🪟 We’re excited to announce “似曾相识 | Dance, in Theater with Window,” an installation in /room/ by Berkeley-based artist Yiming Clara (@cla___li ). The exhibition opens on Saturday, May 2 with artist remarks at 4:30pm and an opening reception from 5 to 8pm.
Clara uses familiar forms to explore the exhibition space as a site of social choreography, inviting us to renegotiate our relations to the world and to others.
“似曾相识 | Dance, in Theater with Window” was selected from our 2025 open call by jurors Nicolás Colón (@bby_gap ) and Fernanda Partida Ochoa (@unapajarera ) and is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The installation includes sound designed by Claire Hu (@gardenintheoctopus )and will be accompanied by two performances, the second of which will feature Fumi Okiji. Stay tuned for more details.
Learn more about the exhibition through the link in our bio!
📷️ 1: Poster design by Yiming Clara and Tuğçe Evirgen Özmen (@tugceevirgen.zmen ). 2: Yiming Clara, The Theater Seats, 2026, vintage theater seats, joint compound, paint, 32 1/2 x 37 1/2 x 23 in.
I’m very excited to invite you to the third edition of 202019: Occasions, “Realty Principle”, a solo exhibition by Eliot D’Silva.
Eliot D’Silva’s “Realty Principle” (not Reality Principle) transforms the apartment gallery into a staged, open house. Visitors pass through domestic scenes: a cologne-scented living room, a bathroom with toothbrushes and a dripping sink, a strobing bedroom with a charger but no phone, and a kitchen of unused, plastic-wrapped utensils. A 4-channel sound work inhabits each space with acousmatic voices (Mother, Father, Daughter, Son). If “Sight Unseen” has come to refer to the execution of a real estate transaction in which property exchanges title prior to physical inspection, here, physical inspection itself becomes the unseen site: each member of the family strains toward an exterior beyond the apartment, staged as a 6’ x 1’ strip of astroturf on a balcony. Run time: 2 hours.
Eliot D’Silva is a writer, researcher and teacher living in Berkeley, CA.
#202019Occasions is an apartment exhibition series made by Yiming Clara. This show is part of Speakers Never Learn, a salon on the sonic in collaboration with Hyungtae Kim.
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Please join us at the opening reception
next Thursday, April 16th from 7–9pm
at 2020 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA
The exhibition runs from April 16th to 26th, by appointment
Learn more at the link in my bio.
I decided all the work will have no finish point, only certain intensities of surfacing, like that brief occurrence in the last 202019 occasion. These are images of something slowly happening into a long scroll of moving images with a long indecipherable talking in the back or something a like, that I am returning to slowly. Though I found these images in a flash scrolling through my photo album looking for something else.
With/over/under/in-between Way and Felisa’s show, Even the Wind is Cautious, at Climate Control SF.
A Convenient Grammatical Fiction, 2025
In collaboration with Emmanuel Roch
Inkjet print on paper, glass picture frame
10cm x 15cm each
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Installed during 202019: Occasions, The Chair at the
height level of exhibition tombstones, the series explicated nothing about the show but a philosophical reading of Chairs. Made in collaboration with Emmanuel Roch, we drew extractions from his History of Philosophy Thesis (Lyon III university and École normale supérieure de Lyon, supervised by Tristan Garcia), tinkering with the tenets of language and how it formulates the world through didactics, translations, and perceptions.
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I am verrry excited to invite you to the second edition of 202019: Occasions, “Speakers Never Learn”, a salon on the sonic I made in collaboration with Hyungtae Kim. On January 23rd, we will open with the first occasion, Still Coming Into The World: A Sunrise Gathering, a research-based listening event.
Centered around a sample of sound works dedicated to or heard by artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha herself while in Berkeley, California, this gathering is conceived by Cha Scholar, Ju Ly Ban; Independent Writer, Isabelle Utzinger-Son; and artist, Cici Wu. @julysses000@isabelle_u__s__@happpiness.2021
Still Coming Into World is an opening ceremony that stakes a single sound: “friendship.” We hope you join us to celebrate the persistence of that sound in: the works of Reese Williams; Berkeley, CA; 2026; Sunrise – 11:00 A.M.; between friends; through speakers.
2020 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA
contact: [email protected]
with love,
Yiming Clara + Hyungtae Kim
Some close-ups of the first show.
202019 Occasions, The Chair
2025.12.1–2025.1.11
#202019Occasions is an apartment exhibition series made by Yiming Clara.
202019: The Chair will be up for one more week, until December 14th. Visits are by appointment ❣️
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Pictured: from left to right
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Hyungtae Kim
A Chair 10 Events for Apollo (excerpts from Out of the Blue)
2023
Emmanuel Roch
A convenient grammatical fiction
2025
Yiming Clara Li
All I Wanted to be Was
2025
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Shannon Kim
Word as Square—In a Manner of Speaking
2025
Samuel Wildman
A Small Domestic Crisis: Unplanned Fountain
2021
Alejandra Perez Rotondo
Prière d’insérer/ général brouillon
2025
3)
Emmanuel Roch
A convenient grammatical fiction
2025
4)
Hyungtae Kim
A Chair 10 Events for Apollo (excerpts from Out of the Blue)
2023
Nicolas Colón
Still Life, San Francisco
2017
I am very excited to present the first edition of 202019: Occasions, a new exhibition series beginning with the subject of “The Chair”.
On this occasion I attempt to bring together some forceful encounters within the gravitational field of my locality, as they are figurated through questions and images, fragments of manuscripts and long-awaited sculptures, and, of course, poetry. These are the things that resurface infinitely in my mind as residue of a much longer conversation, affinity, and imagination that have opened to a widening joy. This, as Alejandra says, is our attempt at a coherence that is against the world.
Growing out of a longing to gather what matters most, this unfolds as a natural evolution from a year of tea gatherings—only now borrowing a new ritual.
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Please join me on Monday, December 1st, for the opening reception of “The Chair”.
Featuring works by:
Nicolás Colón
Yiming Clara Li
Hyungtae Kim
Shannon Kim
Emmanuel Roch
Alejandra Perez Rotondo
Samuel Wildman
#202019occasions
@bby_gap@samuel_the_serious@shnnonkim@nasiljah
