LA PHIL INSIGHT, MOCA AND HAEGUE YANG ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF STAR-CROSSED RENDEZVOUS
SPECIAL VIEWING OF YANG’S EXHIBITION AT MOCA AND PERFORMANCE OF ISANG YUN’S DOUBLE CONCERTO AT WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL MARK CULMINATION OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY EXAMINATION OF YUN’S LIFE AND WORK
Haegue Yang, Star-Crossed Rendezvous after Yun, 2024, aluminum venetian blinds, powder-coated aluminum hanging structure, steel wire rope, moving spotlights, DMX controller, speaker, tripod. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of Leap Year, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2024. Photo by Mark Blower.
LOS ANGELES, CA (February 3, 2026)— LA Phil Insight, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and artist Haegue Yang today announced program details for Star-Crossed Rendezvous on Tuesday, March 10, 2026.
A dual-site collaboration between two of the Grand Avenue Cultural District’s flagship institutions, the evening centers around Isang Yun’s musical composition, Double Concerto for oboe, harp, and small orchestra (1977), which audiences will encounter twice within one evening. First, audiences will experience Haegue Yang’s sprawling installation Star-Crossed Rendezvous (2024), as part of her exhibition at MOCA Grand Avenue, open from 5–8pm.
Then, attendees will make their way across Grand Avenue to experience the music of Isang Yun, itself a central focus of Yang’s work. The LA Phil New Music Group, led by conductor Earl Lee, will perform Yun’s Double Concerto for oboe, harp, and small orchestra with oboist Ryan Roberts (Los Angeles Philharmonic principal oboe) and Emmanuel Ceysson (Los Angeles Philharmonic principal harp) at 8pm.
A part of the LA Phil’s 2025/26 Body and Sound festival, the dual-site project aims to activate audiences’ senses, to travel across disparate places and time and to create an immersive sonic and visual journey that will unfold across the partner institutions’ unique architectural sites.
This collaboration follows MOCA and Yang’s November 22, 2025 symposium “Star-Crossed Rendezvous: The Musical Legacy of Isang Yun,” a daylong event which gathered esteemed musicologists, historians, composers and musicians to explore the life and musical legacy of Isang Yun (1917–1995) and his importance to the history of avant-garde classical music. The program, which included a panel discussion with Ryan Dohoney, Texu Kim, Mina Lee and Anne C. Shreffler moderated by Joy Calico; performances of Yun’s chamber and solo works by students of the Colburn School; and keynote presentations from Dohoney and Lee, drew on the depth of research undertaken by Yang which underlies the March exhibition and performance.
LA Phil President and Chief Executive Officer Kim Noltemy says, “We are honored to partner with MOCA—our neighbor in the Grand Avenue Cultural District and one of the visionary stewards of contemporary art in our city and beyond—to spotlight the legacy of Isang Yun and the work of Haegue Yang. A highlight of the LA Phil’s Body and Sound festival, this institutional collaboration expands the contexts in which music can be considered from the concert hall to the gallery.”
Interim Maurice Marciano Director of MOCA Ann Goldstein stated: “This collaboration with LA Phil exemplifies MOCA’s commitment to interdisciplinary exchange and to creating experiences that unfold across institutions, disciplines, and audiences. By bringing Haegue Yang’s installation into dialogue with the music of Isang Yun, this project invites visitors to move across Grand Avenue, and to encounter art and music as interconnected forms that deepen our understanding of history, migration, and shared cultural memory.”
MOCA Chief Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs Clara Kim states, “This project brings together two extraordinary figures, who share a diasporic existence having lived and worked between Korea and Germany, negotiating and bridging cultures, places and time. Their art and music speaks to the power of artistic expression to reawaken forgotten histories and the potential of sensorial experience to imagine modes of togetherness. We are thrilled to bring this work to audiences in Los Angeles.”
Haegue Yang: Star-Crossed Rendezvous is organized by Paula Kroll, Assistant Curator, with Clara Kim, Chief Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
LA Phil Insight is generously supported by Linda and David Shaheen. Support for Star-Crossed Rendezvous is provided by the Hillenburg Family.