The final print catalog for the exhibition, Reflecting on Ruth Asawa & The Garden of Remembrance, that took place at the SFSU Fine Arts Gallery this past spring has been released. The calalog includes Resuscitating Memories in the Body, my essay about the artwork of Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Tina Kashiwagi, Paul Kitagaki, Jr., Lisa Solomon, and TT Takemoto. The full digital catalog is downloadable from gallery website here.

Related Tactics worked with artist & designer Helen Shewolfe Tseng to translate our text, On Hospitality for Artists of Color, into a broadside poster print. The piece was originally written as a reflection following up on our Thick Solidarity project at the Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo and was included in Montalvo’s publication Hello, Goodbye, Hello. The Lucas Artists Residency Program has copies for sale.

Related Tactics also contributed “Us Is _____,” a conversation-in-footnotes, to Locating a Collective Lyric “I,” a special folio edited by Leila Easa & Jennifer Stager in issue 17.1 of the The Hopkins Review (issue available to order in print or digital download).

“We fight with the term “or” often. Our elbows poke against the common desire to reduce us to a singularity that rolls more easily off the tongue and into funding requests, press releases, and curatorial statements. We face the need to minimize our individuality for our coming together as if it is not this very multitude that makes us stronger. The parts of us that we each individually or collectively use every day may not be recognizable to anyone else. But isn’t this need for legibility also part of what reenforces the powers that oppress us? We have come to understand that it will take all parts of us to break this down.”

“…there are moments where I’ve wondered if the duration and growing track record of our work together means we are slowly pulled into the gravitational hole of radical individualism even as we resist it…Perhaps there is a productive tension in the ways that we can occasionally slip into these individual-oriented systems but generate a consistent, low-level friction that serves as a reminder that the standard operating procedures can change to accommodate more of us—maybe all of us.”