Into View: Monthly Reading Group
Join local artists and authors for participatory and inclusive discussions in this monthly reading group examining the themes and ideas behind 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.
May Reading Group: (Dis)Comfort and Belonging
Join Bay Area-based artist TT Takemoto, whose 2018 experimental film “On The Line” is featured in Into View: New Voices New Stories, for a conversation examining “queer exhaustion,” which characterizes the artist’s encounters with Orientalism and other dominant narratives in the museum and art world, as well as a consideration of artworks in the exhibition that re-envision traditional mythologies through a queer lens. This reading group session will be hosted by Asian Art Museum Project Manager Jenna Erwin.
Readings:
- TT Takemoto, “Queer Exhaustion, Speculation, Despair,” Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value, ed. C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp (MIT Press, 2020), pp. 105–114.
- Alpesh Kantilal Patel, “The Art of Queering Asian Mythology,” The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History, ed. Chiang et al. (Charles Scribner’s Son, 2019): pp. 127–134.
- TT Takemoto, “Distance, Intimacy, and Oddity in the Archives,” interview by Moises De La Cruz, Art, Hope, Action: 203–204.
ABOUT THE HOSTS
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TT Takemoto (b. US, 1967) is a queer Japanese American artist and scholar exploring Asian American history, sexuality, and identity. Takemoto has exhibited at the de Young Museum, Chinese Culture Center SF, Oakland Museum of California, Peabody Essex Museum, SOMArts, SFMOMA, and more. They have received grants and awards from Art Matters, ArtPlace, Fleishhacker Foundation, Lucas Artists Program, and San Francisco Arts Commission. Takemoto served on the board of the Queer Cultural Center, where they co-founded Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts. Takemoto is Dean of Humanities and Sciences at California College of the Arts. They live and work in the Bay Area.
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Jenna Erwin is Project Manager at the Asian Art Museum. Selected projects include Murakami: Monsterized, The Heart of Zen, RAD (Asian Art Museum Research and Development), and Phoenix Kingdoms: The Last Splendor of China’s Bronze Age. Her writings have been included in the CalArts Special Collections, Tate Archive, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), and University Arts London Special Collections.
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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.
Top image: Installation view of Into View: New Voices, New Stories. Photograph © Asian Art Museum.
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.
