AIR Showing April 13th, 2025 Queens NY
Photos: Brian Rogers
Apples, bitter appliances, wooden shoes wander and convene in a solo study, Hoist, created and improvised by Jesi Cook. The body is electric, lonely, then sagging. The physicality of sound making. Time unrolls like a wet carpet turned tumbleweed. An undetermined collection of scores meddle and fidget, playing the architecture of the Chocolate Factory Theater.
La Mama Moves Festival, NYC . May 1-3, 2025
Choreographed and Performed: Jesi Cook with collaborators Amelia Heintzelman, Ayano Elson, Mina Nishimura
Photos by Steven Pisano
Wedge is a new performance work by Jesi Cook. A tangle of improvisation scores examine high frequency interruptions. A fly in your soup. A looping circuit, shorted. Did a rat chew the wires? Holes begin to pockmark your newspaper, the dances. A movement phrase is wedged in an oblong theater, the front lobby faucet is leaking. You can’t scratch your itch.
2024 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s River to River Festival
Choreography, Sound Scores, Installation, Costume: Jesi Cook
Performers: Ayano Elson, Amelia Heintzelman, Mina Nishimura.
Sound Technician: Jeff Aaron Bryant. Lighting: Daniele Sarti
Photos: Cherylyn Tsushima. Trailer: Sophia Peer
Whole body in my ear was a performance in which sound and body emerged as one fluid and dynamic textural form. The work saw performers splice and patch text, movement, and sound scores to create new languages and porous realities. This endurance-based auditory fantasy pushed toward dissonance, using it as a means to explore and amplify otherness. The scores built, heightened, and eroded an ouroboric circuit—with patterns repeating, leaking, and breaking apart throughout a shifting sculptural landscape.
Seed Scores
Roulette Intermedium
Improvisations for Livestream Nov 19-21, 2020
Images: Daniele Sarti
Improvisation with organist Steven Long, 2023
Stone Circle Theater. Queens, NY.
Photo: Jon Tehel
Interiors
Fresh Tracks 2022 AIR Showing
Photo: Maria Baranova, courtesy of New York Live Arts
Endling, 2022
Movement Research AIR showing
Judson Memorial Church, NYC
Photos : Whitney Browne Video: Alex Romania
Igoo Chamna/ Forgot my Keys 2018
LmAK Gallery NY, NY
Photo/ Videos: Jen Rodewald Curation: David Smith
Dogflats, 2018
Roulette Intermedium
Performers: Jesi Cook, Katie Dean, Ayano Elson
Lighting: LD De Armon
Video/Photos: Wolf Daniels
Tundra Baby Body , 2018
MoMA PS1 Dome
In collaboration with Laurel Atwell
Photo: Whitney Browne, Video: Daniele Sarti
Video: Carlton Bright
Misuk, 2018
AUNTS x BEACH SESSIONS
Rockaway Beach
Photo: Lilliana Dirks-Goodman
A durational dsico kimchi prep, as a gut ritual for Misuk Choi.
Condensing, 2019
MANA Contemporary Open House
photo courtesy: MANA Contemporary
No Private Life, 2018
PAM Residencies, Los Angeles
In collaboration with Laurel Atwell, Curation: Tim Reid
Video: Justin Streichman
Delicate Machines, 2018
Central Park Gallery, Los Angeles 2018.
Phootos and curation: Jared Dryer. In collaboration with Laurel Atwell.
Gravel Motor, 2017
Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church
Performers: Kaie Dean and Ayano Elson
Photo 1,3: Ryutaro Mishima
Work-In-Progress for
Gravel Motor
Rehearsal for Gravel motor
Memory Score, 2014
Alaina Stamatis + Elizabeth Abu-Allayah
Roulette Intermedium
Photo: Soonja Choi
Bells, 2010
AUNTS on a Boat
Sound: Benny Boeldt
Perfromers: Mariko Kurihara, Nana Tsatsuda, Kristina Donello and Caitlyn Kronk.
Video: Jim Byrne