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Yuka Honda: I Am Yoko

Fri, Sep 25, 2026
Music
A person with short dark hair, wearing a black top, is focused on a laptop and electronic equipment on a dark stage, illuminated by blue lighting. Their motion creates a blurred effect on their face.
Nels Cline & Yuka Honda, River Mouth, Unseen Green. Photo: Chiiho Tanaka. Courtesy the artist.

Event Details

Tickets & Info

When Fri, Sep 25, 2026
Where McGuire Theater
Time 7:30 pm
Price Tickets start at $30

“This is the unique beauty of Yuka [Honda]’s art: a Pop art that mocks the intangible unnaturalness of the contrived Pop of our times.” —DeBaser

Producer and multi-instrumentalist Yuka Honda presents a two-part performance dedicated to longtime friend and collaborator Yoko Ono. Accompanied by a full band, Honda performs the Midwest debut of the full concert version of her and Glenn Kaino’s forthcoming I Am Yoko opera. She also invites notable collaborators, including Theo Bleckmann and Jason Lindner, onstage to perform an improvised live score to Ono and John Lennon’s 1970 avant-garde film Fly.

Yuka Honda: I Am Yoko is part of the two-night Walker collaboration River Mouth, Unseen Green. Perhaps best known for their ensemble work— Nels Cline with indie rock band Wilco and Yuka Honda with ’90s art-pop duo Cibo Matto—they innovate continually as solo artists. For River Mouth, Unseen Green, they bring a stacked lineup of friends and collaborators for a one-of-a-kind musical blowout.

Ensemble

Theo Bleckmann, Nels Cline, Emi Helfrich, Devra Hoff, Yuka Honda, Jason Lindner, Maggie Parkins, Macie Stewart, and Alex Toth

Accessibility

If you have questions about accessibility at the Walker or would like to request an accommodation, please contact Visitor Services at access@walkerart.org or 612-375-7564 at least two weeks before the event.

Content and Sensory Information

Content note: This work includes nudity.

Program support provided by Jay Kim.