ACCELERATOR Artist Profile: Crystal Sasaki
“I’m working with whatever is in the room. I’m working with the day. I’m working with what I’m moving through personally. And what it feels like is going on in the world at the time.”
ACCELERATOR Artist Profile: Jeonghyeon Joo
“I was like, I don’t just want to perform, I don’t just want to compose, and I was getting into improvisation. I just got introduced to the underground experimental music scene in Seoul and I discovered there are so many cool people who think outside the box and music practices out there that I never thought about and that school never taught.”
ACCELERATOR Artist Profile: Tanya White
“Making work and creating spaces to share it matters. The act of sharing is just as important as the content. We need to honor interiority, connect in ways that go beyond words, and keep responding to the world as it is.”
ACCELERATOR Artist Profile: VORA
“When you play an instrument, your body almost becomes part of that instrument. You co-resonate with that instrument in a way where you’re working together in this very physical partnership, like a dance.”
ACCELERATOR Artist Profile: Emma Irene Olson
“Clown has taken a lot of pressure off my own work, and it made me less afraid of how I’ll be received and more willing to take risks without needing things to feel polished.”
ACCELERATOR Artist Profile: Teila Theisen
“It can be isolating and disheartening to be the only person of color in a room, especially in spaces dominated by older white men who hold the keys to the city. What helps is knowing that many women of color are doing this work all over the world, even if we don’t always see each other.”
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