Pattern Recognition: A conversation with Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Chang Yuchen
Thursday, July 30, 5pm ET
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Please join us for short presentations from Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Chang Yuchen followed by a conversation between the artists. Taking Hito Steyerl’s text A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition as a starting point, Kameelah Janan Rasheed will discuss what it means to establish patterns that can be instrumentalized by surveillance states and the implications of intentionally breaking patterns. Chang Yuchen, referencing George Steiner’s After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation, will discuss a parallel concept but in language — the patterns inherent in the standardization of any given language, and personal or regional dialect as a means of breaking those patterns.
This event is free with a suggested donation to one of the following funds: The National Bail Out Collective, a Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers and activists that coordinates the Mama’s Day Bail Outs as well as provides fellowship and employment opportunities for those they bail out; and The Black School’s fundraiser for a 21st century schoolhouse to expand their Black radical art programming into a community center providing civic engagement activities for New Orleans' 7th Ward.
This event will be live-captioned. If you have additional access questions or needs for the event, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org (ideally with at least 48 hours before the event) and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985) is invested in the shifting ecosystems of Black epistemologies, and the agile relationships between the varied modes of reading, writing, archiving, editing, translating, publishing, reflecting upon, and arranging narratives about lived Black experiences. With interests in the generative qualities of incompleteness, leakage, dispersal, syncretism (spiritual and otherwise), and choreography (of movement, of learning, of affect), Rasheed works across an ecosystem of iterative and provisional projects. These projects include sprawling, architecturally-scaled Xerox-based collages; large-scale text banner installations; publications; digital archives; lecture-performances; library interventions; poems/poetic gestures; and other forms yet to be determined. Rasheed has exhibited at the 2017 Venice Biennale; Institute for Contemporary Art Philadelphia; Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine; Brooklyn Museum; Queens Museum, New York; New Museum, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Bronx Museum; Brooklyn Public Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, and The Kitchen, New York, among others. She is the author of two artist books, An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations (Endless Editions, 2019) and No New Theories (Printed Matter, 2020).
Chang Yuchen (b. 1989) is an artist based in New York. She works in an interdisciplinary manner — writing as weaving, drawing as translation, clothing as portable theater, and commerce as everyday revolution (see Use Value). By constantly entering and exiting each medium, she strolls against the category of things and the labor divisions among people. Yuchen has been an artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA (North Adams), Offshore (Sabah), Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Bananafish Books (Shanghai) and Textile Arts Center (Brooklyn). She has shown and performed her works at UCCA Dune, Taikwun Contemporary, Abrons Art Center, Para Site, Salt Projects, and Assembly Room, among others.