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.

10/16 Into Conversation: Temporality, Power and the Interview
Ian Carstens

Conversation has value and the documentation of it can be considered art. As a practicing filmmaker I am interested in how the interview expresses its own politics and power dynamics, and how these can be co-opted or reframed. How does applying objecthood to the interview and ideas of co-creation comment on interrelatedness and various temporalities? Wrapped up with the art object-ness of the interview are various agendas, processes and tools connected to Imperialist projects of capture, control and erasure. Perhaps the practice of interviewing can be one of mutualism, empathy and with an embrace of what writer Jessica Lanay calls “ethically not knowing?” The inclusion of art history, critical theory, epistemological critique and firsthand knowledge inform and complicate this art object. How can an interview be a space for generative critique and how does it center its own and its participant’s “here-ness”? What critiques exist in the structures built around documented content (the archive, its UX, recycling/sampling) and what might they tell us about critical possibilities and future imaginings?

Ian Carstens is a writer, filmmaker and curator from the Mississippi River Valley. His work explores temporality, non-human aliveness, multiplicity, as well as critiques of the archive, lens-based art forms and cultural institutions. Carstens is the lead curator/filmmaker of Glass Breakfast, an ongoing archival project. His video works have screened at various film festivals as well as on public television. He is an Associate Editor of Ruckus Art Journal and his arts writing has been published with Burnaway, Sugarcane, and Sixty Inches From Center.

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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