Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草
Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草


CAO creates art to empower relational organizing and (re)build a sustainable community. 
The (Ruins of) Ciba Shrine
The Ciba Punch
Good Mourning
Collective Poetry
Spiritual Figures
Grammar Book of Care
Kneading Breaths
Textual Memory
Be-Twined
Strings of Touch
Open Studio
Dumplings for Palestine
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Spiritual Figures


New York, NY, 2022/8
Newark, NJ, 2022/11
Irvine, CA, 2023/5
Brooklyn, NY, 2024/9
Queens, NY, 2024/9
Spiritual Figures, a sonic and somatic performance in collaboration with Julia Santoli embody queer and feminist ancestors, family members, protestors, and an anticipatory futurity of survival. Their non-audible breaths and hymns carry alternative/rejected knowledge of indecipherable rage/love, which guides the Ciba Punchers. Weaving oral traditions and memory, they transcend spatial/temporal boundaries and demand embodied practices of intimate listening and languaging. 

As of Oct 2024, we have hosted 6 Spiritual Figures performances in New York, New Jersey, and California.