Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks

Yoshiko Chuma, The School of Hard Knocks | River-to-River Festival | Photo: Ruby Washington/NYTimes
Photo: Ruby Washington/NYTimes

YOSHIKO CHUMA has been building unique structures in the liminal area between her native Japanese culture and her adopted American one with the SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS (SOHK) for more than three decades. Using trained and pedestrian movers, virtuoso instrumentalists (whose playing she often conducts), film, video, and sculptural forms by collaborating artists, she develops unusual time-based art works that blend the live and the recorded, the flat and the three-dimensional, people and things.

GOH has been managing productions by The School of Hard Knocks since 1993. Learn more about GOH’s history with Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks here

website: yoshikochuma.org

back to GOH Artists page