Video about performance artist Linda Nishio created by the Watase Media Arts Center at the Japanese American National Museum for the Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design & Activism exhibition on view from October 15, 2011 through February 19, 2012. For more information, visit http://www.janm.org/exhibits/drawingtheline.

Linda Nishio (b. 1952) grew up in Los Angeles and attended the University of Kansas and Rutgers University, where she developed a multimedia art practice that involved photography, video and film, bookmaking and live performance. Her work centers around the definition and redefinition of self—exploring the ways that we see ourselves, the psychology of that vision, and the way that others see us. The work displayed in this exhibition focuses on several moments of her creative production shortly after her return to Los Angeles in the late 1970s.