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seen in LA, part II 1. Jet Pascua, An End and Begi seen in LA, part II
1. Jet Pascua, An End and Beginning and an End (foreground) and Rites of Men (on wall) at Torrance Art Museum, from his retrospective solo
2. Emilija Škarnulytė, RIPARIA at The Brick
3. Sondra Perry, Double Quadruple Negative Etcetera I & II at OxyArts
4. yétúndé olabagju, protolith: heat, pressure at The Brick
5. Tavares Strachan, The Encyclopedia of Invisibility at OxyArts
6. fuzzy faces at the LA River listening to Rosten Woo, What Water Wants, commissioned by Clockshop
7. Kite, Owítaya (Gathering) at The Brick
#arrearsonarrival #pacificstandardtime #lifeonearth #artandecofeminism #invisibilitypowersandperils
seen in LA 1. IkkibawiKrr collective, Seaweed Stor seen in LA
1. IkkibawiKrr collective, Seaweed Story at the Hammer, video of haenyeo on Jeju singing to the ocean
2. Cannupa Hanska Luger, awáasha (Sovereign Series) at the Hammer
3. detail of Amanda Williams, Patent To Black Space at California African American Museum
4. Ron Finley, Grounded at the Hammer
5. detail of Tiffany Chung, stored in a jar: monsoon, drowning fish, colored water, and the floating world at the Hammer
6. Oliver Husain & Kerstin Schroedinger, DNCB at ICA LA
7. KING COBRA sculpture at ICA LA—materials include dirt from J . Marion Sims’s grave and pink silicone slices from a replica of his head
8. Xandra Ibarra at ICA LA
9. beards at the beach
#pacificstandardtime #breath(e) #worldwithoutend #scientiasexualis
Glad @relatedtactics could contribute to @southern Glad @relatedtactics could contribute to @southernexposuresf’s 50th anniversary celebration with the installation of Ready (2021) as part of “A leaf a gourd a shell a net a bag a sling a sack a bottle a pot a box a container”on view through Nov 16th. 
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Ready features contributions from Pablo Andres Cristi (@pablo.cristi.studio), Al-An deSouza (@adesouza64), Katie Dorame (@katiedorame), Michelle Kuen Suet Fung (@michelleksfung), Caroline Garcia (@_garciagram), Ghana Think Tank (Maria del Carmen Montoya, Christopher Robbins, John Ewing - @ghanathinktank), Sonia Guiñansaca (@thesoniag), Taraneh Hemami (@taranehhemami), Sara Jamshidi (@_sarajamshidi_), Nanea Lum (@nanealum), Nicole Marroquin (@nmarroq), Tuan Andrew Nguyen (@tuan.andrew.nguyen), Gina Osterloh (#ginaosterloh), Related Tactics, Roberto Sifuentes (@rsifuentes), Tosha Stimage (#toshastimage), Christine Wong Yap (@christinewongyap), and select audience contributions from a 2019 exhibition with the Berkeley Art Center (@berkeleyartcenter). 
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The overarching exhibition also features work by @erinacalejo & #WilliamCollins (slide3); #EnriqueChagoya (slide 4) & @kara_maria_art; @pablo_tut (slide 5); #Futurefarmers & #ShaunOdell with #CatLauigan, #MattBrownell, #HendlMirra, #YasiPereira, & @venvoisey (slide 6); and @marcelpardoa & @juliandlopera (slide 7)
Deinstalled @relatedtactics’s Who Else But Ameri Deinstalled @relatedtactics’s Who Else But Americans from @icasanjose, but happy to bring it right over to @millsartmuseum for the upcoming Reshaping the Narrative: California Perspectives exhibition. Here’s a preview of it in this new configuration where it’ll be on view amidst some great work from MCAM’s collection by Hung Liu, Rupert Garcia, Craig Calderwood, Yolanda Lopez, Betty Kano, David Huffman, Yétundé Olagbaju, and many others. The exhibition, curated by @stephaniehanor runs Sept 14th-Nov24th, so here’s another chance to check out WEBA if you missed seeing it in San Jose.
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I was also happy to see a couple of my drawings that will be part of the exhibition and that I haven’t seen in years. They were reflections on the Means of Exchange (25th & Telegraph) installation that I did for the inaugural A+P+I residency at Mills in 2015. I’m so happy that they have been cared for by MCAM over these years and can be shared in this new context, including next to a more recent RT project.
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#individualandcollectivepractice #whoelsebutamericans #worksonpaper #millscollegeartmuseum #reshapingthenarrative #oakland
A couple @relatedtactics field trips: a peek at th A couple @relatedtactics field trips: a peek at the sfmoma exhibition design studio thanks to the awesome Sarah Choi (facilitated by @mia_nakano_oakland) and a stop by the P L A C E: Reckonings by Asian American Artists exhibition at @icasanjose where we ran into @jamesgleventhal and @adesouza64! 
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And if you didn’t already know: @michelekcarlson will be moderating a panel at the closing symposium for PLACE this coming Sunday at @montalvoarts featuring @aleesapalexander and @christinaayson. There will also be great panels organized by @zentronix and @christinewongyap! Registration on Montalvo’s site. 
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#miniatureartworks #exhibitiondesign #placereckoningsbyasianamericanartists
Tomorrow/Saturday, check out the opening of Trust Tomorrow/Saturday, check out the opening of Trust the Tides, an exhibition of work featuring and organized by the artist cohort of Kearny Street Workshop’s inaugural AVA Lab! I was lucky to spend some time working with this crew of deeply committed and powerful artists and I’m so excited to see the space they’re building and the work that they’ll have on view. Opening 12-3pm, exhibition on view through August 17th.

