Category / Virtuality
In Conversation: Jaycee Tu and Jasmine Gui
Recently, exhibition curator Jaycee Tu and I decided to host our curator conversation on the wonderful medium of FB messenger, which is our most oft-used method of communication. This decision is partially tongue-in-cheek, as it allowed us to use more casual language and also exhibit the very common problems of Messenger conversation such as typos, but also…
Virtual(ity) - Full Curatorial Statement
“The machine is us, our processes, an aspect of our embodiment. We can be responsible for machines; they do not dominate or threaten us. We are responsible for boundaries; we are they.” - Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto (1985). What we put out into the internet, we put out into the world. Each post, each…
Veena (2017)
You can access the video without captions here. Artist Statement: Veena (2016) is an installation in Saris are hung from the ceiling cascading onto the floor. Saris are a traditional form of dress in South Asia and consists of a single silken fabric that is five to nine yards long, and draped over a woman’s…
fromanothertotheother.com (2011-ongoing)
Artist Statement: From an other to the other (fromanothertotheother.com) is a single-page web installation that cumulates a personal history through the instant lens of photography and writing. It consists of fabled theories, far-fetched fallacies, and waves of the primitive impulses behind which I intellectualize as the Performance of Sensational Experience. The webpage built on…
Resist/Co-exist (2018)
This artistic collaboration was live streamed on Project 40 Collective’s FB page tonight, July 17th at approximately 7 PM (EST). The live performance was filmed at 187 Augusta. Artist Statement: Resist/Co-exist tells the story of two dancers from different cultures who live in the same place they’ve adopted as their new home. One dancer embodies…