About J&S
J&S (Jeremy Hahn & SkyE) are interdisciplinary artists who create durational installations, visual art, and participatory movement-based embodied experiences. As process-driven creators, their methodology is rooted in contemplative and ritual practice, inspiring the creation of work that promotes connection, mindfulness, and a sense of ease.
artist | educator | qualitative researcher
storyteller | artist | music maker
Where is the Line?
After the rain; the birds allow me to hear their song; the butterfly allows me to dry them with my breath
Where is the Line between this and that?
I feel the flow, and yet I wonder do I write this down or allow the flow to flow
Where is the Line?
Connection to everything; this space with no words and poetry is
Where is the line
Voice to text, text to voice, maybe you pick up what I say maybe you hear maybe you listen maybe we are maybe we aren't the point is there is no point the point is we are point unless we forget and we are lost; elsewhere
Where is the line
The line where I allow the words to flow, but have to stop them -- in order to make them words
when to wait in prose and when to share
Where is the line
When is it inspiration, when has it passed its expiration; when are we and where are we when we are trying to encompass the flow that is only the flow when it cannot be encompassed
where is the line
The line between me and you
the line between us and them
the line between wholeness and individuality
where is the line
Where is the line where we stop speaking and truth is
When does rhythm become music
When do we wake up
Where is the line when we end
What is the line between life and stagnation
What is the line between birth and death death and birth
Where is the line between me and you
Where is the line between the projections of my mind and the reflections of yours
Where is the line between my dream our dream and the dream
On what line do we end
and love; is.
Love is
Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is allowed
Voice to text saying it better than I ever could love is love is love is allowed
Love is
Love is
Love is love
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-SkyE
SkyE
Raised by the neighborhood bluejays in a town you’ve never heard of, SkyE is a transdisciplinary queer artist, autodidact, and self-made person. Inspired by gospel, birdsong, and improvisation as bridges connecting us to flow and spirit, sky set their sights selectively on theater, opera, painting, circus, poetry, and film utilizing queer methodologies, eventually moving to the great city of Los Angeles which has been their creative home for two decades.
On stage since they could walk, transformative performances shaped sky's view of the possibility of connection through art. The New Yorker said their leading role was 'performed virtuosically' in Hopscotch, a Mobile Opera. LA weekly wrote of their flying through Hollywood Fringe: 'showstopping.'
A few favorite moments:
The Hammer Museum, The Industry LA, Cleveland Orchestra (NY Times)
Their experimental short films have been screened and honored at film festivals all over the world.
Their visual work shines a queer light on our transient overlooked simple natural places and quotidian life. Rebirth, received a grant from LADCA.
They approach the composing of a poem from the musicality of the syllables and the vibrational emotions elicited, incorporating spoken word in many other disciplines.
Multi-hour art happenings sky directs have inspired all across the globe and moved them to current experiments layering past, present, and future artistic realities through technology and audience responsive/immersive experiences that queer our habituated binaries and allow for uncovering our unique creative tools of expression.
The adaptation required for climate change permeates the immediacy of their themes, and queer visibility inspires their prolific creations.
queer's fluid demands
the queer undercurrents fluid estuaries
undermine the rigid pillars of normativity.
a flash of light
in spectrum vibrancy
shimmer an oration of change to come.
unbound from binaries
and linear constraints
an in-between temporality
transports beyond predetermined fates,
of contextualization
limited thinking
and into realms of fantastic awakening.
doors are open, and a mission unfolds
in emergent gesturing,
shift a hip
pop that back
snap and drop down to the floor.
slide next to me
a caress still lingering
my goodbye’s purpose, neverending
Jeremy Hahn
Jeremy Hahn (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, dance/performance educator, and qualitative researcher currently based at the Brewery Artist Lofts in Los Angeles. His process-based projects are emergent pedagogical experiments rooted in ritual design, contemplative practice, and queer performance research. Artistically, they create solo durational site-responsive performance installations, poems, and creative workshops called “Cultivating the Expressive Body” with J&S Arts. These collaborative choreographies are embodied celebrations of queer joy.
Their current research investigates the configurations and practices of 'queer contemplative pedagogy' as a fluid approach to performance, education, and activism. By highlighting LGBTQ2IA+ visibility and resilience, this research demonstrates the possibilities of how queer contemplative pedagogy can disrupt hegemonic structures, generate alternative narratives, and foster thriving within diverse communities.
As a performer, they worked notably with Jane Brucker, Efflorescence, Lucent Dossier Experience, Pennington Dance Group, and Yuval Sharon. They appeared at LACMA, The Hammer Museum, The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, LAMAG, Baik Gallery, The Skirball Cultural Center, The Annenberg Community Beach House, Lightning in a Bottle, EDC, The Edison, The Echo + Echo Plex, Vibiana, Grand Park, and Severance Hall.
He holds an MFA in Dance from California State University, Long Beach, is a Ph.D. candidate in Dance at Texas Woman's University, and is a full-time lecturer in The Department of Theatre and New Dance at Cal Poly Pomona.
queer's fluid demands
the queer undercurrents fluid estuaries
undermine the rigid pillars of normativity.
a flash of light
in spectrum vibrancy
shimmer an oration of change to come.
unbound from binaries
and linear constraints
an in-between temporality
transports beyond predetermined fates,
of contextualization
limited thinking
and into realms of fantastic awakening.
doors are open, and a mission unfolds
in emergent gesturing,
shift a hip
pop that back
snap and drop down to the floor.
slide next to me
a caress still lingering
my goodbye’s purpose, neverending
