Genny Lim performs at San Francisco’s Festival 2000, a 23-day arts
festival held in 1990. Jon Jang’s “SenseUs!” featured musicians Max
Roach, John Santos, Jang with poets Sonia Sanchez, Victor Hernandez
Cruz and Genny Lim.
"During the summer of 1989, there was a press
release announcement about a multicultural arts festival called
Festival 2000 that will present performances, concerts and
exhibitions during the entire month of October in 1990. Festival
2000 also announced that they will be commissioning new works to
premiere at the festival through an application process.
I met with Francis Wong and Joe Lambert, who was the Executive
Director of Life on the Water, a mid-size experimental theater
company located at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco… Joe came up
with the title of the project: SenseUs! or it could be written as
SenseUS! SenseUs is a pun for the 1990 Census. SenseUs! could
also serve as clarion call to sense artists of color in the
context of the multicultural arts wars in San Francisco. SenseUS!
could also mean to Sense the United States including people of
color not just white America."