Rika Lin aka (Yoshinojo Fujima) presents a virtual reality experience, "Kurokami E{m}Urge #ChooseYourReality”, co-directed with filmmaker Subhash Kumar Maskara, in Mumbai, India, and created in collaboration with Nozawa Matsuya, a Gidayu Shamisen artist in Kyoto, Japan, Sanjuro Toyoaki, an Ozashiki Shamisen player from Tokyo, Japan, and Hekiun Oda, a Grandmaster of Japanese calligraphy.
Rika Lin explains, “The pandemic’s onset coincided with the start of developing this virtual experience. It was an unexpected opportunity to create in a manner that inspires a different avenue of thought, cognition, and realization is an exciting opportunity. Due to the individual and technological nature of the experience, a setting that is indoors, calm, and spacious, such as Links Hall's studio, is conducive to achieving the intended experience for the individual.
Kurokami E{m}Urge is taken from a Kabuki play scene, and the intended experience is self-realization of thoughts regarding one’s own identity, the connection between all beings, and the ability to sympathize and relate one’s own beliefs while exploring from within another precept, in this case, during a virtual happening. The piece is a work in progress, and at a stage of development that the experience can be provided using the Oculus 2/Meta headset.”
Limited capacity and VR headset.
A head covering will be provided. Patrons with glasses will need to remove glasses in order to fit the VR headset on their head.
Free with RSVP.
Rika Lin (a.k.a. Yoshinojo Fujima)
is a traditional Japanese dancer, choreographer, and, increasingly, a producer and curator. She is reclaiming willfulness for female artists by building spaces that promote the full person, strengths, and expressions left out of the accepted norms of traditional Japanese performance. Her collaborations embrace musicians, media, and visual artists equally, furthering a meticulous investigation of traditional forms and their progenitor contemporary expressions.