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"Theresa, I Miss You" is a durational installation/performance piece, in which Mia Kang will roam the spaces of New Orleans Poetry Festival "as" Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, the Korean Amerian conceptual artist and writer best known for her book Dictée. This movement-based performance is part of an evolving body of work, initiated in 2015, that thinks alongside and after Cha, whose
ouevre spans concrete poetry, film and video, performance, and visual art. As a series, "Theresa, I Miss You" moves between embodied practice, objects, and text within specific institutional and architectural contexts. Stairwells, plazas, classrooms, galleries,
hallways––these become sites of study and gates for alternate states within and around the artist. In New Orleans, where Kang's personal history brings a weight of grief and memory to bear, this performance offers a small presence for Cha, a haunting that is alive and a question about love. Kang will be present and working in multiple spaces throughout the days of the festival. Find this
piece where it finds you.
