I kept a journal with me through most of my life. As the work got a little more movement-oriented, it became hard to capture what I do on paper and I lost touch with the beauty of things jotted down. Process, spontaneity, and the vulnerability of unfinished things. And I missed it.
So here’s to the mess of revival.
Works commissioned by Museum of Contemporary Art for:
WAR SONGS Performance & Production Credits
Concept, direction, and original script: Diane Severin Nguyen
Musical Director: Laszlo Horvath
Performers: Brock Bierly (Vocals and Drums); Sharleen Chidiac (Vocals and Guitar); Keizo Fish (Vocals and Keys); Leah Hennessey (Vocals and Guitar); Laszlo Horvath (Vocals and Guitar); Rachel Jihye Han (Vocals, Guitar, and Violin); Liana Kurogi (Vocals); Jurrell Lewis (Vocals); Kara Lu (Vocals and Drums); Emily Nunes (Vocals and Guitar); and Van To (Vocals and Guitar)
Studio Manager: Khanh Van Truong
Scenic Designer: Khanh Van Truong
Set Designer: Cherisse Gray
Lighting Designer: Sean Peloso
Costume Designer: Willa Schwabsky
Special Effects Engineer: Dearon Panossian
Production Assistant: Cléo Suong Mai Richez
Stills: Josh S. Rose
Performed at the Geffen Contemporary Performing Arts Space
The recorded sound of an art opening. Invited but excluded. And art exhibit without the art. Voices without the people. Enjoy the show.
Opening of “Weatherman,” a show by Nicholas Kontaxis. Los Angeles, Feb 18, 2026
A moment from FREE ALL NIGHT LONG, extrapolated, layered, interpreted.
Ensemble:
Mandolin Burns
Eliza Loran
Lena Martin
Scout Nankin
Mason Rose Gray
Created and Directed by:
Lena Martin, Mandolin Burns and Celeste Ollivier
Dramaturgy by: Rory James Leech
Sound Design by: Celeste Ollivier
Live Score by: Peyton Ellis
Lighting Design by: Rory James Leech
Costume Design by: Mandolin Burns and Lena Martin
Highways Technical Director: Darren Carter
EYE Performance Imagery.
Jacob Jonas The Company and Sara Mearns
Charlie Chaplin Theater. Los Angeles, Dec 2025.
A poem about time.
Click to start, click to stop.
With Alina Pash & Marco Palomino
Dec, 2025
Experiments in Scrolling
With Jacob Jonas The Company
Click to start, click to stop
Dec, 2025
THE PASSENGER
Explorations in relationships, shapes, composition in the liminal space of a train station. With Marco and Delisa.
Los Angeles, Jul 2023
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT FALL PERFORMANCE STILLS
Captured normally, the dramaturgy can feel forced or false. What is the role of photography if not to, at times, mess it up in an effort to have it feel more real?
Los Angeles, Nov 2025
JA COLLECTIVE
Playing around in a studio art space in downtown Los Angeles with Jordan and Aiden of JA COLLECTIVE, Anna Tse with me behind the cameras, a number of USC dance students and special guest appearance from Taja Riley.
Los Angeles, 2025
THE BIRDS
Lenio Kaklea’s new work, THE BIRDS, shot for THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART at the Geffen Contemporary Performing Art Space.
Los Angeles, Nov 2025
SENDING OUT SMALL PULSES
Experimental prompt with Luca Renzi. A brief study in the futility and grace of reaching out. The poetry of desperation, of wanting to be seen by that which cannot/won’t stop long enough to look back.
Malibu, 2025
TIRED
A contemplation on time. This series entailed documenting the passing of the sun across the sky as experienced on a pile of tires. The play of movement in contrast to stationary objects whose purpose is movement seemed somehow pertinent. Maybe only to my own sense of aging… or tiring?
Photography. Los Angeles, 2023
ACOUSTIC DRAMATURGY
Experimental filmmaking process that begins with found audio and develops into a combination of gestures and phrases.
Choreography: MARCO PALOMINO
Film: JOSH S. ROSE
Los Angeles, 2025
MAXIMALISM
A recent shoot with BFA 2 dance students at CALARTS, exploring interconnection, overlapping and intertwined forms.
Choreography: DIMITRI CHAMBLASS
Image: JOSH S. ROSE
Photographs
Los Angeles, 2025
SUNSETS IN OIL
I was shooting parking spaces with their oil-stained asphalt and turning them upside down. How will we stay warm, find beauty, or warm our hands on the warm glow of engine oil lights when it all goes electric?
Los Angeles, 2023
THE STANDOUTS
We endeavor: run, shop, culture, flaunt and add flair. Why? To be more than who we are? To stretch beyond our limits. To be big.
BOUNDARIES
A series about the human body, our edges, boundaries and the mysterious place where I end and you begin.
Los Angeles, 2020
