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There are fifteen altogether, ranging from the funny to the heartbreaking, performed by actors and the authors themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Hofmeister drew a parallel between mental illness and cancer. “Back in the 1950s, cancer was really stigmatized. People did not want to talk about it. It was seen as kind of a shameful thing to receive a diagnosis of cancer. It’s frightening, of course, but there’s no reason to be ashamed of it,” Hofmeister said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The two enlisted the help of a wide-ranging advisory team, including \u003ca href=\"https://stanfordhealthcare.org/doctors/h/rona-hu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Rona Hu\u003c/a>, a Clinical Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences who launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13113401/stanford-psychiatrists-take-to-the-stage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a series of theatrical vignettes\u003c/a> designed to help Asian-Americans and Latinos confront a variety of parenting and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">She even wrote a monologue about her own experience that she’s performing in \u003cem>Manic Monologues\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Back when Hu was a college student, she didn’t understand her boyfriend had bipolar disorder. She was so freaked out by his behavior, she actually ghosted him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13856444 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS36913_IMG_6906-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='The cast of \"Manic Monologues,\" a theatre piece exploring 15 different perspectives on mental illness, not unlike \"Vagina Monologues\" did with female sexuality in the 1990s. (Back row, left to right): Audrey Mitchell, Corinne Bernhard, Zack Burton, Rebecca Jia, Grégoire Faucher, Steve Dobbs (Front row, left to right): Dr. Rona Hu, Chloe Harris, Elisa Hofmeister, Khuyen Le, Julie Lee' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS36913_IMG_6906-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS36913_IMG_6906-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS36913_IMG_6906-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS36913_IMG_6906-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS36913_IMG_6906-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS36913_IMG_6906-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of “Manic Monologues,” a theatre piece exploring 15 different perspectives on mental illness, not unlike “Vagina Monologues” did with female sexuality in the 1990s. (Back row, left to right): Audrey Mitchell, Corinne Bernhard, Zack Burton, Rebecca Jia, Grégoire Faucher, Steve Dobbs (Front row, left to right): Dr. Rona Hu, Chloe Harris, Elisa Hofmeister, Khuyen Le, Julie Lee \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Vianno Vo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Lucky for me, it was getting to be the end of the school year, and I had summer plans in another country, in Paris. These were plans I kept to myself. So when June rolled around, I just sort of got on the plane and disappeared,” Ru says in her monologue, baring that awkward chapter from her past in the hopes of reaching people in pain who are afraid to admit it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">[aside postID='arts_13113401,news_10524319,arts_13851676' label='Related Coverage']Today, Hu is Medical Director of the Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Unit at Stanford Hospital, where she treats lots of people with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hu knows what mental illness looks like today. But she encounters lots of people who don’t, who misinterpret their loved ones’ behavior, “almost like a moral weakness. Or something that people are doing on purpose,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Institute of Mental Health\u003c/a>, nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (46.6 million in 2017).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stigma is such a dangerous thing. It keeps people from getting help. It keeps people from even realizing that there’s an issue that there are solutions for,” Hu said. She’s enthusiastic about encouraging people to talk openly about mental illness, even if it means talking about the misgivings many people have about getting or staying emotionally involved with a person on a mental health roller coaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“If that young man had had just a few fewer episodes, or had hidden them from me better, than maybe I would have several very attractive children with him right now, and be tracking him down through his credit card receipts, and asking the highway patrol if they’d seen him. Things that I’ve had patients tell me about, and patients’ family members tell me about,” Hu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">All three \u003cem>Manic Monologues\u003c/em> shows at Stanford are sold out, but the hope is that the show travels the way \u003cem>Vagina Monologues\u003c/em> did, and has the same cultural impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would really like to help high school, college, and community theaters put on their own versions of the show,” Burton said, and to that effect, he added, “All proceeds of the show, as well as our \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/the-manic-monologues-destigmatizing-mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gofundme\u003c/a> campaign, will go toward seed funding for other theaters to perform the show.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Manic Monologues’ runs Thursday through Saturday, May 2–4, at Stanford’s Pigott Theater. \u003ca href=\"https://arts.stanford.edu/event/82535/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness; now, a new theater work urges us to start talking openly about it.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705026248,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":1033},"headData":{"title":"'Manic Monologues' Seeks to Disrupt the Stigma Around Mental Illness | KQED","description":"Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness; now, a new theater work urges us to start talking openly about it.