Tanda Fall 2023

Join us every Monday evenings starting October 2nd for conversations and language work with the Fall 2023 cohort.

Session Details
Dates:Mondays, 10/02 – 11/06
Times: 6:30-8:30pm CT / 7:30-9:30pm ET
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88524385169
Meeting ID: 885 2438 5169

Closed Captions Available
Sessions are recorded only for the cohort’s reference and are not posted online.

10/30 Consider a Disappearance
Ruby Que

I’ve been drawn to the artist Bas Jan Ader, who disappeared at sea while completing his project “In Search of the Miraculous.” I obsessively watched and rewatched his video works, which often involved him leaving the frame, becoming hidden, disappearing. In an article for the Brooklyn Rail, his wife wrote, “I’ve never totally given up hoping that he will one day come back.” This hit me. I’m thinking about the histories and reverberations of a disappearance: the longing, searching, never finding, and sitting with. I’m thinking about figures such as Ader, Connie Converse, and Amelia Earhart, but also our obsession with them, more precisely, finding them. I’m thinking about the people that have been forced to disappear or into hiding in my distant home city, Hong Kong, and the possibility of disappearance or invisibility as resistance. I’m thinking about absences in my own practice: the missing person, the abandoned homeland, the obsolete medium, the traumatic memory. I’m thinking about myth making and ghosts. Who disappears? Who gets left behind? How does one disappear, and how does one grapple with the void?

Ruby Que is an installation artist and experimental filmmaker who occasionally writes, sculpts, and performs. In their work they open portals and create hauntings. Their films and installations have been shown at Kavi Gupta, Comfort Station, Chicago Artists Coalition (Chicago, IL), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY), and Du Vert à L’infini (Franche Comte, France) amongst others. They have been awarded residencies including Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), ACRE (Steuben, WI), Ellis-Beauregard Foundation (Rockland, ME), and are currently a HATCH resident at Chicago Artists Coalition. They grew up in Hong Kong in the lingering shadow of colonialism, and now lives and works on the unceded homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, or what is known as Chicago. They were named a 2023 Breakout Artist by Newcity Magazine. They hold a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Fall Tanda 2023 Syllabus
10/02 – Contextualizing the Mexican Milagros: Agents of Relational Anatomy, Alexis de Chaunac
10/16 – Into Conversation: Temporality, Power and the Interview, Ian Carstens
10/23 – Amor Eterno: Luchar por la Vida, Araceli Zuniga
10/30 – Consider a Disappearance, Ruby Que
11/06 – Bridging Diasporic Divides: Synthesizing Family Through Visual Art, Natasha Moustache

About the Tanda Program
Interweaving the formats of seminars, book clubs, research groups, and tandas, Tanda is a cohort program that aids individuals with their research and practice through self-directed and collective learning. It is a program providing time and space to gather, share, think and exchange conversations, resources, and knowledge on participants’ chosen topics. Tanda is a resource program by Chuquimarca.

About Chuquimarca
Chuquimarca is an art library project tasked to gather and share resources related to contemporary art and art histories. It gathers art books, programs a seasonal research group called Tanda, and a summer art writing residency called Muña (with online art publication Sixty Inches From Center).

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