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.
April Reading Group: Carefully Tending Traditions — a Conversation with Rupy C. Tut and Jason Wyman
Who are your ancestors and what practices of theirs do you carry with you today?
In April, join Rupy C. Tut and Jason Wyman for a conversation on care, creative collaboration, and navigating tradition. Drawing on selected readings, works of art, and their own work and practices, the discussion will address how we might work collectively to build and imagine new worlds. As Arahmaiani writes in her “Manifesto of the Sceptics”: “Our art must not be separated from life and become mere decoration. Art must be able to encourage a new awareness of humanity and a new social consciousness.”
Readings
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Rupy C. Tut, “Search and Rescue,” a personal essay about Rupy C. Tut’s first post-pandemic solo show at Jessica Silverman Gallery in April of 2022.
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Larry Mitchell and Ned Astra, The F*****s & Their Friends Between Revolutions, Astra (book pp. 47–53 / PDF pp. 56–61).
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Arahmaiani, “Manifesto of the Sceptics,” Yogyakarta, Indonesia, July, 2009.
ABOUT THE HOSTS
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Rupy C. Tut (b. 1985, Chandigarh, India) studied calligraphy and Traditional Indian painting at the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts, London in 2016. She previously received a BS from UCLA and MPH from Loma Linda University, CA. She has enjoyed solo exhibitions at venues including ICA, San Francisco; Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara; and Peel Art Gallery and Museum Archives, Ontario. Tut’s work is in the permanent collection of Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; the deYoung, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; and Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis. She lives and works in Oakland, CA and is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco.
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Jason Michael Wyman (E / he / they), also known as Queerly Complex, was born on Turtle Island in the Land of 10,000 Lakes and has settled in Yelamu, home of the Raymatush Ohlone people, also called San Francisco. Jason is white; he is male (presenting); E, too, are queer; they, too, are anti-binary. Jason’s work has shown in homes, in public transit plazas, in secret gardens, in parks, along the water’s edge, on streets and alleys, and in institutions. They were also the editor and designer for Rupy C. Tut’s 2020–2022 art catalog.
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Rupy C. Tut and Jason Wyman co-founded the Immigrant Artist Network in 2021, which convenes immigrant artists and their comrades across all borders and disciplines to co-create peer-based creative, personal, and professional development, aid, and support.
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.
