Into View: Monthly Reading Group
Intimate gallery conversations with local artists and authors around selected readings and works featured in Into View: New Voices, New Stories.
Ticket includes General Admission (Thursdays after 5 PM are half off). Space is limited.
Curious about the ideas, themes, and stories behind the artworks of Into View: New Voices, New Stories? Join us for friendly conversations in Hambrecht Gallery, as the exhibition space is transformed into a participatory and inclusive venue for dialogue and exchange. Each monthly session focuses on selected readings and offers a chance to meet local artists and authors for an intimate discussion of art, our lives, and the changing world. Dive into issues of community and belonging, language and liberation, queer aesthetics, the politics of care, issues of representation, and the need for joy.
February Reading Group: Introducing Speculative Fabulation
Hosted by Asian Art Museum curators Naz Cuguoglu and Padma Dorje Maitland, February’s reading group kicks off the series with an introductory discussion of Donna Haraway’s concept of “speculative fabulation,” a mode of inventive storytelling that serves as the common thread linking the diverse artworks of Into View: New Voices, New Stories.
Readings (texts available online are linked below):
- Donna J. Haraway, “SF: Science Fiction, Speculative Fabulation, String Figures, So Far,” Pilgrim Award Acceptance Comments, July 7, 2011
- Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts,” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 12, no. 2 (2008): 1-14
- Naz Cuguoglu, Mine Kaplangi, and Haki Serhat Cacekli, “How to Start a Reading Group” from “Where Do We Go From Here? Reflections on the After Hope Reading Group,” Art, Hope, Action, Archive Books, 2024
ABOUT THE HOSTS
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Naz Cuguoglu is the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Programs at the Asian Art Museum. Originally from Istanbul, she has curated exhibitions and programs internationally at documenta fifteen, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the Walters Art Museum, and the 15th Istanbul Biennial, and locally at the Wattis Institute, Berkeley Art Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Slash. Cuguoglu previously held positions at KADIST, the de Young Museum, and SFMOMA. Her writing has been featured in SFMOMA Open Space, Art Asia Pacific, Hyperallergic, and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art.
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Padma Dorje Maitland is the Malavalli Family Foundation Associate Curator, Art of the Indian Subcontinent.
Top image: On the Line (still), 2018, by TT Takemoto (b. United States, 1967). Single-channel digital video with sound; hand-processed 8mm/16mm film, paint, and found footage. Asian Art Museum, Museum purchase, Frederick S. Whitman Trust Acquisition Fund, 2021.33. Photograph © Asian Art Museum.
Photo of Naz Cuguoglu by Pamela Gentile.
Into View: New Voices, New Stories is organized by the Asian Art Museum.
Sustained support generously provided by the Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Endowment Fund for Exhibitions and the Kao/Williams Contemporary Art Exhibitions Fund.
