Display 2026 – Jumble, Tumble Public Rehearsal 1

Doors open at 7:00 PM. Please note that doors will close at 7:30 PM, as the performance involves children’s participation.

Display 2026 – Jumble, Tumble for two performers, wood blocks, and electronics is a work that explores the temporality of thoughts and experiences. Through the tactile setup of woodblocks and the sonic interplay, actions accumulate, collapse, and reassemble, tracing the fragile line between order and disorder. The performance is a live process of redefining meaning from scattered elements, revealing construction and deconstruction as inseparable acts.

Performer: Tian Qin, Jil D.

Additional-Performer: Yu Ji

Performer Bios:

Tian Qin

Houston-based Chinese composer and keyboardist Tian Qin creates music that’s compelling, humorous, and visually vivid—blending text, craft, film, and choreography, often pushing the boundaries of traditional forms while incorporating her cultural heritage, engaging communal experiences, and guiding the explorations of body and mind. She’s collaborated with The Rhythm Method, Duo Impetuoso, Loadbang, Musiqa, Asia Society, and Roomful of Teeth, and is the 2024 American Guild of Organists Student Commissioning Project winner and a 2025 Houston Arts Alliance “Let Creativity Happen” Award recipient. Tian serves as a teaching artist at American Festival for the Arts, theory instructor at Opus One Chamber Music School, organist at Trinity Episcopal Church (Houston), member of Gamelan of the New Moon, and studies raga with Ragavan Manian. Alum of Shanghai Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music (BM), and Rice University (MM, Brown Fellow).

Jil D.

“I think I am an artist because I make books, & I know a lot of Artist. Jil draws and crafts.”

This work is part of BHKM and Yu Ji’s ongoing project Shack.

“When you enter the space of initial research, you will find a box standing against the wall. We call it Shack, a temporary body of sculpture that represents Yu Ji and BHKM: cardboard walls, painted radish red, cement flooring, supported by 3/8x3/8 wooden sticks, all walls open individually suggests alternative dimensions of the space that contains. Our materialistic practice happens inside and performative practice happens both inside and outside. The Shark employs method of ‘____’ and community building in order to circulate the idea of use “of”. Matters and happenings updated coordinately and improvisedly.”

— BHKM and Yu Ji

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