CRS & Fridman Gallery Present Crossing Boundaries 24: Between Breaths: A Sonic Memoir with gamin
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), Fridman Gallery, and New Ear, Inc. present Crossing Boundaries 24: Between Breaths: A Sonic Memoir with gamin, an intimate multimedia performance by Korean-born, U.S.-based musician gamin, a multi-instrumentalist and designated Yisuja (official holder of Korea’s Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46). In this work, gamin invites audiences into a sonic memoir woven from breath, memory, and ancestral voice.
“Her music is unlike anything else in the world.” — New York Music Daily
Elizabeth Hoffman (Sound Design & Electronics), Christine Yerie Lee (Visual Art), Jacqueline Kerrod (harp), and Satoshi Takeishi (percussion) round out the creative team.
The concert will take place on December 1, 2025 at 7 pm at Fridman Gallery. Tickets are $27.74 and are available online.
Created by gamin, Between Breaths is a meditation on lineage, transformation, and transcendence—where tradition is reimagined through feminist and intercultural lenses, and breath becomes memory, ritual, resistance, and future. Drawing on her monograph of family history and cultural heritage, she brings to life the stories of her foremothers through the sounds of traditional Korean wind instruments—the piri, saenghwang, and taepyeongso—blurring the lines between ritual and recital. Through improvisation and Korean modes, each breath becomes a vessel of resilience, migration, and belonging.
TICKETS:
https://withfriends.events/event/gnMixNT7/between-breaths-by-gamin/
VENUE LOCATION:
Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
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ABOUT CROSSING BOUNDARIES CONCERT SERIES
CROSSING BOUNDARIES is a concert series devoted to dissolving boundaries between performers and audiences, the traditional and contemporary, classical and experimental, and the culturally specific and the global. Series curators are given the opportunity to create unique performance events in collaboration with musical, visual, and/or movement artists of their choosing. The series was conceived in 2018 by the Korean traditional wind player and composer gamin, who has continued to help curate the series each year. https://crsny.org/crossing-boundaries-concert-series/
Crossing Boundaries is made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement, a regrant program administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. LMCC empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support, to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Manhattan and beyond.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
gamin is a renowned Korean musician and multi-instrumentalist, celebrated for her mastery of traditional wind instruments, particularly the piri (double-reed bamboo oboe), taepyeongso (conical oboe), and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated master for Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46. Trained under the mentorship of living national treasure Jeong Jae-guk, gamin has reinterpreted Korean classical music while exploring contemporary and experimental sounds. Her performances have captivated audiences worldwide, blending the rich heritage of Korean music with innovative improvisation. As a former principal player of the National Gugak Orchestra, gamin continues to expand the boundaries of Korean music through her solo projects and collaborations with global artists. gamin was awarded a Jerome (Hill) Foundation Artist Fellowship 2021–2023. Since 2022, gamin has taught graduate and undergraduate ethnomusicology as Adjunct Faculty at the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA. In 2023, gamin was awarded an artist fellowship by the Howard Foundation. Since 2018, gamin has curated performances for the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series, which she conceived. gaminmusic.com
Elizabeth Hoffman, composer (NYC), works in acoustic, electroacoustic, and computer media, and has created collaborative projects with performers including Ivan Goff, Jane Rigler, Margaret Lancaster, gamin, Marianne Gythfeldt, Elena Demyanenko, String Noise, Azalea Twining, Andy Kozar, and HYPERCUBE, and a recent work for Glass Farm Ensemble’s Nieuw Amsterdam – New York album on Innova. Elizabeth teaches in NYU’s Arts and Science Music Department. Her electroacoustic music is published by Empreintes DIGITALes. She has received Bourges, Prix Ars, Pierre Schaeffer, and Sonic Circuits prizes; and MacDowell, NEA, Seattle Arts Commission, and Jerome Foundation grants, and an International Computer Music Association commission. Her interactive music connects computer processes to acoustic instruments through textural, tuning, and spatial explorations, or algorithmic applications, as seen in a permanent installation in the Bobst Library Atrium. Her interest in feminist re-tellings, the imprint of society on subjectivity, and dialogue and intervention through music is a long-standing focus. She is also a pianist. https://wp.nyu.edu/elizabeth_hoffman/
Christine Yerie Lee is a multidisciplinary artist working in video, performance, and drawing. Raised in the American South, Lee’s practice explores performativity, embodiment, and spectatorship as a way to reexamine ideas of authenticity, nationhood, and desire in relation to self-construction. Drawing from Korean and American folklore, global histories, and pop culture, she builds interconnected worlds where fantasy and reality collide, creating a new place for cultural, psychological, and socio-political discovery. Her recent projects include BUL (2023), an experimental rock opera inspired by the Korean monster Bulgasari, and its sequel, SWAN SONG (2025). She lives and works in Los Angeles with her dog, Belly.
