Mond(e): 月亮代表我的心 - tidings

On the unseen pull of the moon, shifting space, restlessness, light behind a cloud, faith beyond the dark stone we stand upon, the alignment of our molecules with the sea.

Movement by Irene Hsiao. Sound by Regina Martinez/selective listening.

Performances at 1:30pm and 3pm, during Center Day (1-4pm) at Hyde Park Art Center

Hyde Park Art Center, Studio 10, 5020 S. Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615

tidings is part of Mond(e): 月亮代表我的心. 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. Learn more at

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.

About

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 Artist at the Hyde Park Art Center, the 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 Cultural Center, Chicago Textile Week, Ragdale Foundation, Krannert Art Museum, Alma Art Gallery, Kavi Gupta Gallery, and more.

, also known as selective listening, experiences sound as records of our connections and departures. Her current experiments draw from an archive of infinitely personal recordings she relates to as soundmarks: her father's hands cleaning dried beans, drumline rehearsal after school, the flap of our clothes outside on the line, the creak of the front gate to home. Each moment becomes its own instrument, its own layer of composition, and a washing and wringing out of memory meant to be overheard like a poem again and again. The message evolves through her collaborative alchemy of dj sets, live performance and sound design for experimental film. Regina currently produces the program alluvia’s fluid for Chicago Public Media Institute’s Lumpen Radio station.

Image (l-r): Regina Martinez, photo by Alejandro Ayala. Irene Hsiao, photo by Ricardo E. Adame

Host or Publisher Irene Hsiao