LINEUP
ALL THINGS SHINING
All Things Shining is an experimental improvisational quartet exploring the communal connections that bind people across all communities in times of conflict. Featuring Marcus Elliot, Jon Monteverde, Chace Morris, and Chien-An Yuan
Music Group
KIM DEBORD
An artist and educator with over twenty years of experience as a freelance creative, Kim currently works with Invisible Engines, LLC providing design and strategy for non-profits and social justice organizations. In addition to graphic design, Kim has applied her creative problem solving skills and holistic approach to art and exhibitions, special events, interiors and spaces, and textiles and fashion. She is affiliated with Is/Land performance collective and is a co-founder of Cluster Museum. She is a passionate advocate for community arts and is involved with the Ann Arbor Art Center and Riverside Arts Center in Ypsilanti. Kim earned her BFA in fibers from the University of Michigan, AAS in fashion design from Parsons School of Design, and her MFA, as a trustee merit scholar in fibers and material studies from the Art Institute of Chicago.
https://kimdebord.com/
Visual Artist / Educator
Journalist / ProducerZOSETTE GUIR
Zosette Guir oversees content operations and production for Detroit PBS’ award-winning news and public affairs programs, “One Detroit” and “American Black Journal.” She is a second-generation Filipina American who believes in storytelling that reflects people’s daily lived experiences.
Guir is managing producer for Detroit PBS’ One Detroit, a news and public affairs program grounded in immersive community engagement. In her current position, she works with producers across the station’s local news and public affairs programs and leads its Asian American and Pacific Islander Advisory Committee comprised of community stakeholders within southeast Michigan.
Her work has been honored with awards by the Society of Professional Journalists Detroit Chapter, the Michigan Association of Broadcasters and the Michigan Emmys. She currently serves as the governing board representative for the Michigan Chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association.
Interdisciplinary Performance CollectiveIS/LAND
IS/LAND is an interdisciplinary Performance Collaborative composed of AAPI artists and collaborators. Our performances center movement, storytelling, and aesthetics as processes to explore the extensive and diverse landscape of AAPI lived experience, including an increased focus on optimizing audience engagement through reflection, education, and dialogue.
IS/LAND performances and exhibitions include the Cranbrook Art Museum, Links Hall, Detroit Institute of Arts, A2AC Gallery, AADL - Downtown, and Spread Arts.
IS/LAND has been commissioned by Synapse Arts, Pivot Arts, and the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation.
MARO KARIYA / OTODOJO
Otodojo (Maro Kariya, PhD) is an audiovisual artist who wishes to use multimedia to connect and motivate people towards changing systems that threaten environments.
They weave together sonic stories through field and object recordings, processed vocals, contact-micced materials, and layers of synthetic sounds inspired by the natural world and imagined bio-cybernetic futures.
Their music has been released with labels such as The Bunker NY, Acid Camp, Mesma, Perimeter Junk, Qeone, Unimatrix Zero, UFO Parfums, and others. Their album ‘Amphibious / Aural Spirits’ has been named one of the best albums of 2023 by MixMag.
Interdisciplinary Artist
A.H. KIM
A.H. Kim (Ann) was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to the U.S. as a young child. Ann was educated at Harvard College and Berkeley Law School, where she was an editor of the California Law Review. Ann practiced corporate law for many years and served as chief of staff to the CEO and as head of investor relations at a Fortune 200 company.
Ann's debut novel, A GOOD FAMILY, was inspired by her personal experience supporting her brother and nieces while her sister-in-law served time in Alderson Women’s Prison Camp.
Ann’s second novel, RELATIVE STRANGERS is a contemporary retelling of Sense and Sensibility and explores themes of love, loss, grief, and forgiveness.
Author
Bill has produced, written, directed and lensed local, regional and national documentaries for broadcast since the 1980s. His national projects include co-producing the Dupont Columbia Journalism award-winning “Beyond the Light Switch” series for Detroit PBS.
He directed the PBS documentary “The Ethanol Effect” for Detroit PBS. With his production company KDN Films, he directed “Lustron: The House America’s Been Waiting For” working with Ohio State University Public Television and the primetime national network broadcast of “Most Honorable Son” presented by PBS and NET Nebraska.
His work has also appeared on PBS News Hour, ABC News, CBS News and ESPN. He’s worked as a producer, photographer, on-air reporter and news assignment manager for television stations in Lansing, Flint and Detroit. He’s currently working on short films looking at the major issues facing Detroit.
Journalist / FilmmakerBILL KUBOTA
Artist / Film Director / PhotojournalistNA FOREST LIM
na forest lim (they/them) is an autistic, queer, and trans artist, film director, and photojournalist living across Seoul and Detroit, both of which are their homes and sources of inspiration.
