FUTURE 400, an initiative of the Netherlands Consulate General of New York, endeavors to honor 400 years of Dutch-New York history with honesty and integrity, creating space for others who share this common heritage to voice their feelings and experiences at this monumental moment. Partners from cultural to commercial fields, from the New York area to the Netherlands will come together to create new work and new opportunities to continue writing the next chapter of our shared story, a collective…
FUTURE 400.
ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION: OCEANIC PASTS AND CURRENTS
ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION: OCEANIC PASTS AND CURRENTS
Artists in Conversation
Saturday, June 25, 2022, 4:00 pm
In conjunction with A Thousand Secrets
During this 90-minute session, artists Beatrice Glow and Deborah Jack will reflect upon their creative process and inspirations, the role of oceanic thought and histories within their work, and how legacies of colonialism continue to shape our present reality. Facilitated by the curator of A Thousand Secrets, Mae A. Miller, they will explore the radical possibilities of learning across oceans, genres, and storytelling traditions.
Beatrice Glow is an interdisciplinary and multisensory artist working in service of public history and just futures. Through diasporic and decolonial lens, she interrogates the visual languages of luxury and power derived through the exploitation of botanical life. Her solo exhibitions include Once the Smoke Clears, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2022, Forts and Flowers, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taiwan, 2019, and Aromérica Parfumeur, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile, 2016. Her work has been supported by Yale-NUS College, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, and the Fulbright Scholar Program.
Deborah Jack is a St. Maarten and Jersey City based multi-disciplinary artist who works in video/sound installation, photography, painting and text. Her work engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of histories, cultural memory, ecology, and climate change, while negotiating a global present. She has exhibited at Perez Art Museum of Miami, Museum of Latin American Art in Los Angeles, SITE Santa Fe, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, with reviews in Hyperallergic, Frieze, Artsy and the New York Times. In Fall 2021 Deborah Jack: 20 Years was presented at Pen + Brush in New York City.
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Yale-NUS College Artist-in-Residence
Last year, I spent almost 6 months in Singapore as the Yale-NUS College Artist-in-Residence. This was an amazing portal that opened up during the pandemic wherein I got to travel, meet new friends, work with students in person, make new works (many now being show at Baltimore Museum of Art) an enormous workspace at Gillman Barracks as part of the NTU CCA artist residency program and of course, eat delicious Singaporean food. The very brilliant Prof. Tom White coordinated my residency. Luckily, he is also an acclaimed photographer and journalist, so the result is that he documented various stages of my journey with his interdisciplinary know-how. It was also joyful to watch this video and see the wise curator Siddharta Perez and two brilliant students, Aarti Pillai and Ishmam Ahmed, share their practice as well.
An Archipelagic AIR: Episode 3, Yale-NUS College Artist-in-Residence Podcast
“Going along this continued conversation that we have been having about archipelagic thinking, it dovetails well with diasporic thinking, relational thinking, empathetic thinking and that really helped me look at the map of Austronesia in a different layered way.”
Aromatic Realities, Yale-NUS Artist-in-Residence Public Lecture →
Artist Talk "Searching for Inclusive Futures in the Capitalocene" at Apexart as part of Meteorological Mobilities
Link: https://apexart.org/tsionkilecture.php
Empire of Smoke: the Legacy of Tobacco
Video documentation of "Empire of Smoke: The Legacy of Tobacco" that took place at James B. Duke House New York University Institute of Fine Arts on May 11.
Speakers: Kathleen Robin Joyce, Kristen Gaylord, George Stonefish, Dr. Gunja Sengupta and Beatrice Glow.
Honolulu Biennial Artist Interview →
After sleepless nights of installing Rhunhattan Tearoom at the Honolulu Biennial, I participated in this interview...I hope it's coherent!
Asian Contemporary Art Week 2014
Spanish Lesson on How to Speak Chino
I delve into the historical realities of Asian migration to Peru by dissecting the folk etymology of “chino.” There is a plethora of ways to use the word “chino” (Chinese) in colloquial Spanish that range from orange juice, marijuana, curly blondes, children, a gaucho’s wife, a person with indigenous physical characteristics, fifty cents to several Peruvian ex-presidents.