Fire Over Heaven ends the season on a high note with yuniya edi kwon and gushes!

yuniya edi kwon is a violinist, vocalist, and interdisciplinary performance maker based in Lenapehoking, or New York City. Her practice connects composition, improvisation, movement, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. As a composer-performer and improviser, she is inspired by Korean folk timbres & inflections, textures & movement from natural environments, and American experimentalism as shaped by the AACM. Her work as a choreographer and movement artist embodies an expressive release and reclamation of colonialism’s spiritual imprints, connecting to both Japanese Butoh and a lineage of queer trans practitioners of Korean shamanic ritual. In addition to an evolving, interdisciplinary solo practice, yuniya collaborates with artists of diverse disciplines, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Senga Nengudi, Du Yun, Holland Andrews, Tomeka Reid, and Degenerate Art Ensemble. She is a Creative Capital Awardee, Arts Fellow at Princeton University, Civitella Ranieri Fellow, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Awardee in Music/Sound, and United States Artists Ford Fellow.
https://edikwon.net

gushes is ceremonial art-prog by intermedia performance artist Jennae Santos. Santos was born and raised in the California Bay Area, they live in Brooklyn, and they trace their bloodlines across the Philippines archipelago. These varied coastlines– urban and queer, powerful and dramatic, vibrant and reverent– compose the drama from which their practice spills forth. Their work casts tactile mythos through loops, lovesong, and ceremony. Over countless modes of performance and instrumentation, gushes’ music converges the theatrics of 1970s prog, the untethered spirit of dance-punk, the embodied abstraction of experimental percussion, and Filipino kulintang with Afro-Latin rhythms. Live performances are imbued with Santos’ background in downtown theatre, movement cycles, Kali FMA, plant medicine, and food justice. They’ve produced performances and artworks for community farm and food sovereignty projects including Choy Commons, Star Route Farm, Red Hook Farms, Edgemere Farm, and Liyang Network. Santos’ video, social practice, and music performance work has received commissions and support from the Bagri Foundation, Audiofemme, JACK Arts, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Their forthcoming debut LP, Delicious Collision, made of prog odyssey, decolonization protest anthems, and psychedelic lovesong, comes out October 2025 on Switch Hit Records.
https://gushesmusic.com