Under the Blue Moon: A Participatory Performance
Herbal Recipes for Meditation, Dreams, and Intuition
1-Hour Performance
Date
Saturday, May 30, 2026
7:00–8:00 PM
Door Opens at 6:30 pm
Price
Free to the public, donation on site.
*Up to 30 participants per session.
On the eve of a rare Sagittarius Full Blue Moon, we invite you to cross the threshold of day and night, into an intimate gathering that dissolves the traditional boundary between stage and spectator.
The free public performance serves as a slow, intentional pause within the overarching exhibition A Waking Dream. It weaves an elemental architecture through an unhurried, circular flow. The performance flows unhurriedly through five sensory and elemental coordinates, allowing every participant to step directly into a living dialogue:
Opening (Fire & Air): We will begin by lighting a central candle and a sage bundle at the heart of a spiral seating arrangement, clearing the energy of the space.
Communal (Water): Guests will be greeted with a cup of tea—a gesture of water and containment—and led through a guided seated meditation by Sascha Mallon. This phase focuses on anchoring, creating internal space to allow for stillness and openness. We pass a beautiful porcelain water bowl around. Guests quietly hold it for a moment of connection and reflection.
Ceremonial Activation (Sound): Wendy Letven will activate her sculptural installation with video projection and an improvisational percussion performance by her partner, Gary Fredriksen, building upon the contemplative atmosphere of the preceding meditation through a shared sonic and visual experience.
Recalibration (Scent): Davina Hsu brings the ritual into the aromatic realm, passing a custom container of circular, moon-shaped wooden tokens. Scented with a custom-blended essential oil that balances fire and water energies, these tokens act as physical seeds to ground each participant’s new alignment.
Following these elemental shifts, our shared space moves into a relaxed, non-hierarchical open conversation. Together, the artists, curator, and attendees will weave the knots of their subconscious experiences together, reflecting on Jungian archetypes and the vast cosmic landscape of the Sagittarius Blue Moon.
Artist
Wendy Letven (b.1962) is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation and painting in the New York area. She received a B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art and an M.F.A. from Hunter College. She currently serves on the faculty of The New School at Parsons School of Design. In 2024, Letven realized a major public commission for NYC’s Percent for Art program, installing a large-scale ceiling sculpture for a public school in New York. She is a MacDowell Fellow and a recipient of the Workspace Grant from Dieu Donné (New York) and the 2023 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship for Sculpture. Her work has been featured in significant public installations and art fairs, including Art on Paper Fair, New York (2025); Arts Brookfield, New York (2024); Riverside Park, New York (2021); Urban Outfitters Headquarters, Philadelphia (2020); PULSE Art Fair, Miami (2019); and the Flatiron Prow Artspace, New York (2018). Her works have been exhibited across the United States, including Fou Gallery, New York (2020/2026); site-specific installations at the Art on Paper Fair in New York and Amsterdam with NL=US Gallery (2023–2025); Brookfield Place Winter Garden Gallery, New York (2022) and Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York (2018).
Davina Hsu (b.1981, Taipei, Taiwan ) is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist whose work centers on a fiber-based practice and extends into public art and social practice, exploring the thresholds between energy, materiality, mysticism, and socio-emotional healing. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design (2009) and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts (2023). She was a recipient of the New Futures Artist Award from The Other Art Fair (2023) and the Edward Zutrau Memorial Award (2022). Her works have been exhibited across the United States and Taiwan, including Fou Gallery, New York (2026); Turley Gallery, Hudson, New York (2025); Yang.Collective, New York (2025); ArtBridge Projects New York (2025); Wassaic Project, New York (2024) and Soka Art Center, Taipei and Tainan. She has also participated in an artist-in-residence program at the Wassaic Project (2023), and was commissioned by Battery Park City Authority and the ArtBridge to create a public art installation in South Battery Park City, New York (2024).
Sascha Mallon (b. 1967, Linz, Austria) Born in Austria and based in Beacon, New York, Mallon creates a large-scale wall installation incorporating wall painting, textile and porcelain elements. Mallon studied art therapy at the ISSA / School for Art Therapy in Austria and is a certified Meditation Teacher, trained at Tibet House New York. Mallon has exhibited her work internationally, including a spotlight presentation at the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York (2026), as well as group exhibitions at Remote Gallery, Toronto (2025); The CAMP Gallery, Miami (2025); Pen + Brush Gallery, New York (2023); Albany International Airport, New York (2021), and the Katonah Museum of Art, New York (2020), among others. Since 2012, she has worked as a Hospital Artist-in-Residence with The Creative Center at Mount Sinai, focusing on oncology and bone marrow transplant patients. In 2014–2015, she received a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council to work with HIV patients through the PATH program at Brooklyn Hospital.
Curator
Echo Yu He currently serves as Director of Fou Gallery and Research Services Director at Pace Gallery. She previously served as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and now teaches at New York University (2026 Spring Semester). In 2013, Echo founded Fou Gallery. In recognition of her curatorial leadership and contributions to contemporary art discourse, Echo has received the Yishu Award for Curating Contemporary Chinese Art (Shanghai, 2016), a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition (New York, 2018), a New York State Assembly Certificate of Merit (New York, 2020), and was nominated as a Rising Star at the AAPI Women’s Gala (New York, 2024). In addition to her curatorial and research work, she is a prolific art writer, contributing regularly to publications such as The Art Newspaper (China), Art China, Condé Nast Traveler, Lens, Marie Claire, Tussle Magazine, and World Heritage Geography.
Payment and Cancellation Policy
At Fou Gallery, we are dedicated to offering meaningful and enriching experiences through our courses. Due to the intimate nature of our programs and the detailed planning required with our instructors, we kindly ask for your understanding of our non-refundable policy. Once registered for a course, all payments are final and cannot be refunded.
