No Rule is Our Rule (2022) Screening and Q&A with co-directors Eiko Otake and Wen Hui

Date: Thursday March 27, 2025
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: Harry Ransom Center
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. PLEASE RSVP BY CLICKING HERE. 

This is a story of friendship between two independent female artists and their body memories each willingly carry. In January 2020, New York based, interdisciplinary performing artist Eiko Otake arrived in Beijing to visit Wen Hui, a Chinese choreographer and filmmaker. Eight years apart, Eiko grew up in postwar Japan and Wen during the Cultural Revolution. They planned to visit each other for a month to converse and collaborate. The surge of COVID-19 abruptly cut off Eiko's visit and the pandemic has so far made Wen's visit to the USA impossible but not the collaboration. Looking back on the video diaries they shot without a script, Eiko and Wen continued their dialogue on Zoom, sharing past works that form a deeper understanding of their circumstantial differences and characteristic similarities. Chinese film director Yiru Chen, once Eiko’s student, joined the team as a co-editor.

Special thanks to our co-sponsors:

Center for Asian American Studies
Center for Women’s and Gender Studies
Institute of Historical Studies 
Oscar G. Brockett Center for History and Theatre Criticism and the Department of Theatre and Dance 
Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice & the Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Justice
The Sterling Clark Holloway Centennial Lectureship in Liberal Arts

Sponsored by: Co-sponsored by the Harry Ransom Center, UT Dept. of Theatre and Dance, and CEAS

University of Texas at Austin
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