Schindler House Haunting is a site-specific performance triptych by jas lin 林思穎, commissioned by homeLA as a part of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture centennial celebration Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making. In this haunting, lin builds on R.M. Schindler’s “space architecture,” which shattered notions of useful domestic space partitioning interior and exterior, self and Other. By inviting the “domestic uncanny,” lin mutates the Schindler House into a haunted house where the values and familiarities of the American nuclear family home are turned inside out. Fear of the ghost is fear of the Other– a gaze that turns marginalized bodies into ghosts. By embodying a figure of abjection, resistance, and revenge, lin collapses boundaries between human and Other, making visible the repression and oppression organized under dominant social frameworks. The house becomes a stage, and the haunting, a performance, transforming the Schindler House into an in-between space with no return to normality.
Commissioned by homeLA. Music/Sound Design by FITNESSS. Costume Design by aeon. Lighting Design by FITNESSS. Flash warning: The second part of the performance contains flashing lights.
jas lin 林思穎
jas lin 林思穎 (they/them) is a performance artist, choreographer, and constant (un)becoming born and based on Tongva Land (Los Angeles). lin stages exorcisms and tantrums for purging choreographies of the learned body and shutting down internal and external surveillance cameras that suggest there is a Proper way to move through the world. their practice of deep feeling is invested in re-membering what the body has been manipulated into forgetting. they value performance as a ritual of deep presence — by returning to our senses, we can reawaken to our possibility, connection, and agency within the world around us. lin’s practice emerges from a vast lineage of teachers, from friendships to films to flowers. centering play in the everyday, they experiment with multiplicity and contradiction while dancing with the world as their body.
jas worships the elsewhere and the otherwise, and loves to co-create shared fugitive worlds and live in them. their choreographies, films, workshops, and lectures have been shared around the world, including at Danshallerne Copenhagen, MOCA Los Angeles, Power Station of Art Shanghai, and Kassel Dokfest. jas is committed to the life-long process of un-learning and un-teaching hierarchical, Othering, and superficial ways of moving, being, sensing, and knowing. they believe movement to be a manifestation and actualization of potentiality — that together, we can dance the possible into being.
homeLA
homeLA provides a platform to independent dance, body-based, sound, and intermedia artists at various stages of their careers to develop new works and one-of-a-kind performances in response to the architecture and ethos of Los Angeles homes.
Schindler House Haunting is part of the centennial celebration of the Schindler House, made possible with support from the Graham Foundation for Art and Architecture, City of West Hollywood, California Arts Council, Department of Cultural Affairs, the MAK Center Centennial Council, the MAK Center Patron program, and our sponsors.
Above Image Credit: Tiffany Chung
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