A one-hour solo performance both scripted and improvised, goo is an offering: an attempt to engage with family archives hilariously plays out as Yun Lee fails to connect to the contents of a book written by their grandmother Yeon-Ok Kim.
goo channels tangential affective and linguistic impulses that spiral out of oral histories, incomplete memories, sensations both felt, imagined, and made up. It brings out the vulnerable side of family history of migration, separation, and alienation. There’s a plenty of longing, feeling of loss, explosion of anger, reaching through incomprehension. There’s love, excavated in the process of making this work, the kind that permeates three generations despite the trauma and forgetting—
March 8, 8pm
Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts
Northampton, MA
March 30, 2pm
The Goat Farm Arts Center
Atlanta, GA
✨upcoming✨
TBD
Movement Research at Judson Church
New York City, NY
“Will you look at this photo for me?
because I
can’t anymore.”
Notes taken on Perito Moreno Glacier
Notes on
Qualitative Research, 2024
Credits
Choreography and Performance Yun Lee
Scenography and Graphic Design Kathy Guo
Creative Advisor Jake Meginsky
Scenic Advisor Amy Putnam
Production Assstant Sam Bishop
Technical Assistant Alina Tschumakow
Sound Technician David Wiggall
Costumes Support Emily Dunn
Production Manager Matthew Adelson
Assistant Production Manager Carlie Nieman
Outside Eye Wendy Woodson, Mary Beth Brooker
Coffee Date Kimberly Kono
Publicity Shelley Latham
Made possible in part by the Sharonjean Moser Leeds Endowment