As the founder of radical play, forest crafts narratives alongside Detroit and Seoul, South Korea QTBIPOC artists. They seek to infuse tenderness as a form of intentional care and counterstory by lifting up narratives of communities who have historically not been granted that privilege such as people of color, immigrants, the disabled, sex workers, femmes, and queer and trans folx. forest highlights their subject's strength, resilience and rich tapestries of varying voices as a tool for people to feel inspired to excavate their power.
forest selected to a 2024 Kresge Arts Fellow in Film Directing, their films have garnered recognition at numerous international festivals, including LA Black Film Fest, Black Alphabet Film Festival, and Queer World Film Festival and many other places around the world from Seattle to Fargo, Ypsilanti to Leeds, United Kingdom, from North Carolina to Brussels, from Paris back to Detroit, and more.
JOO WON PARK
Joo Won Park makes music with electronics, toys, and other sources that he can record or synthesize. He is the recipient of the Knight Arts Challenge Detroit (2019) and the Kresge Arts Fellowship (2020). His music and writings are available on ICMC DVD, Spectrum Press, MIT Press, PARMA, Visceral Media, MCSD, SEAMUS, and No Remixes labels. He currently teaches Music Technology at Wayne State University.
Read and watch more about Joo Won in The Key Magazine (2013), Two-Five-One (2015), Cleveland Classical (2019), Killscreen Magazine (2019), The D Brief (2021), and Relevant Tones (2024).
Musician / Composer
KRISTINE PATNUGOT
Kristine Patnugot is a Manila-born, Detroit-raised writer/producer. Grown in LA and NY editing rooms, Kristine’s creative journey of documentary, television and commercial work has shaped an acute awareness of character and story. She has worked globally on award-winning documentary, television, and commercial productions for over a decade, is co-creator/writer of VH1’s TRANSform Me and producer/writer of the documentary, Style Exposed: Born Male, Living Female for the Style Network. Most recently, Kristine produced, wrote and directed the internet cooking series, Make Food Not Waste, which showcases the innovative ways Detroit immigrant and BIPOC chefs practice sustainability. As a producer, Kristine is committed to increasing access for and amplifying the stories of women, immigrant BIPOC and LGBTQ folx while promoting civic action and sustainability.
Filmmaker / Producer
Born and raised in Japan, Toko Shiiki spent most of her life in Tokyo before moving to Michigan in 2005. Toko’s pursuit of using photography as a narrative medium inspired her to explore documentary filmmaking, where she delights in meeting fascinating people and sharing their stories with the world. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and has earned multiple awards like The International Photography Awards.
Since 2012, Toko has produced several documentary shorts, covering subjects like Japanese writers in University of Iowa's renowned International Writing Program, and an award-winning sake chief brewer. She made her feature-length debut three years later with "Threshold: Whispers of Fukushima", and the sequel film “Over The Sky”, which chronicled how Fukushima residents weathered the 2011 nuclear power plant disaster, earning an Accolade Global Film Competition Award (Documentary Feature, Contemporary Issues/Awareness Raising) and a Hometown Media Awards in the category of "documentary independent producer" by Alliance for Community Media, and nominated Nonfiction competition by Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2019 - “Passing the Baton”. In 2023, PBS distributed Shiiki's short documentary, "A Thousand Pebbles on the Ground," which earned an Emmy nomination at the 55th Annual NATAS Central Great Lakes Chapter Regional Emmy® Awards.
Filmmaker / PhotographerTOKO SHIIKI
Producer / DJSTEADY FLIGHT CIRCLE
Thomas Xu is a producer and DJ who creates music that dissolves boundaries between genres and strangers. He debuted with Roots That Talk, a split EP with Julion De’Angelo, released on Theo Parrish’s label Sound Signature. His own label, Steady Flight Circle, champions weird and honest music. Xu recently released his new album, The Heart of the Matter, which contains transpositions from leaving Detroit in 2020 to Thomas Xu’s return from Chicago in 2024. In its intention, Xu’s music is in gratitude for the village and ancestry that supported and enabled Thomas’s existence.
Projections provided by Otodojo.
LINH MY TRUONG
Linh My Truong is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working with textiles, video, and electronics. Through her exploration of the Japanese marbling art of suminagashi and her penchant for hard geometric forms, her work finds a place between chaos theory and an ordered universe. Her application of technology uses light to create immersive art installations, bringing traditional art forms into the 21st century.
Interdisciplinary Artist / Educator
MICHELLE YANG
Michelle Yang is a writer and former NAMI volunteer leader who lives with bipolar disorder. In her new memoir, “Phoenix Girl: How a Fat Asian with Bipolar Found Love,” she writes about struggling with her mental health as a teenager, navigating life after diagnosis, and finding love and hope.
Author
Julie Zhu is a composer, artist, and carillonist.
She entangles various media, from mural painting and sculpture to performance and video, and collaborates with artists from different fields to create experimental chamber experiences.
As a carillonist, she concertizes around the world and was the resident carillonneur at Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue in New York City before moving to California.
Zhu studied at Yale University (BA mathematics, BA art), the Royal Carillon School (Diploma carillon performance), Hunter College (MFA art), and Stanford University (DMA composition). She is currently a presidential postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan.
Composter / Artist / Carillonist