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/05/MyrowManicMonologues.mp3","sticky":false,"audioTrackLength":164,"path":"/arts/13856397/manic-monologues-seeks-to-disrupt-the-stigma-around-mental-illness","audioDuration":164000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">In today’s enlightened age, polite people would never admit talking about mental illness is taboo. But it is. If you have a psychiatric illness, or someone you love does, you know it’s awkward to talk about. Raise the subject, and people mutter something vaguely sympathetic and find a way to move away from you or change the subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Then there’s the taboo you feel within yourself. That was the experience of fourth-year Stanford Ph.D. Student \u003ca href=\"https://earth.stanford.edu/people/zack-burton#gs.9bv9by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zack Burton,\u003c/a> now a couple of years past his first psychotic break and diagnosis of bipolar disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stigma, that even I myself had toward mental illness, really made that recovery somewhat more difficult than the psychosis itself and the actual events surrounding my diagnosis,” Burton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Searching online for information and community didn’t help. “There’s this lack of relatable stories out there, which is very frightening when you’re sort of WebMDing symptoms and saying ‘Will life ever be the same?’ A lot of responses are saying ‘No, life will never be the same again.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Burton and his girlfriend, psychiatric clinical research coordinator \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.stanford.edu/elisa-hofmeister\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elisa Hofmeister\u003c/a>, were willing to talk openly about what they were experiencing—only to discover people they thought they knew had been hiding their own experiences. “It was something like three or four of our closest friends who either had mental illness or had a parent who had mental illness. But we had never realized that before, even amongst very close friends,” marveled Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">That’s when they hit on the idea of doing the mental-illness version of \u003ca href=\"https://www.eveensler.org/plays/the-vagina-monologues/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Vagina Monologues\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Eve Ensler’s classic collection of first-person stories about female sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/_eKbur64CdA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/_eKbur64CdA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Roughly 20 years ago, the blockbuster theater piece blasted a longstanding taboo to smithereens with devastating humor and pathos. Ensler did all the research and writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">For \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.themanicmonologues.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manic Monologues\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Burton and Hofmeister reached out to a wide variety of people to get first-person stories. There are fifteen altogether, ranging from the funny to the heartbreaking, performed by actors and the authors themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Hofmeister drew a parallel between mental illness and cancer. “Back in the 1950s, cancer was really stigmatized. People did not want to talk about it. It was seen as kind of a shameful thing to receive a diagnosis of cancer. It’s frightening, of course, but there’s no reason to be ashamed of it,” Hofmeister said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The two enlisted the help of a wide-ranging advisory team, including \u003ca href=\"https://stanfordhealthcare.org/doctors/h/rona-hu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Rona Hu\u003c/a>, a Clinical Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences who launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13113401/stanford-psychiatrists-take-to-the-stage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a series of theatrical vignettes\u003c/a> designed to help Asian-Americans and Latinos confront a variety of parenting and mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">She even wrote a monologue about her own experience that she’s performing in \u003cem>Manic Monologues\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Back when Hu was a college student, she didn’t understand her boyfriend had bipolar disorder. She was so freaked out by his behavior, she actually ghosted him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13856444 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS36913_IMG_6906-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='The cast of \"Manic Monologues,\" a theatre piece exploring 15 different perspectives on mental illness, not unlike \"Vagina Monologues\" did with female sexuality in the 1990s. (Back row, left to right): Audrey Mitchell, Corinne Bernhard, Zack Burton, Rebecca Jia, Grégoire Faucher, Steve Dobbs (Front row, left to right): Dr. Rona Hu, Chloe Harris, Elisa Hofmeister, Khuyen Le, Julie Lee' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS36913_IMG_6906-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS36913_IMG_6906-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS36913_IMG_6906-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS36913_IMG_6906-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS36913_IMG_6906-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/RS36913_IMG_6906-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of “Manic Monologues,” a theatre piece exploring 15 different perspectives on mental illness, not unlike “Vagina Monologues” did with female sexuality in the 1990s. (Back row, left to right): Audrey Mitchell, Corinne Bernhard, Zack Burton, Rebecca Jia, Grégoire Faucher, Steve Dobbs (Front row, left to right): Dr. Rona Hu, Chloe Harris, Elisa Hofmeister, Khuyen Le, Julie Lee \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Vianno Vo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“Lucky for me, it was getting to be the end of the school year, and I had summer plans in another country, in Paris. These were plans I kept to myself. So when June rolled around, I just sort of got on the plane and disappeared,” Ru says in her monologue, baring that awkward chapter from her past in the hopes of reaching people in pain who are afraid to admit it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13113401,news_10524319,arts_13851676","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Today, Hu is Medical Director of the Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Unit at Stanford Hospital, where she treats lots of people with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hu knows what mental illness looks like today. But she encounters lots of people who don’t, who misinterpret their loved ones’ behavior, “almost like a moral weakness. Or something that people are doing on purpose,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Institute of Mental Health\u003c/a>, nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (46.6 million in 2017).