Here to Remember Live

A one-off event presenting new work by three commissioned artists Kai Chareunsy, Katherine Lee and Kyami Mitsui Russell.

Curated by multidisciplinary artist and composer Jasmin Kent Rodgman (Co-Artistic Director, Manchester Collective), the three artists will debut new music exploring their heritage and relationship to archives and memory.

The night will also feature discussions about the music and a special screening of the short film Midnight Rising by filmmaker and visual artist Aileen Ye, plus Izzi on DJ duty.

Kai Chareunsy presents a live piece weaving khaen, field recordings, and family testimony to resurrect his feeling of exploring Laos as someone from the diaspora, but also highlighting the histories of Laos refugees and giving voice to a silenced history
Katherine Lee presents an immersive performance that transforms Hong Kong’s WWII-era Nam Koo Terrace ghost myth into a sonic ritual of bowls, rice, and live electronics, revealing how shared superstitions and heritage continue to shape East/Southeast Asian identity
Kyami Mitsui Russell turns the untold love-story of their migrant parents into speculative fragments, using absence itself as material, to explore how missing family memories become the mythology that shapes ESEA identity. The music will be created alongside animation using AI to generate its movements
Find out more about the commissioned artists.
Midnight Rising is an intimate portrait of London’s East and South East Asian clubbing community, a world in which the allure of raving, extravagance, and hyperpop becomes an affirmation of love, acceptance, and joy. This world-within-a-world is instantly familiar - filled with ambitions, desires, and yearnings that reflect the joy and resistance of today.
In 2024, it was officially selected and screened at BFI LFF, Norwich Film Festival, Leeds IFF, Aesthetica, and Ann Arbor, and won Best International Short Documentary at Dublin International Film Festival. The producer, Kamila Serkebaeva, also was the executive producer for Kneecap (2024).
About Aileen Ye
Aileen Ye is a filmmaker and visual artist from Dublin. Focusing on diasporic subcultures and movement, her practice is rooted in sociological inquiry and lived experience. Her work explores control and the body as a site of resistance, memory, and rhythm, interrogating how certain bodies are framed within dominant visual ideologies. Her films have screened at BAFTA and Academy-qualifying festivals including BFI London Film Festival, Aesthetica, and Ann Arbor. She was awarded Best International Short Documentary at the 2024 Dublin International Film Festival and received the EVCOM UK Focus Award in 2022 for her debut short. Her work has also been exhibited at the BFI, ICA, NOWNESS Asia, Barbican Centre, LUX, FACT Liverpool, Art Rotterdam, and esea Contemporary.
Izzi is DJ and radio host whose sets are carefully crafted to reflect diasporic narratives and challenge borders. A key figure in the DAYTIMERS collective, she uses her platform to amplify underrepresented artists and sounds. Izzi’s sound defies easy categorisation, blending genres such as dancehall, dembow, amapiano, and gqom into a dynamic hybrid, while drawing rhythmic connections between ancestral sounds and cutting-edge club music.
A Reprezent Radio resident and a curator’s pick (with Opium Hum, Ahadadream and Trench Mag amongst her fans) Izzi has graced the stages of iconic London venues like The Cause, Phonox, and Village Underground, supporting artists like Flowdan and Surusinghe. Her festival highlights include a raucous set at Glastonbury’s Rum Shack, explosive sets at Boomtown and We Out Here, and international appearances from Berlin to Croatia’s Outlook Festival.