September 8 November 18. 2022 Gallery hours, Monday Saturday 11am 4pm
VOICE A WILD DREAM: MOMENTS IN ASIAN AMERICAN ART AND
ACTIVISM,1968-2022 highlights collectives of ASIAN AMERICAN ARTISTS
AND ACTIVISTS AND THEIR WORK TOWARD SOCIAL CHANGE OVER THE PAST SIX
DECADES. Sharpened by a recent interest among artists in remaking
systems in ways that harken back to the revolutionary impulses of the
late 1960s, many exhibitions and publications trace the lineages of
feminist, queer, black, and Chicanx arts and ACTIVISM; however, the
story intertwining strands of art, ACTIVISM, and community aid is
significantly less visible within the ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY. VOICE
A WILD DREAM TRACES CONNECTIONSBOTH LITERAL AND PHILOSOPHICALBETWEEN
ASIAN AMERICAN COLLECTIVES THAT INTERSECTED ART AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
IN PAST DECADES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO CURRENT ART AND MUTUAL AID
COLLECTIVES TODAY. By centering artists and their work in a
conversation about community care, the exhibition illuminates the
power of the artistic act to catalyze belonging, participation, and,
most crucially, intersectional connection. The exhibition borrows its
title from traci kato-kiriyamas poem Letters to Taz on meeting (after
Taz Ahmeds If Our Grandparents Could Meet), included in their recent
publication Navigating With(out) Instruments. kato-kiriyama imagines a
shared moment between the two poet activists grandparents and the
solidarity that they might share in their hope for the future.
Featuring historical, archival and contemporary works, the exhibition
considers an expansive notion of artists roles in cultural work,
incorporating zine culture, grassroots organizing, non-profit art
spaces, and self-organized networks as equally important participants
in an effort to realign our social relations. Focusing on Los Angeles
and New York and the flow of people and ideas between them, the
exhibition takes a wide view of cultural production to include groups
grounded in ASIAN AMERICAN DEFINED COMMUNITIES. Exhibiting collectives
include: Auntie Sewing Squad, Basement Workshop, Chinatown Art
Brigade, Giant Robot, GIDRA, Godzilla, the Linda Lindas, Stop
DiscriminAsian, and The W.O.W. Project. The exhibition is curated by
Kris Kuramitsu, Fall 2022 Professor of the Practice at Occidental
College and Senior Curator at Large of the Mistake Room. September 26,
6 p.m. Performance presentation by Kristina Wong September 27, 5 p.m.
Filmmaker Nanfu Wangs keynote (simulcast) from the International
Documentary Conference followed by a screening of Hooligan Sparrow
October 22, 10 a.m. Curatorial Walkthrough with Kris Kuramitsu
November 17, 6 p.m. An evening with GYOPO and Stop DiscriminAsian
Learn more at:
https://oxyarts.oxy.edu/exhibitions/voice-wild-dream-moments-asian-american-art-and-activism-1968-2022
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