Lesley Mok

Lesley Mok Is A Percussionist And Interdisciplinary Artist Who Works In Sound Installation Film And Theater. Interested In The Ways Social Conditions Shape Our Beings Lesley’s Work Focuses On Overacting Humanness To Explore Ideas About Alienness And Privilege. Their Work Draws From Queer And Feminist Art Practices Chinese Philosophy Caribbean Folkloric Musical Traditions Futurist Perspectives And Ancestral Knowledge. Their Ongoing Explorations With Composition And Improvisation Are Most Notably Documented In Their Ten-Piece Improvising Chamber Ensemble The Living Collection American Dreams Records . Other Recent Works Include Stilled Leaf-Chatter 2022 Bird In Its Chest 2022 Pooling Light 2021 But I Forced To Mind My Vision Of A Sky 2020 And She Smashed The Enclosure 2020 . In Addition To Their Own Work Lesley Can Be Heard In Myra Melford’s Fire And Water David Leon’s Bird’s Eye Anna Webber’s Shimmer Wince The Percussion Co-Operative The Forest And Co-Led Projects Tombstar And Vehicle / Passenger. Lesley's Work Has Been Recognized By The ASCAP Foundation Roulette Intermedium And The Asian American Arts Alliance And Has Been Performed By International Contemporary Ensemble Metropolis Ensemble And JACK Quartet. They Have Collaborated With Tomeka Reid Fay Victor William Parker Cory Smythe Jen Shyu Myra Melford Isabel Crespo Pardo Edi Kwon Zekkereya El-Margharbel David Leon Doyeon Kim Adam O’Farrill And Others. read less