Catherine Wilenchek-Iwakawa has resided in NYC for the past 10 years, drawing inspiration from the urban landscape. After working as a fashion stylist in the South, she relocated to New York to study both Fashion design and fine art at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Honing her skills under the watchful eye of such names as Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren she was eventually driven to design her own line Atelier Cloth in the form of wearable art. In 1999 she began a life long collaboration with contemporary artist Naoki Iwakawa experimenting with cloth, paint and the elements creating often … Continued

Moeno Wakamatsu is a dance/theater artist coming from a background of being a pianist and an architect. She has also been teaching the Feldenkrais Method for 10 years. Her work exists outside of the art of ideas and concepts and aims to direct communication in intensified time and space. She has performed solo works in the US, Canada, and Europe. She has worked with Tetsuro Fukuhara, Mana Hashimoto, Kiyoko Kashiwagi, Joan Laage, Pierre Mansire, Kristin Narcowich, Bo Akiko Nishijima, Atsushi Takenouchi, Nancy Zendora and others.

Multi Media Performance Artist, Composer. In Japanese “zémi” is a name for the shrill loud insect, known in English as a cicada. A special bread of the cicada, known as the periodical cicada, has adapted a unique 17-year lifecycle. These insects present themselves on the surface of the earth for only a month; to mate, sing and die. There is a multitude of ancient stories from every continent about the cicada and their roll in the resurrection of passing souls. In moving I explore their contrast between patience and exhilaration; in hearing I listen for their composition like a frame … Continued