Talent Show | I Think We’re Compatible, 2019 

Performance composed by Ashley Grier /Text written by Joeun Kim AATCHIM

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Composed and performed by Ashley Grier

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Ashley Grier (vocalist, composer, performer, sound artist) interpreted “Talent Show” and “I Think We’re Compatible” – poems by Joeun Kim AATCHIM from her book “eye jailed eye” – setting the text “Talent show” as a musical composition for solo soprano and by facilitating “I Think We’re Compatible” – a composition consisting of communal chord building for soprano and audience. Both pieces were performed by Grier as a part of the exhibition organized by AATCHIM, "Microscopic Eyes Detective Minds by Café Anxiety Drawing Club International," at the Vacation Gallery, New York.

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Many thanks to the audience who participated in, and my most sincere thanks to dearest Ashley. 

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"Talent Show (a birthday piece)

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Thinking back what my life is made of and it must be of marvelous talent shows.

Walking around taking souvenir photos with people who love the humble talents I show.

Each time I fell in love with men and women or the lovely ones in between of various degrees, t

hings alive, things unbreathing, and things of good sound and smell.

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Each time we meet I try hard not to show my nightly thinking; my pervert diligence on collecting data

of each side of your face, blinking eyelids and moving limbs while we conversing, try not to reveal

my secret work ethic of how unlazy I am to rebuild all of my loves animating in my dreams each night.
They look real.

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Each time my embarrassingly huge sum of love is tiresome. What a hopeless polygamy I am,

I thought to keep myself chained. Some of you only have seen me chained but this does not mean that I was not in love with you.
Or if not I will.

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My true talent to boast must be an acting skill since you must have not noticed that I was in love with you

in our very apathetic encounters each time, especially on hallways.
Or have you?

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It is my birthday and I say my usual thing again, sorry I don’t drink and it is to show
my love is real.

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all yours,
Joeun
(4.12.1989~ ?)"