“@KearnyStreetWorkshop presents Trust the Tides, an exhibition by the AVA (APA Visual Artists) Lab inaugural cohort. Featuring work by Houyee Chow-Jiménez (@houyee), Michelle Lin (@firstborncryptid), Kim Requesto (@kimrequesto), Malaya Tuyay (@mah.lie.yuh), Ngân Vũ (@ngan.t.vu), and Jes Young (@jesyung)

Exhibition at Arc Gallery & Studios, 1246 Folsom St, SF, 94103.

ABOUT THE EXHIBiTION

This summer, when we spent time together in an old, wooden farmhouse overlooking the Pacific Ocean, we understood our practices to share values of collective empowerment–through education, cultural work, community organizing, and ancestral healing. Jes Young’s patchwork quilts, hand-dyed from local flora and guided by ritual, seeks to counter imperialist violence through a return to land and herbalism. Ngân Vũ’s photographs tell stories of her community’s intergenerational resilience and vulnerability. Malaya Tuyay’s mixed media textiles stitch mourning and memory to explore identity and possibilities of a radically new world. Kim Requesto’s photography transcends borders by uplifting the narratives of indigenous communities in the Philippines and diasporic Pilipinxs abroad. Michelle Lin’s tapestries weave bridges back to the parts of herself that were stolen while she was being raised within the imperial core. Houyee Chow-Jiménez paints portraits toward self acceptance and love, both for her community and for herself as a first generation, queer, and biracial artist.

