Elena Dao Jing Yu is an interdisciplinary artist working in drawing, video, performance, weaving, and collaborative works. Her work centers around the representation of physical space, memory, and movement through diagrammatic scores and collective explorations in costuming. Her scores read as both documents of the past and instructions for future works. Elena's Chinese-New Zealand-American mother and grandmother taught her to sew, knit, and crochet at a young age, and she continues these traditions with costumes that seek to expose the multitude of personas within us. She has exhibited, performed and hosted workshops at various venues including the Hammer Museum, the wulf., Royal Nonesuch Gallery, and other artist-run spaces and festivals. She is also a Whiz of Whiz World, a magical speculative feminist publication and collaborative network. Elena received her BA in Art from University of California, Los Angeles and lives and works in Joshua Tree, CA, where she makes art with elementary schoolers, hangs out her with desert idol Linda Carmella Sibio, and works at A-Z West and High Desert Test Sites.