Music & Film
by āññā duo
Mail Art
by Tori Tinsley
about the art
This month’s art considers the balance between clinging and letting go, with a film by āññā (Anqi Liu and Han Zhang) and visual art by Tori Tinsley. Both pieces feature playful, fleshy creatures exploring a marsh, sharing a quiet, almost uncanny resonance — a kinship between artists who have never met, tracing journeys of play, dreaming, and caregiving into meaningful structures.
āññā is the collaborative duo of long-time partners whose practice is shaped by fluid improvisation and ritualistic processes grounded in their closeness and humor. Their film woowaaaditeeeer asks: “how do you dissolve in the environment? You go in and devote every atom of you.” Performed in a shady stream, the duo plays with sounds triggered by DIY touch and light sensors, leaves, water, movement, and inflatable figures that mirror their own beige bodysuits — creating a fluid improvisatory impulse driven by feelings and intuition.
Tori Tinsley’s visual art is inspired by bonds with her children and her mother, who suffered from dementia. Her cartoonish, nude figures inhabit vibrant, textured environments, expressing the emotional complexity and vulnerability of caregiving — longing, disbelief, discomfort, and hope, steeped in tenderness, dark humor, and the persistent desire to love and be loved.