C. Spencer Yeh

C. Spencer Yeh is recognized for interdisciplinary activities as an artist, improviser, and composer, and for his music project Burning Star Core. Since 2020, Yeh has performed for The Kitchen and Experimental Intermedia in New York City;  The Renaissance Society in Chicago with Experimental Sound Studio; the Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project; Casa del Lago UNAM in Mexico City with Jacob Wick and Bonnie Jones; Jazz em Agosto in Lisbon with Nate Wooley's Seven Storey Mountain; Blank Forms with Raven Chacon and Che Chen; and both solo and with Luke Stewart and Leila Bordreuil’s Feedback Ensemble for Roulette. He presented new video works and performances for both ISSUE Project Room in New York City and the Bemis Center in Omaha, NE. Yeh also exhibited with Anthology Film Archives and Loong Mah in New York City, Bánh Mì Verlag online, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève’s 5th Floor, and participated in Nick Klein’s Bring the Flowers to the Theatre at Sara’s. In 2021, he organized a karaoke event for Creative Time and Rashid Johnson's Red Stage project, and started a key music duo with Kwami Winfield that has performed at many venues and events including ISSUE Project Room and Ende Tymes Festival. In 2019, Yeh received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award. In 2023, Yeh's work was part of exhibitions including Constellating Histories with Asia Film Archives in Singapore, Impossible Music at the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art in Pittsburgh, and the Taipei Biennial Small World at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, and SculptureCenter in New York City. In addition to bringing Impossible Music to Tufts University Art Galleries in 2025, he is concurrently staging an installation of his project World of Music. Yeh also presented an experimental anthology-style radio play Tales from Area 212 with Creative Time as part of their Sonic Commons program series.