ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION

Hosted by the Museum of African Diaspora and Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Join us for an evening conversation between artists across Asian and African diasporas in conjunction with After Hope: Videos of Resistance, at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Featured artists from the exhibition, Tiffany Chung and Connie Zheng, and artists previously exhibited through MoAD’s Emerging Artists Program, Simone Bailey and Cheryl Derricotte, will discuss their practices in relation to themes of hope, resistance, and transnational futurity. The evening’s discussion will be moderated by Padma Dorje Maitland, Assistant Professor at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and co-curator of After Hope: Videos of Resistance.

To view a recording of Artists in Conversation, please see below:

Past: December 10, 2020, 5:30 pm

 Simone Bailey is an artist who utilizes video, performance, sculpture, and site specific installations in her artistic practice. Her practice is an interrogation of disembodied poetics and the impulse to grasp the intangible. Her work focuses on perception, process, ephemerality, desire, hybridity, violence, and the impossible, all while maintaining an intimate proximity to blackness.

Cheryl Derricotte is a visual artist and her favorite mediums are glass and paper. Originally from Washington, DC, she lives and makes art in San Francisco, CA. She has an extensive background in the arts and community development. Cheryl is an active thought leader in the arts. She serves as the Secretary, (aka The Minister of Information), for Three Point Nine Art Collective, a group fo Black artists who live and make art in San Francisco. She is also the Chief Mindfulness Officer of Crux, a nationwide cooperative of Black Artists working at the intersection of art and technology through immersive storytelling (VR).

Connie Zheng is a Chinese-born artist, writer and filmmaker currently based out of Oakland, CA. Her work examines diverse articulations of hope amidst ongoing ecological catastrophe, possibilities for expanding the language of climate apocalypse, and the racialization of contamination narratives, as told through visual and text-based forms. A 2019-2020 Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts, she has also been awarded fellowships and residencies from Ragdale, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and ACRE, and was recently a Collection Fellow at KADIST. She will be publishing a chapter in the upcoming Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (forthcoming Spring 2021) and has exhibited and screened her work in the Netherlands and throughout the US. She received B.A.s in Economics in English and Economics from Brown University, her MFA from the University of California — Berkeley, and is currently a PhD student at the University of California — Santa Cruz.

Tiffany Chung is internationally noted for her research-based multi-media installations and meticulously detailed cartographic works that examine conflict, migration, urban transformation and environmental impact in relation to the history of specific places. Chung’s work remaps historical and collective memories of traumatized topographies, creates interventions into the spatial and political narratives produced through statecraft, and unveils the connection between imperialist ideologies and visions of modernity. Chung was awarded the Sharjah Biennial Artist Prize (2013) and named Jane Lombard Fellow for Art & Social Justice at the Vera List Center, New School (2018-2020). Selected museum exhibitions: Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue, Smithsonian American Art Museum, D.C. (2019); Thu Thiem: an archaeological project for future remembrance, Lumar Cité, Lisbon (2019); Where We Now Stand–In Order to Map the Future, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Japan, 2019); Artists Reflect: Contemporary Views on the American War, Minneapolis Institute of Art (2019); and New Cartographies, Asia Society, Houston (2018).

Padma Dorje Maitland is Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and co-curator of After Hope, at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.