During this time of isolation and grief, we found safety within each other, and learned to navigate an ocean of both peril and power, together. We offer you this exhibition with the hopes that you too will find rest and camaraderie through our work as individual artists and as a collective.”
A peek at a new @relatedtactics project, Nourishin A peek at a new @relatedtactics project, Nourishing Power, created in collaboration with @mia_nakano_oakland of @visibility_project and featuring artist takeaways from Joey Enríquez (@culturewarcriminal), Heather Hart (@heatherhartstudio), Elokin Orton-Cheung, Sun Park (@sunparkparksun), Tina Villadolid (@tinytina8), Kit Yan (@kityanpoet), and victor yañez-lazcano (@yanezlazcano). The project was commissioned by @asianamericanfutures and @aacrenetwork and will be launching today at @edgeonthesquare as part of the Walking Stories exhibition. 
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“Drawing inspiration from the role potlucks have played within Queer Asian American social justice groups, Nourishing Power offers an array of takeaway tools for gathering (prompts, objects, recipes for action, questions) that audiences can carry into the world and enact. Like a potluck, these tools will encourage people to bring something to share with their gatherings to sustain and nourish interconnectivity and empathy.”
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📷: 1: installation view; 2: takeaways by Sun Park (Screaming as a communal ritual: this is a potluck for expressing anger), Tina Villadolid (Potluck for rice memory), Elokin Orton-Cheung (Potluck for nourishing visions), victor yañez-lazcano (a potluck for a feeling…), ; 3: takeaways on the cart from Heather Hart (Earthseed: a potluck for surviving together) and Visibility Project (Potluck for Queer Asian American organizers); 4: installation view
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#nourishingpower #potluck #walkingstories
My new installation, The last muffled breaths of t My new installation, The last muffled breaths of the undead masculine, is up at the Berkeley Cube Space gallery on Addison. It’ll change by bits over time, but here’s the first phase. @berkeley_civic_arts 

paper sculpture (including cast papier mache, books, office supplies, inkjet prints, recycled cardboard, paper thread), soil gathered from former environmental impact sites, piezo mics, paper speakers, and electronics 

This project is the starting point for an ongoing process of exhalation: an extended exhortation; distorted, elongated words that draw out the poisons that have leaked into the earth and up into my toes and his calcified heart. Over the course of this exhibition, this installed mechanism will change, grow, fall apart. It is a paper ghost, far less solid than it might at first seem. The sculpture will turn in on itself, magnifying a death rattle so that he breaks himself apart with an ugly grunt; choking on the feedback and putting to rest the undead. But even as this piece grows and collapses, let’s remember not to revel in the destruction and expiration–moving fast and breaking things is a tired mode–we breathe to clear space for a cycle of new growth.
I’m happy to have contributed a catalog essay fo I’m happy to have contributed a catalog essay for this exhibition, “Reflecting on Ruth Asawa & the Garden of Remembrance,” opening Saturday, February 24th at the SFSU Fine Arts gallery (1-3pm). I’m also producing an accompanying podcast mini-series featuring interviews with each of the exhibiting artists: Mark Baugh-Sasaki (@mark_baugh_sasaki), Tina Kashiwagi (@ti_michiko), Paul Kitagaki, Jr (@paulkitagaki), Lisa Solomon (@lisasolomon), and TT Takemoto (@tt_takemoto). 

The first pod episode with Tina Kashiwagi is out now (link to feed in bio) and new eps will come out weekly. (Special thanks to #matthewlove for composing music for the series.)

The exhibition, co-curated by Sharon Bliss (@sebliss) & Kevin Chen (@kevin_b_chen), will be up through April 6th. The catalog also features essays by Patricia Wakida (@wasabipress) and #lewiskawahara. 