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stigma is such a dangerous thing. It keeps people from getting help. It keeps people from even realizing that there’s an issue that there are solutions for,” Hu said. She’s enthusiastic about encouraging people to talk openly about mental illness, even if it means talking about the misgivings many people have about getting or staying emotionally involved with a person on a mental health roller coaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“If that young man had had just a few fewer episodes, or had hidden them from me better, than maybe I would have several very attractive children with him right now, and be tracking him down through his credit card receipts, and asking the highway patrol if they’d seen him. Things that I’ve had patients tell me about, and patients’ family members tell me about,” Hu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">All three \u003cem>Manic Monologues\u003c/em> shows at Stanford are sold out, but the hope is that the show travels the way \u003cem>Vagina Monologues\u003c/em> did, and has the same cultural impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would really like to help high school, college, and community theaters put on their own versions of the show,” Burton said, and to that effect, he added, “All proceeds of the show, as well as our \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/the-manic-monologues-destigmatizing-mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gofundme\u003c/a> campaign, will go toward seed funding for other theaters to perform the show.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Manic Monologues’ runs Thursday through Saturday, May 2–4, at Stanford’s Pigott Theater. \u003ca href=\"https://arts.stanford.edu/event/82535/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13856397/manic-monologues-seeks-to-disrupt-the-stigma-around-mental-illness","authors":["251"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_235","arts_967"],"tags":["arts_1119","arts_4773","arts_596","arts_2309"],"featImg":"arts_13856471","label":"arts"},"arts_13855947":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13855947","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13855947","score":null,"sort":[1556577039000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"100-years-of-merce-cunningham-celebrated-in-san-francisco","title":"100 Years of Merce Cunningham, Celebrated in San Francisco","publishDate":1556577039,"format":"standard","headTitle":"100 Years of Merce Cunningham, Celebrated in San Francisco | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>The oft-revered yet enigmatic choreographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercecunningham.org/about/merce-cunningham/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merce Cunningham\u003c/a> would have turned 100 in April, and an explosion of tributes by dance institutions \u003ca href=\"https://bachtrack.com/review-merce-cunningham-centennial-joyce-theater-new-york-april-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">large\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ballettothepeople.com/2019/03/22/scramble-the-seasons-and-the-elements-of-style-from-the-ever-stylish-new-york-theatre-ballet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">small\u003c/a> include events \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/20/715224514/100-dances-for-100-years-of-merce-cunningham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as imaginative and quixotic\u003c/a> as his own. Cunningham was a disruptor and a pioneer, whose (non)collaborations with composer \u003ca href=\"https://www.wfmt.com/2017/02/24/composer-john-cage-choreographer-merce-cunningham-changed-art-collaboration/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Cage\u003c/a> and artists like \u003ca href=\"https://frieze.com/article/bride-bachelors-and-robert-rauschenberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Rauschenberg\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/jun/06/dance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Warhol\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/merce-cunningham-common-time-869543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jasper Johns\u003c/a> unmoored dance from music, narrative, and scenic design, sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/nov/24/merce-cunningham-review-variations-v-1966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mystifying\u003c/a> and even \u003ca href=\"https://www.weeklystandard.com/robert-greskovic/merce-cunningham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infuriating\u003c/a> audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps more than any other 20th century choreographer, Cunningham inspired those who danced with him to experiment and take risks in the creation of their own work, which usually looked nothing like his. As the Bay Area choreographer \u003ca href=\"https://charlesmoulton.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Moulton\u003c/a>, who \u003ca href=\"http://charlesmoulton.com/on-joining-the-merce-cunningham-company/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">danced with Cunningham\u003c/a> from 1973 to 1976, told me, “The root of his work was his love of dance, of the form. His own work was his own – uncompromising, beautiful, crystalline – but he loved other choreography as well. He had this extremely refined, elegant, and in many ways difficult aesthetic and yet he was a huge fan of dance of all kinds. There was a great openness which influenced me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856030\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856030\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972-800x799.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972-800x799.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972-768x767.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972-1020x1018.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972-1200x1198.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972-1920x1917.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Roess-Smith, Karen Attix, Robert Kovich, and Merce Cunningham in ‘TV Rerun,’ 1972. Score by Gordon Mumma, costumes by Jasper Johns. (Photo by Jack Mitchell)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though Cunningham’s company was based in New York, a 1955 West Coast tour sparked a long \u003ca href=\"https://dancersgroup.org/2011/03/musing-on-merce-the-bay-area-remembers-cunningham/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">love affair\u003c/a> with California. In recent years, though, you might not know it: the Bay Area hasn’t seen a revival of a Cunningham work since the (now-defunct) Ballet San Jose gave a crisp account of his \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ballet-san-jose-bows-to-modern-masters_b_3139627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duets\u003c/a> \u003c/em>in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nod to Cunningham’s innovations with technology and film, Dance Film SF—presenters of the San Francisco Dance Film Festival—will \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdancefilmfest.org/merce-cunningham-at-100/assemblage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">screen\u003c/a> \u003cem>Assemblage\u003c/em>, his very first extended work created expressly for film, alongside \u003cem>If the Dancer Dances\u003c/em>, a new documentary that illuminates the challenges of restaging one of his iconic works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13855999\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13855999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Assemblage5-800x584.