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Chen's [REMOTE]

JUNE

6/3:
Maia Ruth Lee / Guadalupe Rosales
Community Address: At the Intersection of Representation and Access
A conversation about making reparative and discursive space for others and the importance (and tensions) of cultural representation.
Video

6/10:
Tiffany Sia
Never Rest/Unrest
Screening and discussion on the imaging the real material surround of political protest in Hong Kong, followed by a discussion on the temporal, counter-spectacular, and embodied experiences of our current global uprisings.
Video

6/17:
Miko Revereza
Stateless Cinema
A discussion on the entanglement of moving image, migration, and the fugitive agency of ‘stateless' cinema in the ruins of psychological and geographical chasms.
Video

JULY

7/1:
E.T. Chong
Asian Dog: The 한 politics of racial position
This discussion focuses on interrogating dominant ideas of "position" in terms of sexuality, race, and power, including the history of Asian subjects and bodies in relation to White supremacy.
Video

7/8:
SITU Research w. Bora Erden
Counter-narrative / Counter-Surveillance: Documenting the repression of public assembly
A screening and conversation focusing on liberatory applications of forensic spatial technology to counter the repression of public assembly.
Video

7/15:
Suneil Sanzgiri
Conditions of Unknowing
A screening and conversation on the relationship between diasporic agency and filmmaking as an unenclosed practice of solidarity and revolt.
Video

7/29:
A.L. Steiner in conversation w. Noura Wedell
Feminism or Death
A reading and discussion about the legacy of Françoise d’Eaubonne’s activist work and original ecofeminist writing as part of an inquiry into its current-day viability as a call to action, and a recourse to mutation.
Video

AUGUST

8/12:
Alice Sparkly Kat / Ying Liu
Between Sky and Belief: Cosmological Uprisings
Taking a critical approach to astrology, divination and other frameworks that decode futurity, the conversation dissects the historical and contemporary applications of astrology to narrate our current sociopolitical reality and to fathom our universe.
Video

8/19:
Renée Green
Americas : Veritas
This program will highlight Renée Green’s two recent short films, Americas : Veritas (2018), and Commemorative Toile: Mise-en-scène (2020). Through the social / material history of architecture and textile, these films will serve as a springboard from which to reflect on Green’s ongoing practice and thinking in yet another summer in America.
Video

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Better Homes & Gardens
Bunny Jr. Tapes, Byron Kim, Mama Yoshi, Pear Ware, Perfume Area, Syro, Tiffany Sia, Matthew So, VeniceW, Alston Watson, Anicka Yi, Bettina Yung, Lu Zhang
August 17 - September 21

Press Release

Lu Zhang, Byron Kim, Alston Watson

Lu Zhang

VeniceW

Perfume Area

Anicka Yi

Matthew So

Bunny Jr. Tapes, Matthew So, Perfume Area, Alston Watson

Bettina Yung

Mama Yoshi

Pear Ware

Tiffany Sia

Syro

Byron Kim

A Fickle Aggregate
Khavn de la Cruz, Diana Sofia Lozano, Diane Severin Nguyen, Carlos Reyes and Timur Si-Qin
July 6 - August 10

Press Release

Khavn de la Cruz, Diane Severin Nguyen, Timur Si-Qin, Diana Sofia Lozano

Diana Sofia Lozano

Diane Severin Nguyen, Timur Si-Qin, Diana Sofia Lozano

Carlos Reyes, Timur Si-Qin

Khavn de la Cruz

Diane Severin Nguyen, Timur Si-Qin

Better Homes and Gardens
August 17 - September 21

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Younger Than Elmo
Sunny Donnelly, Lee Donnelly, Zazie Lampert, Andre Roso, Pedro Roso, Nima Lee Sutherland, Sena Tajima Chen, August Tsai, Qadune Wysocan
October 27, 2018

Press Release

Soft Shadows
ektor garcia, Miko Revereza and Kamaria Shepherd
September 8 - October 13

Press Release

Gallery Hours
Sep 15: 1-5 pm
Sep 23: 1-4 pm
Sep 29: 1-4 pm
Oct 13: 1-4 pm

ektor garcia, Miko Revereza

Miko Revereza, ektor garcia

Kamaria Shepherd

ektor garcia

Kamaria Shepherd

Miko Revereza

Cooked Two Ways:
Ying Liu / Spencer Yeh
July 28 - September 2

Press Release

Events
Aug 18: Full screening of C. Spencer Yeh’s, SHOCKING ASIA, 12-7 pm
Aug 30: Evening and screening with Ying Liu, 7-9 pm

Spencer Yeh

Ying Liu

There Is Nothing To Divide Us If We Do Not Exist
Badlands Unlimited*, CFGNY, Gidra, Renée Green, Sara Knox Hunter, and Guadalupe Rosales
June 2 - July 26

Press Release

July 11: Reading / Sara Knox Hunter, Precious Okoyomon, Zoe Brezsny, Catherine Feliz., 7-9 pm

[* Chen's has disavowed association with Badlands Unlimited/Paul Chan since this exhibition]

Renée Green, CFGNY, Guadalupe Rosales