Performed among other works offered by Mobius Artists Group members at the 100 Years of Performance (Version #4, 2012) Exhibition, 2x in a Living Room and a Kitchen explores the obscurity of functional living space and its accompanying problems of communication.

Movement by Sara June and Yuka Takahashi, Live Sound by Max Lord

Yuka Takahashi is a dancer, performer, and choreographer born and raised in Japan. After graduating from High school she moved to NYC to attend Joffrey Ballet School. While she was in NY she explored her interest in Modern/ contemporary dance and performing arts. Yuka has performed under the direction of Ori Flomin, Kriota Willberg, Rachel List among others. In 2006 she moved to Vienna, Austria. There, Yuka regularly presented dance, installations and performing arts. She received a two-year residency at LABfactory and short residency at D.ID. While she was in Vienna, she was strongly engaged with artists of other disciplines. One of her collaborative works, with Urusula Endlicher, was performed at the art exhibition of SIGGRAPH ASIA2009 in Yokohama, Japan. Since she moved to Boston in May 2011, she has presented her own work at Mobius, performed Trisha Brown’s work at the ICA, and performed at the BCA as well as other institutions.

Max Lord is a Boston-based improvisor who has worked in a variety of rock, noise, electronic and improv settings. Though originally identifying as a percussionist, since 2000 he has performed with Buchla electronic instruments including the Marimba Lumina, an exotic mallet controller. His recorded work as Ghost Grass recalls mid-century electronic experimentation as often as more modern improvised approaches, and is intimately tied to the magnetic medium on which it is created.

As a collaborator and organizer, he is closely associated with the experimental movement community. He often accompanies choreographer Sara June and her company Umi No Bodi. They present collaborative improvised work as a duo, and with other movement artists through their Zeroplan performance series. In 2009, Max became a member of the Mobius Artist Group. You can find more at http://www.ghostgrass.com

Sara June is an American experimental movement improviser and performance artist. Her movement work is rooted in improvisation and collaboration. Whenever possible, she works with live musicians and open scores in performance settings that allow for experimentation and the unexpected. Her solo work is grounded in the study of primitive animal and machine movements and is motivated by the regression of consciousness into earlier biologically-evolved forms. SJ is well-known for her work w simple robots such as the ‘Twitchie’ and the PLEO AI systems.

Her artistic training and influences span Japanese experimental movement and theater methods, butoh, contemporary western improvisational styles, equipment-based movement, training as a visual artist, and as a social scientist and researcher. She has presented work in venues throughout the US and Canada since 1994. She has been an Artist in Residence at the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (Brooklyn, NY), the Bumpkin Island Art Encampment (Boston Harbor Islands), and Bridgewater State University (Upcoming in 2012).

SJ currently collaborates and performs with a number of projects including the Sounds and Signs collaborative (with Liz Roncka, Olivier Besson, Haggai Cohen-Milo, and Amir Milstein), duet work with percussionist Max Lord, composers John Morrison, Matt Samolis, and Matthew Everett and choreographers Yuka Takahashi and Nathan Andary. Since 2007, she has co-curated the locally popular Zeroplan Performance Series with Max Lord which has featured a bevy of acclaimed national and international experimental musicians and dancers in salon style performances. She has been a member of the Mobius Artists Group since 2009. SJ holds degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard University, and Boston University.