Between the Lines: Generations of Books
CultureHub LA
The Reef / Maker City LA
1933 S Broadway, Suite 1268
Los Angeles, CA 90007
December 6, 2024
7:30pm PT
In-Person
Free / Donate
CultureHub Resident Artist Ina Chen creates a book-reading performance leveraging realtime and deepfake technology to explore a generational retrospective dialogue.
Between the Lines centers around three books, each representing a member of a family across three generations: a former nuclear facility worker, a romantic medical student, and a Chinese immigrant artist based in Los Angeles. For the Chinese, a historical divide compresses what would be 4 centuries of European upheaval into a mere 40 years, splitting a generation into disparate eras.
This event combines a live book-reading performance with a bespoke table platform holding authentic artifacts, objects, and documents from the respective eras, inviting the audience to engage directly with these materials. By traversing these intergenerational narratives, the piece captures the immense scale of change and the fractures it creates within a nation and a family. Amidst ideological rifts and silences at the dinner table, it is the quiet, enduring power of love that continues to unite the family, forming a delicate bridge across the divide.
This project was brought to life with the invaluable contributions of Arsenios Zachariadis, Amber Yuheng Zhu, QwentyZ, Santiago Amézquita, Zachary Serrano, and Calvin Sin, alongside the generous support of CultureHub LA, Stacy Dawson Stearns, and Camille Weins.
This project is supported within the CultureHub Residency program.