I make work with mime, movement, and installations. I perform and make my work as ‘youngtseng' or ‘Young Tseng' from my given name 仰正.
In my work I often experience shifts of perspective when I pay close attention to how and where I move and stand. The connections around and between myself, other bodies, and the temporary space we share flow and change from moment to moment. I try to bring this experience of present moments into everything I make. In doing so I hope to share a bubble of time into which you and I can breathe together, listen, and find possibilities for change.
One of my grandmother's admonishments, embedded in me from a young age.
Extract from durational process video.
Complete video 7mins 46secs at https://vimeo.com/user40838186/grandmother-said
January 2017.
MFA Thesis show, installation view.
Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California.
April 2015.
Durational process video — extract.
Recorded lying down with arms held straight up.
Complete video 76mins. Extract shown here from final 10mins of video.
January 2015.
Durational process video — extract.
Recorded standing with arms held straight forward.
Complete video 48mins. Extract shown here from final 10mins of video.
August 2014.
We Saw Ourselves Dreaming — A Film By Giraffe Studios.
Written, Produced, Designed, Directed, Starring, and Edited by Nicola and Juliana Giraffe / Giraffe Studios.
The Camera Figure (in film portion): Young Tseng.
Complete film, production stills, information, and bios at mimemovie.com — https://www.giraffestudiosla.com/mimemovie
Collaborative performance commemorating the 1871 Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre. Performed at Scripps College, October 21, 2021.
Original music by Micah Huang and Emma Gies.
Musicians: Micah Huang, Emma Gies, Chi-Wei Lo, and Xiaopei Xu.
Principal narrator: Hao Huang.
Choreography: Kevin Williamson.
Dance: Scripps College Dance.
Movement solo devised and performed by: Young Tseng.
Video courtesy of Scripps College Public Events.
Complete event video at https://vimeo.com/649262344
bless your name music video by jess joy off the album PATREEARCHY out on Joyful Noise Recordings.
Director, mime, co-choreographer and costume designer: jess joy.
Mime and co-choreographer: Young Tseng.
Director of photography: Nicola Giraffe / Giraffe Studios.
Silver mask by Yozmit.
Work-in-progress showing for one-day dance event live-streamed and in-person in Hamburg, Atlanta, New York City, and Los Angeles. Live-streamed on howlround.tv, Sunday 24 June, 2018.
Los Angeles Performances workshopped and curated by Alyson Wyper / Rhizomatic Studios, featuring choreography by Bernard Brown and work-in-progress pieces created by Karine Fluerima, Sophie Goldstein, J. Alex Mathews, and Young-Tseng Wong.
Complete Los Angeles Performances at https://youtu.be/Pe2EyT0ymCc
The Dancer-Citizen Live 2018 MOVING THE MAP, hosted by Howlround Theatre Commons, howlround.com.
Produced with The Dancer Citizen, dancercitizen.org at https://howlround.com/happenings/dancer-citizen-live-2018
Music video for The Air in Time by Rachel Grimes.
Camera and edit by Greg King.
Choreography by Ashley Steimer-King and the ensemble.
Performers:
Melina Bielefelt, Stephen Buchanan, Ali Chen, Stacey Jack, Marcella Lentz-Pope, Israel Lopez, Lea Madda, Jessica Moreno, Tara Turnbull, Andrea Tzvetkov, and Young Tseng Wong.
Video courtesy of Greg King.
The Air in Time by Rachel Grimes.
Scott Moore, violin.
Rachel Grimes, piano.
LOSCIL — processing.
From the album The Clearing,
Temporary Residence Ltd.
Mossgrove Music / BMI
Extract from 3-hour Walk performance meditation in Claremont campuses, California, echoing simultaneous Walk by Yozmit in New York City on October 6, 2012.
Video by Shamini Dias.
Composition in movement and words about our human desire to leave the ground and fly.
Devised and directed in collaboration with Thomas Leabhart.
Texts by Gaston Bachelard, Marina Warner, and William Carlos Williams, used with permission of the publishers.
Additional texts by Octave Chanute, BC Kites Canada, Orville and Wilbur Wright, and Young Tseng.
First performed at Pomona College, May 2011.
Collaborative performance with the Pomona College Gamelan Ensemble Giri Kusuma and I Nyoman Wenten, May 2010.
Directed by I Nyoman Wenten.
Original music composed by Tyler Yamin and performed by POMONA COLLEGE GAMELAN ENSEMBLE ‘Giri Kusuma’.
Video ©Pomona College Music Department.
Performance on site, Pomona College, Claremont, California.
Devised and performed by Young Tseng.
Video by Chris Sibley and Rebecca Karpovsky.
Corporeal Mime work demonstration.
Text by Margaret Read Macdonald, A Storytelling Parable, from Three-Minute Tales.
Pomona College, Claremont. December 2008.
Performed at NOHspace, San Francisco, and Robert Wilson Watermill Center, Long Island. Re-staged for video documentation at Pomona College, 2008.
Devised, choreographed, and directed by Kira Alker and Elke Luyten.
Performed by Elke Luyten, Ben Acland, Jocelyn Matsuo, Young-Tseng Wong.
Lighting design by James Taylor.
Video by Ben Acland and Jocelyn Matsuo.
Ensemble performance devised for the Poor Theatre Festival at The Theatre Practice, Singapore, 2005.
Directed by Kuo Jing Hong.
Design by Ong Guat Teng.
Devised and performed by Kuo Jing Hong, Emanorwatty Saleh, Liu Xiaoyi, Young-Tseng Wong.
Video courtesy of The Theatre Practice, Singapore.
Duo with Fabio Sforzini. Text by Gertrude Stein.
Wars I Have Seen was devised by the performers, directed by Thomas Leabhart and presented by Hippocampe—Association pour Recherche en Mime Corporel, Paris, 2003.
Performance film by Laszlo Horvath.
Extract from durational process video for Mine & Yours, a virtual group exhibition curated by Renae Barnard, July 10-August 15, 2020.
Complete one-hour durational process video at https://vimeo.com/439480124
Preparation video at https://vimeo.com/434213152