#ruthasawa #gardenofremembrance @sfsugallery
work in progress for an exhibition in April. 🔉 work in progress for an exhibition in April. 🔉
Paper speakers, cast paper blocks, electronic components, soil from Silicon Valley. Had to refresh my memory on how to put this stuff together since I havent played with some of these elements since being in residence at Mills in 2015. 
#thelastmuffledbreathsoftheundeadmasculine
2023. home in moving parts // the best studio assi 2023. home in moving parts // the best studio assistant // RT team // catalogue // sometimes not as helpful studio assistant // small son // collectivity prompts // conversations in community (including KSW & Edge on the Square)* // summit // holding close grandma’s smile forever
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in 2024 and forever let there be a free Palestine, dismantle apartheid regimes and their celebrations of death // more joy and dog time and working out shit together, listening, and growing // …
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*photos from KSW and Nordlys for Edge on the Square
A few pieces of Katerina Teaiwa’s Project Banaba A few pieces of Katerina Teaiwa’s Project Banaba at the Bishop Museum, an exploration of violence and extraction in Banaba in the Pacific, where the apparatuses of colonial phosphate mining led to ecological devastation and the complete displacement of all of the island’s peoples. The exhibition identifies connections to sugar plantations here in Hawai’i, where Banaban guano was imported to fertilize the fields and I-Kiribati people were brought in as contract laborers. She also shares some of the resistances that Banaban people have taken up over the years, from direct action to cultural survival in diaspora.
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Went to visit the exhibition as US governmental leaders unashamedly demonstrated their commitment to backing genocidal violence with ’prosperity guardian’ and z10nist settler colonial developers pitched their visions of ethnically cleansed beachfront properties. Recurring stories of investments in stolen land, violent displacement, stripped resources, and the moralistic justifications of these operations.
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 (Thank you to @tza_lagoldberg for telling me about the exhibition)
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#projectbanaba #otherpeoplesart
Thank you to @salmonleeann for sharing these poste Thank you to @salmonleeann for sharing these posters that have been translated into Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Korean: 1970s posters from the General Union of Palestinian Students, American University of Beirut. Updated design by Randa Tawil (@randaistall) and translated with Karin Mak, Esther Kim, Trinity Gabato, Kristi Mai, Kai Nham, Jennifer Chun, James Huynh, Lee Ann Wang. #freepalestine #🇵🇸
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A mix of #otherpeoplesart in Los Angeles: 1). #Gua A mix of #otherpeoplesart in Los Angeles:
1). #GuadalupeRosales in Made in LA at the Hammer;
2). details of #MariaMaea’s Lē Gata Faʻavavau, Matu, and Sisifo in Made in LA; 
3). detail of one of #EddieRodolfoAparicio’s stunning rubber and textile pieces, Taca, cuca, y màs, at the Geffen MOCA
4). detail of #RaúldeNieves’s Who Would We Be Without Our Memories?, in Nonmemory at Hauser & Wirth
5). #IshiGlinsky (with Teresa Baker, Prudy Correra, Della Cruz, Fred Cruz, Demian DinéYazhiʻ, River Garza, Tytianna Harris, Sheridan MacKnight, Eric-Paul Riege, Sarah Rosalena, and Bobby Dues Wilson), Inertia—Warn the Animals, in Made in LA;
6). #PaulPfeiffer’s Three Figures in a Room at the Geffen MOCA
7). detail of #LaurenHalsey’s dat fuss wuz us, in Nonmemory at Hauser & Wirth
8). @raghvib’s Unpredictable Time Piece 2 in her solo, Intermediations, at Murmurs
9). @gracerosarioo’s Baby, Sweetie Doll, and Lover from her solo, A Mirror, A Window, A Songbird, at deboer
10). #akjenkins’s Earlene Brown I: Heaving, part of The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Cycles of Collectivity at Redcat
Los Angeles folks! I’ll be down south in a coupl Los Angeles folks! I’ll be down south in a couple of weeks to give an artist talk at UCLA as part of @ucla_vals. Friday, December 1st at 7pm, the @ucla_art graduate studios at 3600 Hayden Ave in Culver City. Free and open to the public. ✨🌊
So glad to have had time with the rest of @related So glad to have had time with the rest of @relatedtactics to kick off the exhibition of our project, Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass, at the @corningmuseum last week. The conversations with the museum staff and visitors were energizing. And I appreciate that the exhibition, from the ideas behind the project to the specifics of installation, was a big institutional leap of faith that their team trusted us to make. It builds upon quiet work that allies have been doing for years and I look forward to how it feeds into ongoing and future change work.
