nami rose
multimedia productions (as artist)
Speakeasy Podcast (coming 2024) | Los Angeles, CA
is an experimental podcast produced by Nami in collaboration with producer/filmmaker Janice Duncan. Episodes feature conversations and interviews with the provacateur and with attendees of the Black Bar Social, delving into the provocative questions on the future of culture posed during the evenings. Themes include: the future of labor and technology in relation to historically marginalized communities, Afrofuturist visions for the future of society, the relationship between ancestors and their progeny, AI and social logics of hospitality, and the role of ancestral intelligence and diasporic worldmaking in emerging technologies. The podcast extends the impact of the program beyond the physical space of the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion and fosters broader dialogue about the future of cultural and technological innovation. Nami leads the production of the podcast, designing and executing interviews, authoring the script, composing the soundtrack (and other ambient sound design capturing the live essence of the event), and spearheading the audio editing of the 60-minute episodes.Flood of Memory (2024) | Manzanar, CA
is a documentary by Maya Castronovo shedding light on children’s experiences of incarceration during the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Nami composed and recorded the soundtrack for the documentary. Listen to “uguisu song” (nightingale song) and “kazoku shashin” (family photo) here.The film will be screening in Spring 2024 at Yale University, Wisconsin Film Festival, and NFFTY in Seattle. It can now be streamed on Director’s Library.
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they never told us these things (2023-) | New York, Osaka, Seoul
is an immersive, multimedia sound installation that was first held in March to April 2023 as Nami’s Artist-in-Residency showcase at the Movement Lab in NYC. Alternative iterations of the project were held in Osaka, Japan (see below) in July 2023 and Seoul, Korea in December 2023 to January 2024.灯台下暗し (July 2023) | Osaka, Japan
is a multimodal sound installation that was held in Osaka, Japan in July 2023 as a reiteration of they never told us these things. This iteration centered Japanese voices and experiences of nuclearization.등잔 밑이 어둡다 (December 2023-January 2024) | Seoul, South Korea
was screened at CICA Museum in Seoul, South Korea in Contemporary Landscapes, an international exhibition running from December 13, 2023 to January 17, 2024.they never told us these things: screendance (2023) | New York, NY
is a short film filmed as a companion to the aforementioned installation of the same name. A collaboration between Nami (music, sound art, projections), Christine Lin (director, dancer), and Tobi Lee (main dancer).azine (2022-) | New York, NY
is an Asian/American Art Collective centering queer and women-identifying artists in New York. As co-founder and head of curriculum, Nami programs and executes biweekly arts workshops that facilitate conversations about identity and community care. The collective also organized teach-ins in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race (CSER) at Columbia University, to advocate for the departmentalization of the center and hiring of more tenured-track professors of color, and the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies (CCIS) at Barnard College, for greater investment in Asian American Studies. The co-founders of azine published a cumulative zine resulting from these workshops in May, 2023.wild wild east (2022-2023) | New York, NY
is a hybrid talk/music radio show hosted by Nami and her friend, Christine. They co-authored weekly episodes on the transnational circulations of music emerging from East Asia.