Mond(e): 月亮代表我的心 — Myths for the Moon by Irene Hsiao
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Saturday, July 26th, from 2PM - 3PM
About the Program:
Named for the Taiwanese love song “The moon represents my heart,” Mond(e): 月亮代表我的心 is a performance installation and community art project created by Irene Hsiao as part of her year-long residency at the Hyde Park Art Center that bridges places and people, times and cultures. Mond(e) means moon(s) (German); world (French); also humans, singular and plural, Asian, American, international.
In Mond(e), site-specific performances between Hsiao and new collaborators each month will occur within an installation built in the artist’s studio and evolve in reference to the periodic phases of the moon: its darkness, its reflection, its influence on tides, our poems, our myths, stories, and legends, our songs old and new.
We will sing love songs tenderly into the ear of someone we cannot see. We will write love letters to each other, to our future, to our past, to ourselves. We will move together, embracing lunacy and each other in an environment of light, projection, reflection, and invitation to write, play, dance, and dream.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.
About the Artist:
Irene Hsiao is a dancer, writer, and multidisciplinary artist. She creates performances in conversation with visual art in museums, galleries, and public spaces, a practice that includes site-specific interaction with visual artworks and experimental engagement with artists, institutions, and the public. She is a 2025 Radicle Studio Resident at Hyde Park Art Center, 2024 Resident Artist at the Heritage Museum of Asian Art, inaugural Artist in Residence at the Smart Museum of Art in 2020 and 2021, 2022-23 Fellow at High Concept Labs, first Artist in Residence at 21c Museum Hotel in 2022-2023, and a 2020 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist. Her performances have been presented at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Smart Museum, EXPO Chicago, Chicago Textile Week, Ragdale Foundation, Krannert Art Museum, Alma Art Gallery, Kavi Gupta Gallery, and more.
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