Saturday, April 18, 2026
and again on
Monday, April 20, 2026
7pm (Doors at 6:30pm)
222 Bowery, NYC
$15, link in bio
Limited capacity
“I find myself now in a desperate state of mind about what people value in art today, where certain rules and conventions, and ways of thinking contradict the way art actually feels and what it means to be human. More so, I find that art making, solitary as the artist may be, is exacerbated by a degree of alienation that is detrimental to the artist’s survival. Art is both a solitary act and a social activity, as the artist and the viewer make attempts at building new structures of understanding.” — Brook Hsu
While meaning in art is shared, its making can get pretty lonely. Brook Hsu (
@broooooooooooooook ) is an artist, a painter. Living between New York and Wyoming, she spends the majority of her working life in conversation with material: wood, canvas, paint, ink, shellac. Born out of a desire to expand her practice into the social, she recently curated an exhibition at Kiang Malingue called “From Being Jealous of a Dog’s Vein” in which she asked the artists involved to allow her to treat their artworks as dancers.
During the final hours of that exhibition, Brook met Eiko Otake (
@eiko_otake ) after inviting her in for a walkthrough. While Eiko has lived and worked in New York City for fifty years, she continues to find herself a stranger in new places. With her ongoing project “A Body in Places,” Eiko has performed in—and in relation to—81 sites thus far. At Brook’s invitation, she has spent extensive time in 222 Bowery creating a place-based score that she calls “A Stranger in the Bunker,” which brings the smell of her formative years in late 1960s Tokyo into dialogue with the literary lineage of the space.
Eiko performs once on Saturday, takes Sunday to regret what she did, and performs for a second time on Monday.
Please note that spots are limited and audience members are asked to stand throughout the performance. Seating is available by request.
Images: Eiko Otake rehearsing in 222 Bowery by Nina Glover; Brook Hsu in her studio by Ian Lewandowski
