MAY 11-13, 2023

Runtime: 45 minutes with no intermission.
Please be advised of sensitive content, including high intensity sound and rapid movement of light, which some may find challenging.


existence in time is transitory

Created by Testu Collective and Yoko Murakami

Performers
Tyrone Bevans (movement artist)
Nava Dunkelman (percussionist)
Yoko Murakami (movement artist)
Serena Stucke (electronic musician)

Sound and Light
Dan Tesene (sound object /light object design and fabrication)
Serena Stucke (sound object /light object design and fabrication, sound design)
Matt Morris (lighting design)
Anna Wotring (sound engineer)

Venmo: @testucollective

TESTU COLLECTIVE
Testu Collective is an NYC-based intermedia art group founded by Dan Tesene and Serena Stucke. Testu creates experimental videos, concept soundtracks, audiovisual experiences, and performance art installations. Testu has produced site-specific installations and curated works for Triskelion Arts (Brooklyn), Wallplay On Canal (NYC), Flux Factory (Governors Island), Sound Pedro (Los Angeles), Chashama (Brooklyn), CTM Festival(online), Ars Electronica(NYC), Ace Hotel(NYC), The Shed(NYC), Pleamar Festival(Buenos Aires). Most recently, Testu released their first audiovisual EP ‘Influence of the Electric Field’ and created music videos for Clarice Jensen’s latest album ‘Esthesis’.
@testucollective
testucollective.com  

YOKO MURAKAMI
Yoko Murakami was born in Tokyo, Japan and was raised between the 2 cultures of Japan and the US. Currently based in New York City, Yoko creates movement-based work in forms of site-specific installations and experimental film. Finding the surreal in the mundane, she is constantly exploring new perspectives and intersections between creative mediums. Her new venture into experimental film has led to her works being selected and screened in film festivals in Seoul, Moscow, Naples, Belfort, Cyprus, Mexico City, and Lincoln Center in NYC, just in 2022. She is a contributing artist of Testu Collective since 2018.
@yokoteki
yokoteki.com

NAVA DUNKELMAN
Nava Dunkelman is a percussionist and improviser based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother. Her musical approach is innovative and dynamic, combining virtuosity and intuition. Meticulous in an intrinsic way, she uses her distinctive sound palette to explore and give life to a vast spectrum of musical possibilities. Nava's current projects are electro-percussion experimental noise duo IMA with Amma Ateria, and percussion duo NOMON with her sister Shayna Dunkelman. She also has performed and collaborated with Fred Frith, John Zorn, William Winant, Ikue Mori, Brandon Seabrook, Angélica Negrón, Pauchi Sasaki, and gabby fluke-mogul and many others. She has performed classical and contemporary pieces with the William Winant Percussion Group, Joan Jeanrenaud, San Francisco Girls Chorus, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and others.Nava studied percussion under Eugene Novotney at Humboldt State University before attending Mills College, where she studied with William Winant, Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, and Zeena Parkins.
navadunkelman.com
@nldunk

TYRONE BEVANS
Tyrone Bevans is dancer, choreographer, Illustrator and printmaker. He is currently dancing for The Fabulous Waack Dancers and Joya Powell’s Movement of the people. In the past Tyrone has performed and collaborated with artists such as Christal Brown, Chafin Seymour, Maya Orchin, Vessels, FunkanometryNY, and Karla Garcia. As a mover Tyrone investigates space, risk, and play with one’s physical vernacular in order to access personal freedom.
@tyronebevans

ANNA WOTRING
Anna Wotring, Pittsburgh native, is a community minded dance artist, designer and production stage manager committed to the practice of collaborative leadership. She currently works with Annie Heath, Lauren Horn, Jennifer Nugent and slowdanger as a technical design consultant, dancer, and production stage manager. Wotring obtained her BFA in Dance, at the Five College Dance Department in Western Massachusetts. She has had the privilege of working with a multitude of dance organizations, including Alvin Ailey Studios, Attack Theater, Ballet Des Ameriques, BalletNext, Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Company, the Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh, Dance Place, H2O Contemporary Dance, Monica Bill Barnes and Company, New York Live Arts, the Pillow Project, Prayers of the People, RoseAnne Spradlin, Scapegoat Garden, Time Lapse Dance, and many others. Wotring is beyond excited to begin working and imagining with the Trisk team. @annaissupercool

MATT MORRIS
Matt Morris is a NYC based lighting designer with a wide array of lighting design experience including theater, music events, comedy, and broadcast. But he has a special love for dance and movement, and the collaboration with creative and inventive artists and choreographers. He is grateful for the opportunities like this to support the new work of these artists.

SPECIAL THANKS
Special Thanks to Orietta Crispino of TheaterLab for endless inspiration and rehearsal space!


We respectfully acknowledge that the work of Triskelion Arts is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape peoples. We pay our respects to their land, water, and ancestors, past, present, and future. This acknowledgment demonstrates a commitment to the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and to learning to be better stewards of this land.

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MAY 19, 2023

6:30PM Cocktail Hour & Silent Auction
7:30PM Performances & Live Auction
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