Operatic countertenor, composer and producer Ju-eh/Juecheng is interrupting (and updating) the genre with electronic sound, new media, and imaginative audience engagement. Ju-eh will be in conversation with BRIC’s Senior Performing Arts Curator, BJ Evans. Bridge Works opens a window to artists’ studio practices then intersects their process with intimate conversations with leading Brooklyn creatives. Connecting insights between artists whose voices are both parallel and divergent, Bridge Works amplifies the creative space as a generative space for community building. These first episodes will air on Brooklyn Arts Council’s Facebook Live and feature 2020 grantees. Bio Ju-eh/Juecheng Chen is a true 21st century artist. As an operatic countertenor/male soprano, he specializes in providing answers to what opera can be in the lens of today. He was featured in unique non-human roles such as Lonely Spirit (Meredith Monk's opera Atlas at the L.A. Philharmonic in which he sang 6 soprano high Cs), Siren (Ellis Ludwig-Leone’s The Night Falls with American Opera Projects) and the Moon (Garrett Fisher’s Blood Moon with Beth Morrison Projects in which he sings in soprano range with self conducted choreography) among others. As a composer, producer and overall conceptual curator, Ju-eh has initiated projects that defy genre, period or easy categorization including his own starred musical drama The Living Dying Opera based on the story of his life; his solo album Operatic Electric with Gene Pritsker and he was recently awarded a Brooklyn Arts Council grant for his multimedia project UnOpera. The awarded project UnOpera is a multimedia project experimenting on dissolving known operatic arias into sonic scenes with facial projection mappings related to time, formlessness and spirituality. Led by performer/producer Ju-eh, who has a truly unique understanding of western operatic singing and meditation practices, UnOpera has attracted a group of exceptional young composers, designers and players based in Brooklyn for this exciting project.