Dance / Film
New York, NY
October 2023, 4 weeks
Cherrie Yu is an artist who works in choreography, moving images, writing, and installation. She has produced dance films, lecture performances, and documentaries. In her current work, she is exploring questions, such as exploring moving images as a storage for collective memory, and the function of avant-garde art in relation to the forces of colonial dispossession. At the Anderson Center, Yu worked on editing short video pieces of Rustie Gunther, a bookbinder from Turkey, Lin Huangzhang, a ping pong coach from Taiwan, Renluka Maharaj, a Trinidadian painter and photographer, and Vicky Shick, a long time New York choreographer. These videos present a portrait of them through the process of reenactment. Her works have been exhibited in museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL and the Mint Museum in North Carolina.