Squash&Biscuit
Shuwen Zhao and Brian Griffith create musical atmospheres for moving images. Their experience with traditional musical structures informs their approach and experimentation with sounds. Zhao, a pianist, has an ear for detail creating lush soundscapes and intricate melodic lines. Griffith, a bassist, builds deep currents of sound and delicate tonal whispers. Together, they compliment each other’s styles able to build a piece that is expertly crafted and surprising. Their work has been featured in Taylor’s works: INTERIOR, SWELL, FOLLICLE, and PERENNIAL
Yuki Ding
Yuki Shiyu Ding is an interdisciplinary artist. She has a painting and printmaking background. She is currently studying her scene design MFA at the California Institute of the arts. Her practices focus on using space, color, and texture to convey the emotions that people tend to hide. Her expressive stages and paintings revealed a world that contains some profound understandings of human emotions.
Claire Czhran
Claire Chrzan is a Los Angeles based lighting designer originally from Chicago. Her approach to design is rooted in belief that the lighting should be in conversation with performers. Her designs move in tandem with the actors as another voice, breathing life into the story.
Her work has been see at the Edignburgh Fringe Festival, at The public Theare in NYC, at the Under the Radar Festival, and in Chicago at The Goodman, Steppenwolf, Court Theater, Manual Cinema, Writesrs Theatre, Northlight, A Red Orchid, The Joffrey Bballet’s Joffrey Academy, and more.
Claire has toured nationally and internationally as production stage manager for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s HS2 and with The Alonzo King LINES Ballet. In her spare time Claire is a facilitator with ABLE ensemble, an ensemble for actors with developmental differences.
Claire received her BA from Columbia College Chicago and is a current MFA candidate at California Institute of the Arts
Jeonghyeon Joo
Jeonghyeon Joo is an award-winning haegeum performer, composer, improviser, and researcher who is an ardent advocate for new and experimental music. Joo draws a narrative through an exploration of a somatic, corporeal relationship between instrument and body. Also, her compositions frequently borrow a specific musical or sociocultural concept from Korean traditional music.
As an authentic Korean traditional musician, Joo has mastered classical and folk repertoires of Korean art music and won prestigious awards for her outstanding artistic achievements in haegeum including the Presidential Award of Korea (2012), First Prize at KBS Korean Music Competition (2014), Grand Prize (Award from Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) at Jeonju-daesaseup Traditional Music Competition (2011), and Silver Prize at Dong-A Korean Music Competition (2012).