In Conversation w/ Kayla Tange: Diaspora, Adoption, & Creative Resistence
A dialogue between Midori and Kayla Tange on survival, memory, and belonging across the Asian diaspora and Korean adoptee experience.
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
12 pm Pacific / 1 pm Mountain / 2 pm Central / 3 pm Eastern
Free for Patreon Supporters $5/mo+
http://Patreon.com/PlanetMidori
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Kayla Tange (b. South Korea) is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist working in video, installation, sculpture, and performance. Adopted into a Japanese American family, her work reclaims personal and collective histories through archival practices, found materials, and text, exploring themes of belonging, displacement, and transformation.
Performing as Coco Ono, Tange addresses spectatorship, labor, and bodily autonomy, using dark humor and satire to confront the commodification of emotional and physical labor. Her work frequently blurs the line between art, performance, and social practice, as seen in co-created shows Stripper Co-op, Cyber Clown Girls, Sacred Wounds, and Private Practices: AAPI Artist and Sex Worker Collection at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive. Collaboration and community-building are central to her practice, transforming stories of shame into symbolic value, while addressing psychic boundaries, desire, and permanence.
Tange’s work has been presented at Wexner Center for the Arts, Human Resources, Coagula Curatorial, and Highways Performance Space, with performances and screenings at REDCAT, OUTFEST, Asian
Her practice has been featured in PAPER, LA Times, LA Weekly, and X-TRA.
WEBSITES:
- Oct 01 2025
- Expired!
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
