Asher Hartman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and director whose work at the junction of visual art and theater centers on the exploration of the self in relation to Western histories and ideologies.  He is also one half of the intuitive duo Krystal Krunch (with Haruko Tanaka) whose performances and workshops have been presented in variety of venues including The Pulitzer Art Museum, St. Louis; The Hayward Gallery, London; The Walker Art Center; Minneapolis, and The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburg; Real Art Ways, Hartford; and Extrapool, Netherlands; Hartman’s recent theatrical works include Sorry Atlantis, Eden’s Achin’ Organ Seeks Revenge, Machine Project, 2017;Mr. Akita, Hauser & Wirth 2017, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) 2017, and originally at the Frances Young Tang Museum Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, New York 2015; The Silver, the Black, the Wicked Dance, LACMA 2016; Purple Electric Play!, Machine Project 2014; Glass Bang, at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture’s RM Schindler’s Fitzpatrick-Leland House as part of Machine Project’s engagement in the Getty Museum’s Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.