"KOKO's Love" is a hybrid East-Asian/Asian-American parodic soap opera self-written, performed, produced, and directed to be presented within a real or created home environment. It explores the intersectionality of expectations and perceptions of gender roles within a family, exposing the absurdity of the male hegemonic structure in the contemporary family. This story revolves around a family liquor store (KOKO's Liquor) where the drama is created by the male protagonist that insists on the importance of having a male inherit the family business and not a female, his only child, a daughter. The absurdity and humor arise from my process where I play both male and female characters in extremely exaggerated contemporary family situations. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statue that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. BIOGRAPHY: YOSHIE SAKAI Lives and works in Los Angeles, California www.yoshiesakai.com Born in Torrance, California. 1994: BA in Communication Studies/Ancient Greek & Latin from UCLA. 2004: BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach. 2009: MFA in Painting and Video Installation from Claremont Graduate University. Yoshie is a multidisciplinary artist (video, sculpture, installation, and performance) whose work creates an uneasy environment that embodies her love-hate relationship with pop culture, as she uses humor to tackle anxiety about defining herself positively within the idealistic world created by the mass media. More recently, her work challenges the myth of the “model minority” to reveal the complexities that lie underneath the guise of superficial “perfection” of being both Asian-American and a woman in society. Yoshie attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014 and most recently is a Smack Mellon 2015 Hot Pick. She is also the recipient of the 2012 California Community Foundation for Visual Artists Emerging Artist Fellowship. Her work has been shown throughout the United States in film festivals and art exhibitions from Los Angeles to Miami, as well as internationally in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Victoria, BC, Canada. SCREENINGS AND FILM FESTIVALS: 2015 The Situation Room Opening Video Screening, The Situation Room, Los Angeles, California 2014 Antimatter [media art] Film Festival No. 17, Open Space Arts Centre, Victoria, BC, Canada 2014 Videotag, thinhstudio, Hawthorne, California 2014 BYOBeamer, March 7, 2014, Common LBAC, Long Beach, California 2013 Open Video Night, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California 2013 Backyard Video Festival, 1924 Landis Street, Burbank, California 2011 Antimatter Film Festival No. 14, Open Space Arts Centre, Victoria, BC, Canada 2011 2nd Fridays Summer Film Series: July 8, 2011, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, California 2010 ARKUFF (Arkansas Underground Film Festival), Malco Theatre Complex, Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas 2009 Antimatter Film Festival No. 12, Open Space Arts Centre, Victoria, BC, Canada 2009 Assume Nothing: New Social Practice, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada 2008 A B(o)MB Artoconecto Exhibition 2008, The Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, Florida 2008 Hollywould…Freewaves 11th Festival of Experimental Media Arts, On Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California 2008 Antimatter Film Festival No. 11, Open Space Arts Centre, Victoria, BC, Canada 2008 Bearded Child Film Festival, Myles Reif Performing Arts Center, Grand Rapids and Minneapolis, Minnesota 2007 Antimatter Underground Film Festival No. 10, Open Space Arts Centre, Victoria, BC, Canada