A Rare Bird

In Memoriam: Diana Oh (Zaza D). Artist, Lover, Pleasure-Muse, Healer, Friend

Unboxable Artist, Sonic Ritualist, and Actor Zaza Diana Oh’s (they/them) A Rare Bird is pulled from THE DESIRE ARCHIVES, Oh's year-long personal study on epigenetics, desire, and the brain. A Rare Bird is an interdisciplinary choreo-play, Live Physical Intimacy, and Quiet and Honest Sex Show, as it captures Skye and Gabriel’s date on the carpeted floor against the couch of a studio apartment where neither is willing or able to make the first move. A Rare Bird blends, defies, and subverts Erotic Thriller Cinema, Narrative Play, Stage Sex Show, and finally the Quiet and Slow Sex Education so many of us long for. While seeking Refuge in Ceremony, this is an ode to Introversion, (loud) pauses, and letting less be.

Pink Fang's commission of A Rare Bird was made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Pink Fang supported developmental workshops of A Rare Bird in 2023 and 2024.