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I’ve been sitting with these photos of us as a team to remember the joy and power in coming together. While there is a layer of institutional critique to the project, I think as a team we’ve always been more driven by the opportunity to create for and between artists of color; to dive into that generative and generous space. Recently there has been some racist troll chatter on one of the posts about the project—in particular the one with a team photograph of us (as opposed to the other project posts highlighting artworks). I’ve been thinking about that dynamic in relation to the inciting incident behind Disclosure as a whole: we wrote The Whiteness of Glass for the New Glass Review because of the extractive use of photographs of Black artists (without their permission) by institutions trying to make their equity statements in 2020. I’m still trying to unpack the threads here, but I’ve been thinking about what it means to be imaged and visible, our agency in shaping work and documentation, and why we insist on building a space for ourselves and the community we hold dear. It’s also a reminder that when we build together and position our collective work as a critical challenge to systemic power and whiteness, there is going to be discomfort and pushback on our very visual presence. One of the most egregious troll comments described us as “seething brown people...lectur[ing]” and ultimately there’s no other crew that I’d rather do that ‘angry’ work with. ha
Looking forward to the conversation tonight with t Looking forward to the conversation tonight with the rest of @relatedtactics x @cherylderricottestudio @pearldick and @emilymleach for the Connected by Glass hybrid discussion that kicks off the opening of Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass at the @corningmuseum.
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Thank you to @risepeacock @landis.tami @katfred1 for shepherding this exhibition and being generous hosts. ✨ The museum’s install team are rockstars and I’m still jazzed about the conversation we got to have with Olivia and the rest of the education team. ✨ And a special shout out to @susiesilbert for being our first advocate in building this work. ✨
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1) The struggle for people of color to identify legacies of other artists of color fractured and hidden by white supremacy (re-imagined), Related Tactics with Cheryl Derricotte and Pearl Dick, part of Disclosure;
2) exhibition catalogue designed by @morcoskey;
3) detail of Navigating the institution while being simultaneously invisible and hypervisible(re-imagined), Related Tactics with Emily Leach and Raya Friday, part of Disclosure;
4) detail of The shape of living as a perceived threat (re-imagined), Related Tactics with Einar & Jamex De la Torre and Helen Lee, part of Disclosure;
5) foreground - Temporary approaches to change exhaust resources and erode trust (re-imagined), Related Tactics with Corey Pemberton and Kim Thomas, part of Disclosure; @2natewatson talking with @landis.tami in background
Next week @relatedtactics will be in Corning, NY f Next week @relatedtactics will be in Corning, NY for the opening of our exhibition, Disclosure: the Whiteness of Glass at the @corningmuseum (on view from November through March). The installation will open to the public with a hybrid panel discussion on Nov 9th with @michelekcarlson, @2natewatson, & me, along with contributing project artists @cherylderricotte, @pearldick, and @emilymleach (who will be moderating)—registration link in bio. Looking forward to also getting to see the the limited run catalogue produced by the museum, designed by @morcoskey, that brings together the different layers of the process behind the project.
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We also recently produced a piece, In Our World We Are Whole, for “A Two-Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists” at the @museumofglass in Tacoma (on view through Oct 27, 2024), curated by @jabari_o_b. The project builds from recent projects like Disclosure that examine equity in the glass field and move toward creating a space between artists of color.
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images: 
1. detail of ephemera by @rayafriday from Navigating the institution while being simultaneously invisible and hypervisible(re-imagined), by Related Tactics with Emily Leach and Raya Friday, part of Disclosure, photo courtesy of the Corning Museum of Glass; 

2. installation detail of exhibition at the @centerforcraft of Surviving as the anomaly created by white supremacy(re-imagined), by Related Tactics with Ché Rhodes and Vanessa German, part of Disclosure, photo courtesy of Jordan Whitten and the Center for Craft; 

3. installation detail from exhibition at the Center for Craft of The struggle for people of color to identify legacies of other artists of color fractured and hidden by white supremacy (re-imagined), by Related Tactics with Cheryl Derricotte and Pearl Dick, part of Disclosure; 

4. draft review pages from forthcoming catalogue; 

5. installation detail of In Our World We Are Whole at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, photo by Nate Watson

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