Hwa Records
Facilitators
Photo Credit: Matt Odom
Kayla Tange is a Los Angeles based artist and cultural producer who was born in South Korea and adopted by a Japanese American family. Her love for poetry and photography slowly progressed into a conceptual performance practice. Physical and psychic boundaries, sexuality and permanence are also recurring themes. She is the co-producer of Sacred Wounds, an online show focused around ritual, subverting cultural stereotypes and ancestral healing for Asian performers. Tange is also known as “the erotic conceptualist” under the performer name Coco Ono where she expresses racial stereotyping, emotional, physical, and societal confines – often in dark humor. Coupling her experiences, while recalibrating her own sexuality, the work is created to facilitate meaningful dialogue around our need for connection and belonging. Her work has been performed or exhibited at Human Resources, Highways Performance Space, REDCAT, Torrance Art Museum, Performance Studies International, Melbourne, OUTFEST and Asian Pacific Film Festival.
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Photo Credit: Kayla Tange
Caroline Yoo is an artist and community builder performing history. Born in Lawrence, Kansas to Korean immigrants, Yoo’s lived experiences in Anglo-suburbia as an immigrant child as well as her time in Los Angeles surrounded by joyous Asian diasporic culture, have informed her art practice of searching for radical existence in creating safe spaces that allows her communities to dream wild, process unheard traumas, or create grounds for new futures. Using social practice, workshops, and experimental performance, Yoo creates to imagine alternative education, unravel cultural colonialism, and pose questions on assumed narratives based on the consumption of othered bodies.
Yoo has performed, exhibited, and culturally produced at Carnegie Museum of Art, McDonough Museum of Art, University of Southern California, LA Art Show, and more. Yoo graduated Washington University in St. Louis with a BFA in Studio Art (2017) and was based in Los Angeles before enrolling in the MFA program at the Carnegie Mellon School of Art (2023).
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Saewon Oh is a second generation Korean-American artist, healer, energy worker, earth lover and founder of Sun Song, an embodied research lab for plant collaboration, planetary healing and vibrational essence therapy.
Saewon builds a bridge between the human and plant worlds using guided meditation, somatic exploration, potion making, sound and movement. She also teaches workshops, offers 1:1 session work and performs for her personal art and healing practice.
Saewon studied folk herbalism at Berkeley Herbal Center, plant spirit medicine at The Gaia School of Healing and worked at an experimental tea house in Seoul where she lived between 2010-2013. She has taught and/or performed at the Golden Dome School, Hammer Museum, Current LA, The Mortuary, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Commonwealth and Council, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Seraphim Dream, and VPAM Arts.
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Roger Kim is a multidisciplinary artist who tells stories with text, music, moving graphics, dance, and interactive electronics. His recent works draw heavily from Korean history and traditional Korean musical performance practice, while examining the effect of Korea’s traumatic modern history on both diasporic and native Koreans. Roger has performed and exhibited with REDCAT, the YBCA New Frequencies Festival, CultureHub LA, Re-Fest, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Aperture Duo, the Westben Performer/Composer Residency, ICA SF and the California Institute of the Arts. He has received grants and awards from UC Berkeley, CultureHub LA, SFCMP, and the California Institute of the Arts.
Collaborators
Andrew Sungtaek Ingersoll
Robo-gayageum builder
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Born in Los Angeles, CA and raised just outside of Camp Pendleton, the Marine Corp base north of San Diego, Andrew Sungtaek Ingersoll (b.1993) is a sculptor and multimedia artist pulling from two familial lineages, one of US military service members, and the other of Korean immigrants. Utilizing elements from traditional Korean crafts and music combined with commonly manufactured items such as sporting equipment and domestic objects, Ingersoll creates sculptural inventions, rituals, and installations through processes of wood and metal fabrication, DIY robotics, and self-taught engineering.
Kyungwon Song
filming and graphic design
Kyungwon Song is a Korean-born independent animator based in California. Her animations often depict non-fiction subjects, and her main media are early film technique and stop-motion. The films she directed have been shown internationally at numerous film festivals including Busan International Film Festival, Annecy, Ann Arbor, Visions du Réel, 25 FPS Festival, and more. Kyungwon directed a PSA for gender equality campaign of UN Women, HeForShe, and her latest film, Jesa, won Best Women Director at Argo Untold Stories Short Film Awards 2020, Public Jury Prize at Indie-AniFest 2020, and Best Documentary Shorts at Indie Memphis Film Festival.
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Richard An
performance
RICHARD AN (b.1995) is a composer and performer, born and raised in Los Angeles. Richard’s primary ambitions as a performer lie in interpretations of modern and contemporary music, and has performed music by many living and dead composers. Richard performs with stickytack (a piano+ duo), house on fire (a new music trio) and quartet friends (a 2pno 2perc quartet), and has performed with Monday Evening Concerts’ Echoi Ensemble and The Industry on piano and percussion and voice, and has been known to conduct and teach. His music has been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Calder Quartet, members of Yarn/Wire, HOCKET, Resound Duo, Great Noise Ensemble, and more. Richard has a Bachelor of Music in Composition from the University of Southern California and a Master of Fine Art from the California Institute of the Arts. He plays taiko and tabla, and makes YouTube videos.
More Special Thanks to:
Yeon Park - videography
Meehee Hanbok - for custom designing and fabricating our HWA hanbok
Yoon Lee - for making our logo and first graphic in 2021
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