In conjunction with the After Hope: Videos of Resistance program at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, we held a series of bi-monthly virtual meetings July - November 2020. Imagined as an international working group, these sessions were imagined as an informal space to meet, share ideas, learn about each other’s work, and have meaningful and engaged dialogue around art and hope at a time of dire need for social reconciliation and radical new visions. Each weekly meeting focused on the work and practice of 5-10 artists as catalysts and guides for conversation.
Facilitated by Collective Çukurcuma (Naz Cuguoğlu, Mine Kaplangı,Hakki Serhat Cacekli) and Padma Dorje Maitland.
A horizontal learning space for deep-listening, a purposefully uncomfortable cocoon, a possibility, an intimate glitch. In this reading group, we will discuss the dialectic qualities of hope and fear, while approaching “after hope” as an alternative methodology for our times.
