Crossing Boundaries

CRS presents Azalea, an intimate evening of music composed by Ki Young Kim and performed by Quiet Revolution (musicians Ki Young Kim and gamin of Korea) in the award-winning White Room at CRS on Friday, July 27, 2018 at 8 pm. Azalea is the inaugural program of the Crossing Boundaries — Echoes of Korea — Concert Series curated by Gamin. Ki […]

CRS presents Yut Nori /  나비 Butterfly II Conceptual Transformation Improvisation (2018.9.14), an intimate evening of music intimately intertwined with conceptual visual art created by composer/pianist Hyo Jee Kang, musician gamin, and dance artists binbinFactory (Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa). The performance will take place at CRS on Friday, September 14, 2018 at 8 pm. This program is Vol. 2 […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents 7 word chanting Yeongsanhoesang 靈山會相, featuring Korean traditional music performed by gamin (piri, saenghwang) and Min Kyung Park  (haegeum) accompanied by a tea ceremony performed by Korean tea master Sei-Ryun Chun. Following the performance, there will be a short talk about Korean tea ceremony and Q&A with the artists. For […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 4:  Four Systems, curated by JunYi Chow. Four daring improvisers and acclaimed performers of traditional music from different cultures  — Chatori Shimizu (Shō, Japan), gamin (Piri and Saenghwang, Korea), JunYi Chow (Cello, Malaysia), and Yunzhuo Gan (Yangqin, China) — invite mayhem and unlock surprising congruities […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 5:  ROSE OF SHARON, curated by gamin. “Rose of Sharon” is the national flower of Korea and so represents the people's identity. This performance employs both Korean traditional music (Yeonsanheosang, one of the most representative Korean traditional court music compositions) and contemporary art […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 6:  SUFI MUSIC, DANCE & POETRY, curated by Lâle Sayoko, with live music by Tomchess (ney, USA) and Kamyar Arsani (daf and vocals, Iran) and whirling (Sufi dance) by members of the CRS Sufi dance community. We invite you into our circle to commune with the divine […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 7:  FLY IN WATER, curated by gamin. By turns poignant and thundering, FLY IN WATER is a structured improvisation and meditation on the inter-relationships between humanity, the environment, and the other life forms created by MAG (Multidisciplinary Art Group). FLY IN WATER features music from […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 8:  MOLDING, curated by gamin. Conceived and performed by Leah Ogawa, MOLDING is an object movement puppetry piece about shedding one’s skin and confronting one’s memories. The character illustrates the liminal space she embodies by using her own physical body and her molded […]

We invite you into our sacred circle to commune with the divine through the ecstatic music, dance, and poetry of Sufism with musicians Tomchess (ney, oud) and Dan Kurfirst (daf) of the American Sufi Project and our Sufi Dance student community. This concert, curated and directed by Sufi Dance Artist Lâle Sayoko, is CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 10, STRING NOISE, curated by gamin. Classical avant-punk violin duo String Noise will explore the Korean/contemporary music of noted Korean composer Ki Young Kim. curator: gamin musicians: String Noise (violin duo Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris) and gamin composer: Ki Young Kim This […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 11: ZERO GRASSES, curated, created and performed by Steinway Artist, Guggenheim Fellow and USA Fellow JEN SHYU (photo by Caterina Di Perri). This powerful autobiographical work arose out of an intense period of self-reflection following the sudden death of JEN SHYU's father and a […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 13: ON THE SILK ROAD THROUGH DUNHUANG, curated by GAMIN with music by the EURASIA CONSORTwith guest artist GAMIN and dance by KAESHI CHAI. This program celebrates the intoxicating musical and cultural influences that propagated along the legendary Silk Road and features music […]

Due to an outbreak of COVID, Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 16:  FOCUSING ON HER, which was scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 7 pm at Tenri Cultural Institute, has been postponed. We will announce the new date soon. Curated by multi-Instrumentalist gamin, this fifth season of Crossing Boundaries consists of […]

CRS presents Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 17:  THROUGH HER EYES on June 25, 2022 at 7 pm in the award-winning White Room at CRS. The program features three female musicians — gamin (piri, saenghwang), Jacqueline Kerrod (electric harp), and Mariel Roberts (cello) — and video by Sook Jin Jo from her art installations in Brazil and […]

CRS presents Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 18:  FREEDOM on July 16, 2022 at 7 pm in Marc A. Scorca Hall at The National Opera Center — OPERA America. The program, in celebration of women, features free improvisation by six acclaimed female musicians of different backgrounds: Ayumi Ishito (saxophone), gamin (Korean winds), Gelsey Bell (vocals), […]

CRS and Tenri Cultural Institute of NY present Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 16:  FOCUSING ON HER. The program features three AAPI female musicians — Amirtha Kidambi (Indian-American, voice/saxophone), Yoko Reikano Kimura (Japan, shamisen), and gamin (Korea, saenghwang) — improvising and performing music by female composers: Amirtha Kidambi (Indian-American), Yoko Sato (Japan), and Yoon-Ji Lee […]

CRS presents Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 19, curated by Maya Keren. Careful In The Sun traverses a verdant landscape of collective improvisation grounded in loops and songs by Maya Keren. The collective (Eliza Salem on drums, Anna Abondolo on fretless bass and voice, Emmanuel Michael on electric guitar, Eden Girma on voice and electronics, […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 20: When the Ancestors Speak, curated by Jen Shyu, a new work by Val Jeanty (SoundChemist), Jen Shyu (vocals, Taiwanese moon lute, Japanese biwa, Korean gayageum), & Sumi Tonooka (piano). The concert will take place on Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 6:30 pm […]

Part of the @Abrons Series at Abrons Art Center, OO / LL / IM is an interdisciplinary ritual performance – a passageway through which grief, entanglements, and historical cycles might reverberate and be witnessed. As artists of a diverse Korean continuum, gamin and kwon approach performance as spiritual spaces containing at once tradition and experimentalism, and through their explorations of improvisation, composition, text, and movement, they create openings for new syncretic lineages to emerge.

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Crossing Boundaries Concert Series vol. 22, gamin x elizabeth hoffman, curated by gamin, in the Immersion Room, Avery Fisher Center, on the 7th Floor of NYU's Bobst Library on Washington Square South. This concert explores the profound theme of crossing boundaries, a continuation of our series that invites […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Crossing Boundaries Concert Series vol. 23: "Unfolding Circle"by Oto Mugen. Led by Rema Hasumi (composition, piano, keyboards, vocals) with Adam Lane on acoustic bass and Randy Peterson on drums, the trio curates an immersive auditory journey, crafting a diverse array of soundscapes that gently lead listeners from introspective […]

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Crossing Boundaries Concert Series vol. 23: "Unfolding Circle"by Oto Mugen. Led by Rema Hasumi (composition, piano, keyboards, vocals) with Adam Lane on acoustic bass and Randy Peterson on drums, the trio curates an immersive auditory journey, crafting a diverse array of soundscapes that gently lead listeners from introspective […]