray-Miao-1.png" /> Choreography, A/V Production, Costume Design: Elle Hong (umami goddess™)Performers: кir alshanetsky (ok_r3n), Shemaiah Clarke (SH3-ma1ah), Kai Magee (m3/mii), Jasper Messer (††† DJ HEX GIRL †††), Leneil Roderique (@comegetfxxedup)&nbsp;Music: SH3 (prod. umami goddess™)Additional Music: Millionaires, A.G. Cook, Cash Cash, Dam Funk, Lady Gaga, Hannah Diamond, Wonder Girls, Azealia Banks, Dirty Vegas, Lykke Li X AutoErotiqueLighting Design: Chelsie McPhilimyVideography: Brendan Plake Originally presented at the Patricelli ‘92 Theater, Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT), November 2016. ----------------------- UTOPIA01_SH3.wrld&nbsp;is a multimedia exercise in queer worldbuilding. Heavily influenced by José Esteban Muñoz’s queer theory writing, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, Elle collaborates music, experimental film, and live dance performance in an antidisciplinary work that blurs divides between realness and falsity. Engineering a “fake” pop group,&nbsp;UTOPIA01_SH3.wrld asks viewers to consider the entanglements between the real and the fake, and how a pragmatic investment in both might serve as a site for fantastical, future envisioning. The creation of the fictional pop-group, SH3, aims to&nbsp;mirror the experience of carving one’s transness anew. If one treats something made-up as truth, and this phenomena begins to take on real-life consequences, might we then recognize the relative falsity/realness required in the conception and construction of newness? This work moves towards, and mines, the potentialities within the fake that lead towards greater play, indulgence, and self-/selves-determination. ----------------------- ru4fake? THE DEBUT SINGLE BY SH3 AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD @ soundcloud.com/umamigoddess umami goddess™ · SH3 - ru4fake? (prod. umami goddess™) ︎ https://ellehong.com/writing-menu Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:25:39 +0000 L홍 https://ellehong.com/writing-menu writing poetryHoʻolana Journal (2025) hybrid/art-writingEmergencyINDEX, vol. 10 (2023) the digital review, issue 2 (2022)&nbsp; just femme &amp; dandy, vol. 1 (2021) EmergencyINDEX, vol. 9 (2020) ︎