uta tamate weiss, fragmented moon 🩸 🩸 🩸 blood vessel 《破碎月光🩸 🩸 🩸 血管》

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Water simultaneously separates Chinatown’s diasporic community from their homeland and connects them to it. In fragmented moon 🩸 🩸 🩸 blood vessel, uta tamate weiss and kai tseng explore water’s paradoxical role as a both a pathway and a boundary, geographically and generationally. Performing with taiko drums and guzheng zithers, uta and kai ask the viewers to contemplate the channels connecting memories of the body, from generation to generation, through what they refer to as “blood waterways”. Through these waterways, each one of us as blood vessels/water bearers carry and transmit the stories of our human and nonhuman ancestors. The artists question “How can we reconcile the violence done to the womb and honor the creation of life? What bloodshed begins and ends with us? Which cosmovisions do we choose to carry forward?”

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About uta tamate weiss

uta tamate weiss is an energy worker, birth guardian, and drum keeper of japanese and yiddish descent. she was born and raised on ramaytush ohlone land, and engages film, poetry, performance, and music to house prayers for lineage healing for all of us impacted by legacies of colonialism and displacement from land, culture, and body. she facilitates healing containers for womb bearing people who have experienced pregnancy loss, and uplifts the remembrance of ancestral and cosmic inheritance. she is currently directing a magical realist hybrid film called kizuna, about the spirit of an aborted baby born into the body of a drum.

 

水既將華埠的華裔社區與他們的祖國分開，又同時將他們與祖國聯繫起來。在《破碎的月光🩸🩸🩸血管》中，uta tamate weiss 和 kai tseng 探索了水在地理和世代上，作為通道和邊界的矛盾角色。Uta和Kai透過太鼓和古箏演奏，讓觀眾思考，通過他們所說的“血緣”，一代傳一代地透過身體將記憶傳承下去。透過血緣，我們每個人作為血管/承載者傳承我們人類和非人類祖先的故事。藝術家們提出疑問：我們如何調和性暴力並尊重生命的創造？從哪裏開始流血，又從哪裏結束？我們選擇弘揚哪些觀念呢？

Uta Tamate Weiss 是一位具有日本和意第緒血統的能量治療師和人生領航員。她在ramaytush ohlone的土地上出生和長大，透過電影、詩歌、表演和音樂，為所有受到殖民主義禍害和被逼遠離家鄉、文化和身體的人治愈祈禱。她為那些經歷過流產之痛的人祈福、並強調了要緬懷祖先和傳承宇宙遺產。她目前正在執導一部名為《絆》的魔幻寫實電影，講述一個流產嬰兒的靈魂依附在一個鼓裏的故事。