we’re all mad here (2024)

part of * Alice & Alice: IN FREE FALL * exhibition programing

We’re all mad here, is a live 35 minute self scripted monologue, spiral storytelling experience with moments of vocal, flute, noise, and movement, an experimental reenactment of Yoo as Alice in Alice in Wonderland while leading the audience down into the wonderland depths of Alice Hyun, the first Korean American born in Hawaii in 1903. The performance uses two types of audience viewership - one through the eye as the audience watch Yoo perform in real time in the gallery space; another form of viewership is offered through the thermal technology livestream on Twitch where audience members hold their phones to watch /to cradle Yoo’s body interacting through the thermal imaging from an aerial perspective.

Using various forms of of camouflage (code switching, red ribbon fabric, blue light, blue room, blue body paint, green flashlight, thermal technology subversion through heating and cooling of the body) to showcase the blurry space in diaspora politics toeing the line between nationalist inclinations and romantic nostalgia, this performance interweaves Alice Hyun, Alice in Wonderland, and the artist’s own history with ties to the US military, to complicate what does it mean to be camouflaged, seen, hunted, haunted, or hidden?  

This is an in part horror story, in part noise show, in part manifesto act.

Who gets to be Alice?

Who runs wonderland?

What happens when fiction is more real than reality?

**This performance contains nudity, crass language, strobing lights, and images from surveillance cameras. This is not a performance for children.

Performance: Bunker Projects presents We’re All Mad Here by Caroline Yoo on Thursday 2/8/24; 2/15/24, 7-8PM (length of the performance is 35-40 minutes) 

trailer to come soon :))