Join award-winning interdisciplinary artist Alison S. M. Kobayashi for a discussion and presentation on her unique hybrid work, which mixes documentary and fiction through video, performance, installation, interaction and illustration.

Born in Mississauga, Ontario, Kobayashi has been nominated for Drama Desk and United Solo Special Awards and is the recipient of the 2006 TSV Artistic Vision Award. In 2017, her critically acclaimed New York City performance Say Something Bunny! was heralded as “the best new theater experience in town” by Vogue and was among Time Out’s top 10 productions of the year.

Kobayashi’s video work has been exhibited at museums and at performance and film festivals around the world, including the Bilbao International Film Festival, the Western Front in Vancouver, the Power Plant in Toronto, Pace Digital Gallery in New York and Les Subsistances in Lyon, France. She was a fellow at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and a guest artist at the 2008 Flaherty Film Seminar. Since 2012, Kobayashi has been producing special projects at UnionDocs, a Center for Documentary Art. There she has collaborated on expansive documentary projects such as Living Los Sures, which the New York Film Festival described as “one of the most comprehensive, incredible and in-depth interactive projects that we at the film society have ever seen.”