The GYOPO Diasporic Refractions: Pre-Concert Performances offers an immersive experience where honoring historical resilience manifests new possibilities for collective agency and dissent. Diasporic Korean artists and performers Ari Osterweis, Sharon Chohi Kim, Hwa Records, and Young Sun Han ignite resistance from the spaces between memory and manifestation, navigating the nuanced terrains of cultural memory, generational healing, and community building. Through movement, sound, and bodily presence, diasporic identity is performed as a site of struggle and liberation—a living archive that refracts through embodied practice. This afternoon of performance invites audiences to witness how the active transformation of cultural memory through artistic interventions results in a return to deeply ancient ritual, one that demands collective imagining and building of liberatory futures. This afternoon of performance is part of GYOPO Diasporic Refractions, which explores Korean diasporic experience through various interdisciplinary arts.

LA Phil Insight is generously supported by Linda and David Shaheen.