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About: Please tell us about your self. Some of our programs have benefits for art workers - please tell us if you are an artist and mention the most recent work/venue/space/residency where you have worked/developed your practice.: Sea Heike is a German-born, American visual and performing artist currently residing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her breadth of work encompasses sculpture, painting, audio/video installation, critical theory, and butoh-based performances. The works are connected by her interest in the phenomenology of the body, its capacity to contain memory and its existence in time/space.

While doing my undergraduate studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA, I was pointed in the direction of butoh by my media arts professors. After seeing Minako Seki perform “In Between” in 2004, I knew this was where my work was headed. I have studied with Shinichi Iova-Koga and Sherwood Chen (inkBoat), Minako Seki, Yuko Kaseki, and most recently Katsura Kan. I have performed and exhibited art work in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Berlin, Chiang Mai, and Kuala Lumpur.
Performance title: i love u (like water)
Thirst is desire. The need to drink. Cellular osmosis.
An involuntary process.
Obsession. Survival. Necessity.
A drop of water falling, alone, and merging with the whole.
Love letters to the ocean.

Background:: butoh dancer, video artist, performance artist, curator, artist