More recently, the videos and installations related to "KOKO’s Love" focus on the different characters to tell a more in depth story of their past lives. "You’re Married.... Now What?" goes back in time to the 1960's to introduce the beginnings of the relationship between the liquor store owner Hiroshi and his wife Keiko via the form of a television talk show/game show for newlyweds. The installation is the video set of the show "You're Married.... Now What?" with a 100'' screen that viewers can watch the show from, as they sit in the actual chairs that the characters use. "KOKO’s Love" is multifaceted and manifests itself in different forms, such as a single-channel video, a video installation/sculpture, and painting. Using tropes from East-Asian soap operas, I have created my version of an East-Asian/Asian-American hybrid soap in "KOKO's Love: Episode 1", about a Japanese-American family, whose patriarch is a liquor store owner in South Central Los Angeles that annoyingly insists on the importance of having a male inherit the family business and not a female, his only child, a daughter. It explores the intersectionality of expectations and perceptions of gender roles of women and men, exposing the absurdity of the male hegemonic structure in the contemporary Asian-American family. 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