Club Kaya: An Interactive Experience, Performance, and Archive

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Celebrating ’s 30 years of publishing award-winning, avant-garde, experimental, and expectation-busting Asian diasporic literature, Club Kaya is a collaborative, multi-genre, interactive performance and experience developed by artist-in-residence .
Inspired by Kaya’s political organizing, queer agit-prop influences, and experimental feminist interventions, this one-night event explores the idea of archives as a mapping of dynamic, transformative, and necessarily collaborative relationships rather than a cataloging of static objects and artifacts. Live, interactive performances will include:
> Micro operas
> Vibratory sound experiments
> Book-inspired interactive music boxes
> Literary karaoke
> And more!
What happens when we think of the archive as a place of refuge? How can we engage with the histories of cultural production beyond what is expected? Guest collaborators including anti-colonial musician and artist (Bitter Party), Emmy- and Peabody Award–winning filmmaker (Adventure Time, City of Ghosts), and experimental video artist will join Nakagawa in engaging and instilling the publisher’s shared history and shared struggle: to make spaces to exist in the fullness of one’s own lived reality.

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Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by Edwin Hill (French, Italian, American Studies and Ethnicity), Sunyoung Lee (Kaya Press, American Studies and Ethnicity), and Ana Iwataki (Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture). Co-sponsored by the Creativity, Theory, and Politics Research Cluster (American Studies and Ethnicity); the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries; and Asian Pacific American Student Services.

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