Catch asmr4apocalypse at Lincoln Center on July 17!

📍Lincoln Center, David Rubenstein Atrium
Catch the newest iteration of my multisensory and meditative and performance and sonic installation “asmr4apocalypse”. This free performance is part of Lincoln Center’s Summer in the City festival. Full info.

asmr4apocalypse in TIME SIGNATURE

📍Lincoln Center WSA | 180 Maiden Lane NYC

For DEMO2025, I installed asmr4apocalypse in Time Signature, the NEW INC Extended Realities showcase on view at WSA from June 4-22, 2025. Visitors took off their shoes, stepped into a space for rest and contemplation featuring soft sculptures by Libby Paloma, an altar co-created by myself with Cecilia McKinnon featuring McKinnon’s biomaterial concrete sculptures, and bioplastic enrobed branch sculptures I created for the installation as well as dried and bundled mugwort to aid audiences in dreaming of liberated futures. asmr4apocalypse’s meditative soundscape has binaural beats which calm and focus listeners’ brain waves and offers a somatic connection to the “deep time” of geological change, orienting viewers away from the pace of human institutions. Accompanied by a video of performance rooted in intimacy with the land, this sound installation encourages slowness and rest. During two ritual gatherings on June 18 and 21, I greeted visitors with herbal jellies made with mugwort tea which they could eat to help their lucid dreaming. 

A. Installation

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A rest space with a green wall, a pebbled foam floor mat, large cushions that look like boulders, a TV monitor on the ground, and branches hanging from the green wall and a metal grid in front of a wall of windows

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Past Performances

asmr4apocalypse trio at Vox Populi

April 26, 2025

Audiences entered Vox Populi, which featured installed biomaterial sculptures by Cecilia McKinnon and zavé martohardjono. In a pre-show ritual, performers Amalia Colon-Nava, Mel Krodman, and zavé offered edible mugwort jellies to attendees. Both the mugwort jellies and the dried mugwort bundles adorning the sculptures and pedestals help lucid dreaming. Relaxing into a meditative spatialized soundtrack that plays on four speakers in the room, and taking in performance, audiences visualize geological futures in which a monumental disaster-producing military office complex we all know falls apart and disintegrates back into the earth. Originally a solo dance work, this rendition of asmr4apocalypse shared new choreographic research cultivated in classes and workshops led by zavé in Spring 2025 in Philadelphia with support from the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the Penn Museum and Leah Stein Dance Studios.

A. Ritual

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zavé offers mugwort jellies, medicine for dreaming, to audiences before performance begins. Photographer Saif Almusawi

asmr4apocalypse solo at Brooklyn Arts Exchange

December 7, 2023

In December 2023, an in-progress sharing of asmr4apocalypse was presented at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, supported by a Fall 2023 Space Grant. This dance and sonic performance is an exercise in collective imagination and visualization of the eventual geological break down of human-powered institutions that create on-going wars and global destruction. Mugwort bundles, an herb for dreaming, hang in the space to help audiences tap into collective visualization. Protest gesture is called on to honor the ongoing labor of activist movements to end war and genocide.

Photo by Logan Zemetres

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asmr4apocalypse solo at Aidekman Arts Center

October 11 2023

Tufts University’s Aidekman Arts Center presented asmr4apocalypse in a performance symposium, Break/Down, curated and organized by Mac Irvine. Other artists presented in the symposium were Kama La Mackerel and María Rivera-Felizardo (P1NKSTAR). 

For this iteration, I wild harvested mugwort, a medicinal herb that spurs dreaming, from sidewalks and highways in Lenapehoking/NYC and Patuxet/Medford, to aid in the collective composting-dreaming process that this work aims to spur. I ended the performance by offering branches of mugwort to witnesses and requesting collective dreams for a demilitarized future. I performed outdoors with Richard Hunt’s “Planar Mountain”, a sculpture that marks the relationship between rock formations and industrial materials and the symbiotic relationship between people and nature. I adorned Hunt’s sculpture in mugwort bundles for this performance that, framed in Geological Time Scale, considers the eventual return of metals, stone, oxygen and other natural elements currently trapped in military complexes like the Pentagon back to the ecosystems they were once extracted from.

asmr4apocalypse solo at Artists Space

May 2023

The first iteration of asmr4apocalypse was presented at Artists Space for the Segue Reading Series curated by Le’Andra LeSeur and David Lindsay. Set to soundscape composed by Daphne Silbiger, this solo performance offers a composting of institutions that feel too big to metabolize, military structures that feel too powerful to disintegrate. Partly an exercise in collective imagination, asmr4apocalypse proposes we collectively visualize – and whisper into being, manifest – the break down of human-powered institutions that create on-going wars and global destruction of livelihood.