micO tells about lucO

My creative journey is shaped by my understanding of light as a form of existence, resilience and expression, as I transform from a lighting designer for dance, theater and performance with a decade of experience to an artist working with light in installation form, through solo work and collaborations with others. My trajectory is defined by my education in industrial design, my professional experience as a design journalist, my deep love and interest in movement and space, my ongoing immigrant experience and questioning of home as a moving target, my fear of darkness, my curiosity for the unknown, and my devotional love for and unconditional belonging to light. After 10 years of collaborative work, in this moment my calling is to initiate my own work with light and material in the form of installations in public space and light journals (photography and short film). My practice with light and dark is a reflection of my inner and outer conversations and negotiations regarding self and the world. This practice is at times deeply ritualistic and contemplative, focusing on day and night, documenting our authentic and pure connection to self, light, dark and universe through installation, photography and film. At other times, it is a pro-active practice in conversation with light to make space, architecture, objects, statements and talk about justice/injustice, gender inequality, poverty and gentrification, racial and ethnical violence, forced relocation and assimilation with the active intention of bringing light to the darkness of humanity and the world.

Tuco

who is tucO?

Tuçe Yasak has been following light in NYC since 2008, creating over 100 site-specific light installations for performance in the US and abroad. Yasak received the 2018 BESSIE (...Memoirs of a... Unicorn by Marjani Forte-Saunders at Collapsable Hole and NYLA) and 2019 BESSIE (Oba Qween Baba King Baba by Ni'Ja Whitson at Danspace) for Outstanding Visual Design with her lighting design.She has ongoing collaborations with Raja Feather Kelly / the Feath3r, Ana Maria Alvarez / Contra Tiempo, Ni’Ja Whitson, Nia Witherspoon, Justin Hicks. Among her recent collaborations Hysteria by Raja Feather Kelly at New york Live Arts, The Bridge Called My Ass by Miguel Gutierrez (The Chocolate Factory/NY, Montpellier Dance Festival/France, The Walker Center/Minneapolis, PICA/Portland) Skinfolk: An American Show written by Jillian Walker/ directed by Mei Ann Teo (The Bushwick Starr, NYC), We're Gonna Die written by Young Jean Lee, directed by Raja Feather Kelly (2nd Stage Theater/NYC) -all three have recently been reviewed on New York Times-, M---ER by Autumn Knight (On The Boards), JoyUS JustUS by Contra Tiempo (national tour), Patch the Sky with 5 Color Stonesby Daria Fain at the Chocolate Factory among many others. Light, movement and architecture intertwine in Yasak's work to support space-making and story-telling.

contact

mobile: +1 609 357 7764
tuceyasak@gmail.com

portraits by Maria Baranova-Suzuki