Ayu's Dreamlife bio- yup

 Ayumi's Bio

 

 I explore the world through performance, where the body works with and through worlds that are encountered. I swallow the worlds in as much as they devour me. As an embodied, diasporic artist and thinker, i draw upon the writings of Neo-Buddhist modernist philosopher, Nishida Kitarō, who articulated thinking is an outcome of the lived body. Just like one's sweat, tears, skin, blood, and faeces, thought is a secondary characteristic of the body in motion rather than being a prime mover. We breathe/live/act therefore we are...together. Raised in a pan-Asian, multi-directional, multi-linguistic diasporic setting, i was taught that gestures speak more loudly than words and that we live with one another in variegated states of impermanence. It is of utmost importance to me that these temporary engagements are encased by love eternal and that within these segmented interactions, no one is ever left behind. Am fascinated by temporally and spatially impressed shape-shifting, and how these transformations might expand our understanding of the healthy body. Health in this case is not restricted to humans but is a comprehensive encompassing of human and nonhuman interrelations. I work in collaboration with human, nonhuman, dreams, and hope. 

Also, ayu loves to run...a lot...!