The Silent Unseen Audio Tour

Guided by narration, the audio tour invites participants to consider feelings, sensations, and the lived experiences of Asian American immigrants in relation to the space and architecture of the museum and Flushing Meadows Park. ayo ohs, along with special guests Betty Yu, Grace M. Cho, Helen Hyun-Kyung Park, Helen Zia, and Julman Tolentino, guide you through a journey of embodiment, somatic contemplation, and family histories. After experiencing the audio tour, participants are invited to leave a story of their own, creating an archive of oral histories and expanding the scope and scale of Asian American history.

The audio tour was conceived in the Engaging Artists’ fellowship at More Art, a NYC-based public art organization, and developed further through a 5-week art residency at Yaddo. It is inspired by conversations in community, activities with PISAB’s Asian Affinity group, and a lifetime of experiences.

The audio tour is the first part of a multi-tiered larger project, The Silent Unseen, exploring, unsilencing, and uplifting the voices of the Asian American diaspora. 

In 2025, ayo ohs will present a panel discussion with Grace M. Cho, author of Tastes Like War, and Faye Yuan, producer of Queens Memory Podcast: Our Major Minor Voices, and other guests to discuss creative telling of Asian American histories.

ayo ohs (A.O./she/they) is a socially engaged artist and director, working in sound, movement, and healing arts. ayo has presented choreography, original songwriting, and spatialized audio at venues in NY and San Francisco, where their work was described as “feisty, clever and poignant” by the SF Bay Guardian. As an anti-racist organizer and somatic healer, ayo is a co-facilitator of Radical Love and Equity, a founding member of Movement Research’s Artist of Color Council, and has worked at many community-based non-profits including the Healing Justice Collective at the Audre Lorde Project, under the direction of Cara Page. ayo was a close collaborator with Andrew Schneider in performance and direction with AFTER (The Public Theatre), NERVOUS/SYSTEM and NOWISWHENWEARE (BAM Next Wave 2018, 2022). From 2013-2018, ayo was a collaborative performer with Faye Driscoll, including performances at the Venice Biennale, the Walker Art Center, Onassis Cultural Center Athens, and other international and national tours. They hold a BFA in Experimental Theater from NYU with a minor in political science, summa cum laude, and have studied Somatic Abolitionism with Resmaa Menakam and music production at Berklee College of Music Online. ayo lives in Lenapehoking/ Brooklyn, NY. ayoohs.com