Kalup Linzy: Performance and New Episode of ‘One Life to Heal’
— Hong Kong

On behalf Yana and Stephen Peel, we commissioned a new performance from Brooklyn-based artist Kalup Linzy, set on the Jumbo Kingdom floating restaurant in Hong Kong. In tandem, we also worked with Nowness to support a new episode of Linzy’s tragi-comedic soap opera Conversations wit de Churen X: One Life to Heal, starring Michael Stipe and Leo Fitzpatrick. Riffing on daytime television, and serving up plenty of surrealist en pointe critique of pop culture, the series sees Linzy play multiple characters himself, from overbearing mama to wayward son, cousins and friends, all caught in multiple dramas.

The Hong Kong episode features the disappearance of camp chanteuse named Taiwan from a cruise ship, leaving us with her body slumped on the shore.  Linzy reincarnated his tragic diva, suddenly found, for the performance, which took place during Art Basel Hong Kong with over 500 people in attendance, backdropped by the old Jumbo Kingdom floating restaurant decorated in the style of 1930s Shanghai.