Based on his personal Asian diasporic experience as well as his research on the Zen Buddhist ideals of erasure and existence, Hollow Center consists of three parts: a short film, dance, and publication. The experimental short film is developed in collaboration with filmmaker Roland Dahwen, and uses footage of Takahiro Yamamoto’s physical movement practice and visual/audio experiments with exposure, noise, and animation to explore the concept of opacity (what to implicitly keep abstracted without making it legible and translatable for the sake of understanding by the dominant culture). The dance portion will be placed in two settings: 1) A four-hour performance installation performed by Yamamoto in a gallery setting for three days; 2) A sixty-minute dance that sequences a solo, performed by Yamamoto with set choreography and structured improvisational scores, alongside a duet consisting of Yamamoto and a local performer at each venue, which will be collaboratively created; and 3) a book comprised of his essays based on dramaturgical research as well as contributions (visual image, poetry, transcription of conversation) from his community members who identify with the phenomenon of living in a diaspora.