2024. Resuscitating Memories in the Body. SFSU Fine Arts Gallery.
A catalog essay for the exhibition, Reflecting on Ruth Asawa & The Garden of Remembrance, featuring artists Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Tina Kashiwagi, Paul Kitagaki, Jr., Lisa Solomon, and TT Takemoto, Feb-April 2024. (Link is to excerpt from the full catalog. Digital catalog downloadable from gallery website here.)
2024. Us Is ____. The Hopkins Review.
A piece written by Related Tactics as part of a special folio, “Locating a Collective Lyric ‘I’,” edited by Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager for Issue 17.1 (Winter 2024) of The Hopkins Review.
2024. On Hospitality for Artists of Color. Hello, Goodbye, Hello. Montalvo Arts Center.
A piece written by Related Tactics for Hello, Goodbye, Hello, a publication reflecting on 20 years of the Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo. Linked image is a poster version designed by Helen Shewolfe Tseng for RT.
2021-ongoing. exhibition texts for Recology Artist-in-Residence. San Francisco. [email for samples]
Including essays about the work of Kija Lucas, Sahar Khoury, Samedi Djeimguero (with Lacey Johnson), Minoosh Zomorodinia, Macrowaves, and Bryan Keith Thomas, among others.
2023. Monumental Sense. Beyond Granite – Pulling Together newspaper, Monument Lab.
A short piece created by Related Tactics as part of Monument Lab’s newspaper accompanying the Beyond Granite: Pulling Together project on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Design by Joey Enriquez for Related Tactics.
2022. Asian American Art as a Monument. Brooklyn Rail. July/August 2022. [web version | print version ]
A short piece written by Related Tactics as part of a “flash talk” on Asian American art that was published in the Brooklyn Rail (July/Aug 2022 both print and online) along with ~70 other artists and organized/edited by Susette Min and Amy Sadao. Please find their framing essay here: “Abolition of a Category .”
2020. Where shall we go from here?. YBCA Zine. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. [external link]
An essay reflecting on home and memory through my research into the visual language and history of the Ward development in Honolulu. (Related to expansion (land.water.sky).) Commissioned by curator Lian Ladia for her YBCA fellowship project series “If a tree falls.”
2020. The Whiteness of Glass. New Glass Review, vol. 41, pg. 4-5. [.pdf link]
A short piece written by Related Tactics that delves into the institutional whiteness of the glass field and the impacts this has on Black artists and other POC folks. The project also expands on Related Tactics’ previous project, No Matter the Intentions. Commissioned by Susie J. Silbert of the Corning Museum for NGR.
2012. The Language of Seeds & Tents. Hyphen, 25, pg. 76-78. [.pdf link]
An essay examining the ways artists Gaye Chan and Mike Arcega shape and explore public space through their work.
2007. Do Pirates Dream of Pixelated Sheep?: Asian American Identities & Pirate Futurisms in Contemporary Art. Sightlines. California College of the Arts. pg. 239-57. [.pdf link]
An excerpt from a longer work outlining a critical framework I call pirate futurism: a term describing the creative strategy used by Asian American artists who create new speculative fictions and possibilities through bootlegged pop culture visuals, transmuted bits of film, or web borne pixilated images to exploit the limitations of mediated representations, put them to productive use, and position them within the larger context of global capitalist exchange. Pirate futurism simultaneously offers an oceanic mobility that undermines gross essentialisms and a contextualizing map of intersecting identities and concurrent political critiques.
2024. Reflections. SFSU Fine Arts Gallery.
A podcast mini-series featuring conversations with each of the artists in the exhibition, “Reflecting on Ruth Asawa & the Garden of Remembrance,” which was on view at the San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery from February 24th to April 6, 2024. Each episode highlighted the work of one of the exhibiting artists. Commissioned by the SFSU Fine Arts Gallery.
episode 1: Tina Kashiwagi
episode 2: Mark Baugh-Sasaki
episode 3: Lisa Solomon
episode 4: TT Takemoto
episode 5: Paul Kitagaki, Jr
2017-2019. (un)making. Art Practical.
(un)making was an interview-based podcast series produced through Art Practical. Each episode featured conversations with artists, cultural workers, or arts administrators of color in which they discussed their work, how they got to where they are in their careers, and how they situate their practices in the world at large.
episode 1: Gaye Chan
episode 2: Gisela Insuaste
episode 3: Grace Rosario Perkins
episode 4: Ramekon O’Arwisters
episode 5: Jacqueline Francis & Kathy Zarur
episode 6: Mary Chou
episode 7: Postcommodity
episode 8: Nicole Marroquin
episode 9: Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
episode 10: Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik & Lee Ann S. Wang
episode 11: Hank Willis Thomas
episode 12: Steve Wong
episode 13: Jaime Cortez & Genevieve Quick (live at Montalvo)
episode 14: Maria Gaspar
episode 15: Pallavi Sharma
episode 16: Roberto Bedoya
episode 17: Gabby Miller
episode 18: Brett Cook
episode 19: Kimberly Drew
episode 20: Kim Anno
episode 21: Edra Soto
episode 22: Wei Leng Tay & Michelle Wong
episode 23: Taraneh Hemami
episode 24: Trisha Lagaso Goldberg
episode 25: Vero Majano
episode 26: Tyese Wortham
episode 27: Sarah Biscarra Dilley
episode 28: Chinatown Art Brigade
episode 29: Imani Jacqueline Brown
episode 30: Edgar Arceneaux
episode 31: Erick Arguello, Rachel Lastimosa, & Tommy Wong (live)
episode 32: Barnali Ghosh & Anirvan Chatterjee
episode 33: Jesus Barraza
episode 34: Dinh Q. Lê
episode 35: Nancy Hom
episode 36: Katie Dorame
episode 37: Carolina Caycedo
episode 38: Leland Miyano
episode 39: Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt
episode 40: Maya Stovall