BECAUSE I COME FROM YOU

This project began as a journal entry to the artist’s younger self: “I just want to give you a hug. I want to see you smile and laugh. But that’s what I see in the mirror, isn’t it? I just don’t recognize it. You are me? I am you. I’m different, of course. I’m older. ‘Soiled’ by the world, as some would say. But I have you in me. I can be who I want to be because I come from you.”

Vietnam and Diasporic Aesthetics: Two Meditations. Dr. Howie Tam & Dr. Catherine H. Nguyen

Media Art Gallery 25 Avery Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The first event in the Writing, Literature & Publishing Scholar Series, this program is presented in conjunction with One Day We’ll Go Home and supported in part by the Harvard University Asia Center. Taking as a point of departure some works of Vietnamese American artistic production both in the gallery space and beyond, this two-part talk with...

Workshop: Kameelah Janan Rasheed on Wayward Sentences (writing constraints and algorithmic scores)

Workshop: Kameelah Janan Rasheed on Wayward Sentences (writing constraints and algorithmic scores)January 19, 2024 @1:30PM Eastern on Zoom (RSVP required) Rasheed considers learning "as a process of radical slowing down/de-acceleration in the midst of the efficiency and optimization frenzy; an engagement with curiosity, serendipity, improvisation, and tangents; learning as a persistent reminder of the shifting ecologies...

If, Then: Technology and Poetics,

On line, ZOOM

Learn from visual artist Kameelah J. Rasheed in this satellite workshop Join us for Kameelah Janan Rasheed's satellite workshop (conducted over zoom), in partnership with John Hopkins University. In If, Then: Technology and Poetics, Kameelah explores the relationship between writing constraints and algorithmic scores (dubbed wayward sentences). This workshop will be conducted over zoom. You...

Artist Reception Kameelah Janan Rasheed

Join us to celebrate the brand new exhibition of “Kameelah Janan Rasheed: all velvet sentences as manifesto, Like a lesson against smooth language or an invitation to be feral hypertext,” a multimedia solo exhibition featuring visual artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed (American, born 1985) on view in the Media Art Gallery at 25 Avery Street from...