MOCA presents Wonmi’s Warehouse Programs from November 7, 2025 – March 1, 2026
Los Angeles, CA—The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents the winter season of Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA on select dates from November 7, 2025 through March 1, 2026. Founded in 2019, Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs is MOCA’s signature platform for live art, foregrounding sensorial experiences centered on the body, movement, and sound, and rooted in experimentation and artist-led innovation.
Featuring four performances by female-identifying artists–Lenio Kaklea, Diane Severin Nguyen, Odeya Nini, and Mindy Seu–the new season includes U.S. and West Coast premieres and is anchored by major commissions from Kaklea and Nguyen. Spanning dance, lecture performance, vocal experimentation, and a protest concert, these artists offer polyphonic responses to just some of the dualities that coexist in our current moment: technology and the body, the material and the ephemeral, nostalgia and futurity, autonomy and oppression.
“Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs has always been a vital platform for live art at MOCA, bringing together bold voices who expand the ways we experience performance today. This season, we are proud to spotlight four extraordinary artists whose work challenges conventions and opens new pathways for thinking about the intersections of body, sound, and technology,” said Ann Goldstein, Interim Maurice Marciano Director.
“Performance evolves in relation to its setting, the cultural and political environment, and the communities who take part. Our next season of Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs seeks to showcase the power of live art through works that engage directly with the singular architecture of WAREHOUSE and highlight connections between artistic practice and participatory democracy,” said Alex Sloane, MOCA Associate Curator and organizer of Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs.
The season opens with the US premiere of Lenio Kaklea’s new work, The Birds. Co-commissioned by MOCA, The Birds is the artist’s first presentation on the West Coast. Featuring choreography for seven “hybrid beings”, the work grapples with the pervasive threat of surveillance and coercive systems of power through the movement and behaviors of birds, drawing attention to the individual, the flock, and the omnipresent gaze of the hunter above.
Artist and technologist Mindy Seu presents the West Coast premiere of her new lecture performance, A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET. Using a participatory format, Seu highlights the origins of our technological tools and addresses how technology has shaped and been shaped by sexuality.
Experimental vocalist Odeya Nini’s ODE works directly with the architecture and spatial acoustics of WAREHOUSE to magnify sound’s intangible capacity to touch and influence space and bodies. A solo vocal performance, ODE continues MOCA’s recent commitment to site specific sound work as Nini seeks to reclaim the voice as an instrument that extends beyond the body.
The winter season of Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs concludes with MOCA Focus: Diane Severin Nguyen presenting War Songs, the artist’s first live artwork and the first MOCA Focus project to feature performance. MOCA’s Focus series, relaunched in 2023, highlights an artist’s first solo museum presentation in Los Angeles and centers on distinct bodies of work.
A powerful new commission debuting in New York at the Performa 2025 Biennial, War Songs adopts the form of an anti-Vietnam War protest concert and examines how images and media shape identity and history. Comprising a cast of eleven performers from across disciplines, the performance weaves together new interpretations of iconic anti-war anthems, folk songs, and recent hits to explore how our collective yearning for the aesthetics and iconography of past struggles continues to influence contemporary ideas of resistance, truth, and freedom.
