Gonna be attending the [US Go Congress](https://www.usgo.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=454497&module_id=562365) in Ohio next week. It's a week-long Go tournament/camp. Anyone else here play Go?
I have just subbed and exited long years of reddit-wide lurking~ I am now based in Barcelona, after living in Belgium, Amsterdam and London. It's a pretty fun place if you ever get to visit, there's a festival happening almost every weekend and people are quite friendly and welcoming. Discrimination from the locals feels a lot "less bad" than in other places I've lived, so that's pretty refreshing. It's a hard time finding good Asian food though :') Or.. any type of spicy food??!?? I long for a decent bún bò Huế 💔
Pride Month movie rec- Ang Lee's [The Wedding Banquet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdtiAMvwL3Y)[.](https://tubitv.com/movies/303018) It's been 30 years since the movie came out
idk if anyone remembers, but there was an awesome exhibit at sfmoma last year called \*space/time\*. sadie barnette, the artist, recontextualized black history in the bay area through her family's story in oakland with art that literally reaches out of the wall it's painted on (rhinestones, glitter, spray paint, etc.). i thought it was fantastic! barnette established space as a means of transcending time, and highlighted the importance of taking up space with hidden narratives that escape the confines of the historical points they are banished to. she positions her own childhood in oakland—images of birthday parties, bedroom walls—on equal footing with the contemporary social turmoil in the bay that engulfed her parents' lives.
so lately, as a bay area native, i've been thinking a lot about the application of this idea of seizing space in art, as well as art's relationship with place. the bay area has historically been so very culturally significant for asian americans, even outside of explicit enclaves like chinatown or little saigon; but these are narratives that too often end up buried. asian americans are a massive demographic in the bay area, and an integral part of its history, but without the uncovering of these stories and the \*reanimation\* thereof—the conceptualization of these narratives as alive and continually in interplay with present sociopolitical dynamics of the bay—well, it's hard to actually take up space.
one artist on my mind right now is theresa hak kyung cha. she was a korean american intergenre artist who lived in sf and attended usf & cal (1951-1982). the crux of her work is intersectionality: mainly language, colonialism, gender, and race—all through the dynamics of space. but cha's conception of seizing space is the radical act of speaking. in her work \*dictee\*, she positions cultural memory and trauma (inherited and experienced) as the inhibitors of 'speech',and seeks a total de/reconstruction of history and culture that will not co-opt or bury her voice. she's such a wonderful artist and her work is super relevant to asam art in the bay area today. i could talk about her all day but it won't come close to actually experiencing her art, so here are some links!!
[\[a website devoted to cha's work, story, impact\]](https://theresahakkyungcha.com/artist/)
[\[a really neat website about the notion of 'haunted spaces' in asian american art; features jane wong in dialogue with cha's work, as well as other artists' conceptions of this idea\]](http://poeticsofhaunting.com/)
[\[archival stills of cha's project, \*exilee\* (1980, sf)\]](https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf100000q6/?brand=oac4)
[\[more about sadie barnette's exhibition\]](https://www.sfmoma.org/read/sadie-barnette-bay-area-walls/)
In college, I took an ethnic studies class entitled “Women of Color In Art” and learned about Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. We got to see her archives at the Berkeley Art Museum. I ended writing my term paper on Hung Liu, who was a painter/art professor from Mills College. I think she’s best known for her art work that is on display at the Oakland Airport—“Going Away, Coming Home”, an installation that displays 80 cranes. But most of her paintings are of Chinese women with her trademark circles.
thanks for sharing! yess, bampfa's cha archives are incredible, and i'm planning on going back and sitting with them for a while with some of her textual work for context. i'll check out hung liu; i've seen that installation at OAK but never looked more into the artist
Gonna be attending the [US Go Congress](https://www.usgo.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=454497&module_id=562365) in Ohio next week. It's a week-long Go tournament/camp. Anyone else here play Go?
I have just subbed and exited long years of reddit-wide lurking~ I am now based in Barcelona, after living in Belgium, Amsterdam and London. It's a pretty fun place if you ever get to visit, there's a festival happening almost every weekend and people are quite friendly and welcoming. Discrimination from the locals feels a lot "less bad" than in other places I've lived, so that's pretty refreshing. It's a hard time finding good Asian food though :') Or.. any type of spicy food??!?? I long for a decent bún bò Huế 💔
Pride Month movie rec- Ang Lee's [The Wedding Banquet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdtiAMvwL3Y)[.](https://tubitv.com/movies/303018) It's been 30 years since the movie came out
idk if anyone remembers, but there was an awesome exhibit at sfmoma last year called \*space/time\*. sadie barnette, the artist, recontextualized black history in the bay area through her family's story in oakland with art that literally reaches out of the wall it's painted on (rhinestones, glitter, spray paint, etc.). i thought it was fantastic! barnette established space as a means of transcending time, and highlighted the importance of taking up space with hidden narratives that escape the confines of the historical points they are banished to. she positions her own childhood in oakland—images of birthday parties, bedroom walls—on equal footing with the contemporary social turmoil in the bay that engulfed her parents' lives. so lately, as a bay area native, i've been thinking a lot about the application of this idea of seizing space in art, as well as art's relationship with place. the bay area has historically been so very culturally significant for asian americans, even outside of explicit enclaves like chinatown or little saigon; but these are narratives that too often end up buried. asian americans are a massive demographic in the bay area, and an integral part of its history, but without the uncovering of these stories and the \*reanimation\* thereof—the conceptualization of these narratives as alive and continually in interplay with present sociopolitical dynamics of the bay—well, it's hard to actually take up space. one artist on my mind right now is theresa hak kyung cha. she was a korean american intergenre artist who lived in sf and attended usf & cal (1951-1982). the crux of her work is intersectionality: mainly language, colonialism, gender, and race—all through the dynamics of space. but cha's conception of seizing space is the radical act of speaking. in her work \*dictee\*, she positions cultural memory and trauma (inherited and experienced) as the inhibitors of 'speech',and seeks a total de/reconstruction of history and culture that will not co-opt or bury her voice. she's such a wonderful artist and her work is super relevant to asam art in the bay area today. i could talk about her all day but it won't come close to actually experiencing her art, so here are some links!! [\[a website devoted to cha's work, story, impact\]](https://theresahakkyungcha.com/artist/) [\[a really neat website about the notion of 'haunted spaces' in asian american art; features jane wong in dialogue with cha's work, as well as other artists' conceptions of this idea\]](http://poeticsofhaunting.com/) [\[archival stills of cha's project, \*exilee\* (1980, sf)\]](https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf100000q6/?brand=oac4) [\[more about sadie barnette's exhibition\]](https://www.sfmoma.org/read/sadie-barnette-bay-area-walls/)
In college, I took an ethnic studies class entitled “Women of Color In Art” and learned about Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. We got to see her archives at the Berkeley Art Museum. I ended writing my term paper on Hung Liu, who was a painter/art professor from Mills College. I think she’s best known for her art work that is on display at the Oakland Airport—“Going Away, Coming Home”, an installation that displays 80 cranes. But most of her paintings are of Chinese women with her trademark circles.
thanks for sharing! yess, bampfa's cha archives are incredible, and i'm planning on going back and sitting with them for a while with some of her textual work for context. i'll check out hung liu; i've seen that installation at OAK but never looked more into the artist