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Fabienne Lasserre: Eye Contact
(R)education: Exhibiting the Asian American Experience
The hope is for the work to spark conversations that would change perceptions of Asian Americans for the better, as well as to hold white supremacist ideals to account.
Kenneth Tam: The Silence We Hold Between Our Bodies
Re’al Christian speaks with Kenneth Tam about his recent work Silent Spikes; the entwined mythologies of American Cowboys with Chinese laborers on the Transcontinental Railroad; and the intimacy—and intensity—of male coming-of-age rituals.
2021 Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction
Jes Fan: Infectious Materials, Molecular Memories
Firelei Báez: The Poetics of Opacity
Cosmo Whyte and Firelei Báez discuss practices of coding, withholding, and “mixing the honey with the sting” in Báez’s symbolically layered works.
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
Inaudibility: Krista Belle Stewart’s Sonic Repatriation of Knowledge
Krista Belle Stewart mines the power of strategic incomprehensibility to reclaim ownership through the mediation of access and refusal.
Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment
PEN15
PEN15 shouldn’t work—two 33-year-old women acting like 13-year-olds while surrounded by a cast of actual 13-year-olds—but good God, does it.