Lee holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been shown in solo and two-person exhibitions at Human Resources LA, GOBI, Y2K Group (NYC), and Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau (France), and in group shows at UCLA New Wight Gallery, Helen J. Gallery, ICA LA, Museum of Impossible Forms (Finland), REDCAT, and Metro Art Los Angeles. She has been an artist-in-residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Heart of Los Angeles, and Crosstown Arts, and is a recipient of the College Art Association’s Visual Arts Fellowship. Lee has taught video art at CalArts, CSU Long Beach, Pomona College, and Pitzer College. https://www.christineyerielee.com/
South African harpist Jacqueline Kerrod is celebrated for her “exceptionally virtuosic and sensitive” musicianship and her adventurous approach to the harp. Equally at home in classical, contemporary, and experimental genres, she performs throughout the United States and Europe. A frequent collaborator with composer and multi-reedist Anthony Braxton, she tours internationally both in duo and with his ZIM music ensemble. A founding member of the award-winning pop duo Addi & Jacq, Kerrod has also toured her multimedia project Harps Uncovered and is currently developing a solo project that fuses improvisation, songwriting, and live electronics.
A passionate advocate for contemporary and South African music, Kerrod has premiered numerous new works and performed with leading ensembles such as the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Alarm Will Sound, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Her diverse collaborations span artists from Rufus Wainwright to Kanye West, and her recordings appear on labels including dischi di angelica, New Amsterdam, and American Modern Recordings. A graduate of the Yale School of Music, she continues to redefine the expressive possibilities of the harp with her eclectic artistry and boundary-crossing style. https://jacquelinekerrod.com/
Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist, and arranger, is a native of Mito, Japan. He studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. While at Berklee, he developed an interest in the music of South America and moved to Colombia at the invitation of a friend. He spent four years there and forged many musical and personal relationships. One of the projects he worked on while in Colombia was ‘Macumbia’ with composer/arranger Francisco Zumaque, in which traditional, jazz, and classical music were combined. With this group, he performed with the Bogota symphony orchestra in a series of concerts honoring the music of Colombia’s most popular composer, Lucho Bermudes. In 1986, he returned to Miami, U.S., where he began working as an arranger/producer as well as a performer.
In 1987, he produced ‘Morning Ride’ for jazz flutist Nestor Torres on Polygram Records. His interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the Middle East where he studied and performed with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. Since moving to New York in 1991, he has performed and recorded in vast variety of genre, from world music, jazz, contemporary classical music to experimental electronic music with musicians such as Ray Barretto, Carlos ‘Patato’ Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton, Mark Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Erik Friedlander, Ned Rothenberg, MIchael Attias, Shoko Nagai, Paul Giger, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band, Ying String Quartet, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Dhafer Youssef, Lalo Schifrin and Pablo Ziegler, to name a few. He continues to explore multi-cultural, electronic, and improvisational music with local musicians and composers in New York.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a Manhattan- and Tokyo-based arts and spiritual center founded in 2004 by Yasuko Kasaki and Christopher Pelham. Rooted in the non-dualistic teachings of A Course in Miracles (ACIM), CRS offers spiritual counseling, healing, and mind-training courses to practitioners around the world. The Center uses the arts as a vehicle for achieving awakening, unity, and peace. By producing exhibitions, performances, and an online arts magazine (onlylove.ART), and providing support for third-party initiatives like Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M³) and Kotohogi, CRS empowers a diverse, international community of artists to experiment, collaborate, and share their visions. https://crsny.org
Founded in 2013, and located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, FRIDMAN GALLERY champions a diverse roster of international contemporary artists working across various media. The gallery takes risks and organizes critically acclaimed exhibitions, such as the first solo shows in New York by Nate Lewis, Nina Katchadourian, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, and Summer Wheat, and first-ever solo exhibitions of Dindga McCannon and Milford Graves, whose works have now earned a place in the art-historical canon after decades of neglect by the mainstream art world. Our 2022 exhibition Women at War, featuring 12 women artists from Ukraine responding to the current war, has been touring university museums across the U.S. and Canada. In 2025 we will present solo exhibitions by both emerging talents – Azuki Furuya and Will Maxen, and established artists – Remy Jungerman and Athena LaTocha. Additionally, the gallery actively participates in leading international art fairs, such as Art Basel Miami Beach, the Armory Show, Art Cologne, and Paris Photo.
Fridman Gallery is consistently recognized for its ambitious performance program, featuring a full schedule of experimental performance art. This includes the annual New Ear Festival, a comprehensive music festival with a curatorial emphasis on contrast to foster cross-pollination among audiences. In September of 2016, the gallery hosted 9e + 50, a dedication to the seminal 9 Evenings of Theater and Engineering, featuring performances by Alvin Lucier, Pauline Olivieros, Simon Forti, and others. The physical space also serves as the home for choreographer Abigail Levine’s “Restagings” (2017–2024), a durational, multi-part series that reinterprets canonical minimalist and conceptual artworks as performances. With a commitment to pushing artistic boundaries, Fridman Gallery contributes significantly to New York City’s vibrant art scene, fostering dialogue, culture, and exploration within the ever-evolving landscape of contemporary art. https://fridmangallery.com/
NEW EAR, INC. is a presenting organization dedicated to fostering experimentation in time-based media and interdisciplinary collaboration within a visual art context. Carrying on the spirit of risk-taking experimentation in downtown NYC, New Ear supports artists across artistic and cultural backgrounds, and at all stages of their careers with commissions and opportunities to present their work, residencies and workshops, mentorship, access to specialized equipment, and engineering support.
New Ear :: programming is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature as well as individual donors — via WithFriends — who provide essential monthly support. Additionally, New Ear :: was supported by NewMusic USA’s Organization Fund, with support in part from Fifth House Ensemble and legacy contributions to the New MusicUSA endowment. Support for organizations based in New York State is provided in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor. Support for organizations based in New York City is provided in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation. https://new-ear.org