Supermoon Crawl
Featuring a Performance by Jiabao Li and choreographed by Rosemary Candelario
Join us on Thursday, October 17th, as we celebrate the biggest supermoon of the year with a night of themed vendors, artmaking, and a special performance by multidisciplinary artist Jiabao Li. This event is inspired by The Contemporary Austin’s Fall 2024 exhibitions, blending nature and technology. Experience the magic of the supermoon as it illuminates the night sky at Laguna Gloria, where we’ll explore the intersection between these celestial phenomena and earthly creatures, including a cricket performance.
Enjoy complimentary drinks and snip away to reveal a twinkling nighttime landscape at our Supermoon Shadow Box station. The University of Texas at Austin Biodiversity Center Entomology Collections will also join us by presenting their bug collection andleading a bug walk around Laguna Gloria led by Dr. Alex Wild, Curator of Entomology at The University of Texas at Austin. Attendees can learn more about them and the bugwalk during the event.
Headlining the evening is multidisciplinary artist Jiabao Li, who will be presenting her new performance Wings Against the Veil of Night beginning at 7:30pm in the amphitheater. Lì’s seven-sequence performance combines her practice of technology and scientific experiment where five Butoh dancers enact cricket behaviors from mating rituals to weather patterns through “chirping” with their 3D printed cricket wings, designed and produced by Joy Deng from Li’s Ecocentric Future Lab. On the way to the amphitheater, grab your cricket-diet-inspired snack box to eat during the performance.
An overview of the evening’s schedule is below!
6P Doors Open & Event Begins
6-7:15P Enjoy educational and art related activities & grab refreshments in the oval
6:45-7:15P Tag along for a Bug Tour led by Dr. Alex Wild. Please Meet at The University of Texas at Austin Biodiversity Center Entomology Collections table to participate!
7:30-8:30P Performance Wings Against the Veil of Night down at the amphitheater
9P Grounds Close
Thank you to those that have contributed to the performance:
Director: Jiabao Li
Co-Directors: Rosemary Candelario, Joy Deng
Producer: Jiabao Li
Concept: Joy Deng, Jiabao Li
Choreographer: Rosemary Candelario
Cricket wing design: Joy Deng
Butoh dancers: Rosemary Candelario, Jonathan Pattiwael, Irving Maldonado (Chukki), Katherine Vaughn
Sound design: Richard Hall
Costume design: Siyu Fang
Set design: Ceren Ozgen
For accommodations, please email [email protected] in advance.
ABOUT JIABAO LI
Jiabao Li creates works addressing climate change, interspecies co-creation, humane technology, and perceptions. Her mediums include wearable, robot, AR/VR, performance, scientific experiment, installation. In Jiabao’s TED Talk, she uncovered how technology mediates the way we perceive reality. Jiabao is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin and the founding director of the Ecocentric Future Lab. Recent solo exhibitions include “Progenitorial Hysteresis”, “Ecological Soup: Interspecies Encounters”, and “Perception Omnifold”.
Jiabao is the recipient of numerous awards, including Forbes China 30 Under 30, iF Design Award, Falling Walls, NEA, STARTS Prize, Fast Company, Core77, IDSA, A’ Design Award, Webby Award, Cannes World Film Festival Award, and Outstanding Instructor Award. Her work has been exhibited internationally, at Venice Architecture Biennale, MoMA, Ars Electronica, Exploratorium, Today Art Museum Biennial, Milan and Dubai Design Week, ISEA, Anchorage Museum, Museum of Design. Her academic papers have been published in top conferences and journals including SIGGRAPH, CHI, IEEE VIS, and Nature sub-journals. She graduated from Harvard GSD with Distinction and thesis award.
ABOUT ROSEMARY CANDELARIO
Photo: Michael Modeck
Rosemary Candelario is an artist-scholar specializing in butoh, which she has studied, taught, and performed across the United States and around the world. Her books and articles on butoh and butoh-related forms have been published in English and Japanese, and she was awarded the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research in 2018. Recent choreographic works include aqueous (site version 2021, 2022, 2024), aqueous (stage version 2019), and 100 Ways to Kiss the Trees (2018). Her multimedia collaborative installation with Bronwyn Preece, a/new, will premiere in British Columbia, Canada in 2024. Rosemary is Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. www.rosemarycandelario.net
About The University of Texas at Austin Biodiversity Center Entomology Collections
The UT Insect Collection houses over 2 million research specimens from around the world with a concentration from Texas. These holdings are used to discover and describe species and to document their shifting distributions from land use and climate change. Particular strengths include butterflies, wasps, ants, beetles, and cave invertebrates.
About Dr. Alex Wild
Dr. Alex Wild is Curator of Entomology at The University of Texas at Austin and has been a world-renowned macro-photographer since the early 2000s. He holds a Ph.D. in Entomology from The University of California/Davis and conducts research on the evolution and classification of ants. Alex is a founding instructor of the Bug Shot workshop series, and his photographs appear in numerous natural history museums, magazines, books, television programs, video games, and other media.
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