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If the Sky Could Dream: Dragonatomy

January 25, 2025, 2 - 4 PM
Heritage Museum of Asian Art, 3500 S. Morgan St. 3rd Floor

We search for dragons in art, in movement, in music, and in ourselves. Reflect upon the Year of the Dragon in this exploratory performance by Irene Hsiao in collaboration with Paige Brown, Hunter Diamond, Menghua Guan, Penny Li, Amanda Maraist, Scott Rubin, Darling “Shear” Squire, and Peter Wong at the Heritage Museum of Asian Art.

If the Sky Could Dream combines drawing, painting, dance, found materials and found spaces at the museum to reveal and celebrate the dragons among us—structural, ancestral, architectural, internal, and environmental. Because the dragon is a water deity in Chinese culture, this work also features projections of the waters of Chicago: Lake Michigan, the Chicago River, and the lakes, ponds, and lagoons of Chicago Parks.

If The Sky Could Dream: Dragonatomy is generously funded by the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation as part of the Dragon Within: Loong and Global Symbols event series. If the Sky Could Dream is supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Irene Hsiao is the 2024 Resident Artist at Heritage Museum of Asian Art.

Dragonatomy image collaged from photos by Kristie Kahns and Jasmine Carter

About the Artists

HERITAGE MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART
 

3500 S Morgan St, 3F

Chicago, IL, 60609

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(312) 842-8884

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