This performance invites audiences into a fictional museum from an unspecified future, where a team of archaeologists from the future, in this case, you, excavate the ordinary artifacts of daily life in the 21st century. Guided by a museum voice of total, unearned confidence, you’ll dig, classify, and label these fragments like the museums before them, which were never built to see the faces they claim to archive.

Yejia Sun, Jintong Yang and Peiran Zhao ask: is preservation ever separable from erasure? And can we imagine a future, or only recalculate the past?

Artist Bio
Yejia Sun is a dramaturg and artist-scholar from China. She holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia University and is currently a PhD student in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. In the United States, her dramaturgical and creative work has been presented at National Sawdust, JACK, and the Rhinoceros Theater Festival. In China, her dramaturgical works appear in Goethe Institute, Young Theatre, Shekou Theatre Festival, among others. Her writing has appeared in Theatre Journal, Asian Theatre Journal, Critical Stages, HowlRound, Ying Ming Theatre Magazine, and China Writer. Her honors include the Davis Peace Prize, the Lisa Lu Fellowship, the A4 Foundation WCWD Fellowship, and a finalist selection for the Elliott Hayes Award from the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). www.yejiasun.com

Jintong Yang is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of HCI and time-based media art. She explores how computational systems can support more intuitive and embodied forms of expression. Drawing on a background in motion and interactive design, her work bridges digital and physical processes to create experiences that deepen both aesthetic engagement and understanding, across animation, live performance, and installation. She holds an MFA in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Media Arts and Technology at UC Santa Barbara.

Peiran is a Chicago-based music and media producer working across film, audio, games, and interactive media. Her work explores the relationship between sound, storytelling, space, and audience experience. She has composed and designed music and sound for theatrical and interdisciplinary performances, short films, games, and multimedia projects. As one of the creators of *Wok Talk (我可说)*, a podcast exploring food, identity, and cross-cultural experiences through personal storytelling, she brings a cross-disciplinary approach to narrative and audio production. Drawing from her background as a classically trained violinist, Peiran is drawn to using sound to shape narrative, atmosphere, memory, and perception.

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