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Assemblage5-800x584.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Assemblage5-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Assemblage5-768x561.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Assemblage5.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merce Cunningham Dance Company in ‘Assemblage,’ 1968. (Photo courtesy Dance Film SF)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Assemblage’: “Everyone could have an idea”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 1968, Cunningham’s company was coming off a disaster-ridden South American tour. Though they had broken out of obscurity after a triumphant London season in 1964, and had recently been appointed a resident company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, company finances remained dire. The filming of a three-week caper on the sunny streets of San Francisco in October reinvigorated the company, wrote dancer Carolyn Brown in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/06/04/chance-and-circumstance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memoir\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That film was \u003cem>Assemblage\u003c/em>, produced by KQED-TV and directed by Richard O. Moore, who, with Cunningham, masterminded a cinematic collision of dance and architecture set in and around the newly redeveloped \u003ca href=\"https://www.ghirardellisq.com/history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghirardelli Square\u003c/a>. The concept behind that redevelopment, with its echoes of an industrial past, would soon be mimicked in urban restoration projects across America. But in 1968, it was a \u003ca href=\"http://experiments.californiahistoricalsociety.org/urban-renaissance-with-mermaids-lawrence-halprins-ghirardelli-square/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pioneer\u003c/a>, not unlike the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968-800x648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968-800x648.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968-160x130.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968-768x622.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968-1020x826.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968-1200x972.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968-1920x1555.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolyn Brown at Ghirardelli Square, filming Merce Cunningham’s ‘Assemblage,’ 1968. (Photo: Bill Young)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the dancers showed up for filming, sculptor Ruth Asawa’s bronze mermaids had just splashed down in a courtyard fountain. Asawa’s image of bare-breasted mermaids nursing mer-babies provoked some \u003ca href=\"https://www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/ruth-asawa-at-ghirardelli-square.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversy\u003c/a>, but the radical feminist statement made a striking backdrop to the dancers’ escapades—as did the frequent glimpses of Alcatraz, of modernist architectural elements juxtaposed against rosy brick façades, and the American flag buffeted by a brisk wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/valda-setterfield-in-lear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valda Setterfield\u003c/a>, the celebrated dancer-actor and an early company stalwart, who recalled, “It was the first film that I’d worked in, and what I was immediately struck with was the work of the technicians on the film—and the gear that they had to lug around, which they did with great grace.” Three cameramen moved in and around the dancers, at distances both intimate and remote, with no fixed blueprint. “There was a kind of ease about it,” Setterfield noted, “an ease borne out of an unknown-ness, for me at any rate.” Although the company had rehearsed a few sequences, Cunningham or one of the dancers would frequently get an idea on the spot, and the company and crew would just go with it. Amid the playful improvisations, she stressed, “We were very attentive to where the crew were and what they needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/332732849\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved those kind of moments that could happen with Merce,” she went on, “particularly in a situation like this which wasn’t fully structured.” Setterfield remarked on how unusual it was for the dancers to be performing in the daytime, and for the crew to be shooting in natural light, frequently capturing passers-by in the frame. She embraced the experience: “I love the sea, and it smelled of the sea. There was a kind of freedom and pleasure about what we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the film reflects that spirit—very much a ’60s vibe, especially when the women shed their ‘uniforms’ of tights and leotards for geometric-patterned mini-dresses and silver go-go boots. There are also meditative moments and images of poignant, otherworldly beauty, as the dancers, each so distinctive, negotiate the rigor of Cunningham’s prescribed movements. Most striking are those scenes in which structures like stair railings are stripped of their material presence, becoming screens onto which outbursts of dance are projected—and conversely, when dancers’ bodies become screens for projected images of rolling clouds and the splashing fountain. Then there was Cunningham, racing wildly around the complex like a fugitive, dropping and rolling as if shots had been fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856027\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856027\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968-768x547.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968-1020x727.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968-1200x855.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968-1920x1368.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meg Harper and Jeff Slayton at Ghirardelli Square filming of Merce Cunningham’s ‘Assemblage,’ 1968. (Photo: Bill Young)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I also caught up with Bill Yahraus, who operated one of the three cameras for \u003cem>Assemblage\u003c/em>. He was a newbie on the KQED team but, in that egalitarian unit, while they were shooting, “everyone could have an idea,” he said. He ended up in sole charge of post-production, though, which took months, he said, to achieve the special effects—the intricate fragmenting and superimposing of imagery that make the film so startling and immediate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every effect was a surprise,” Yahraus explained, “because each involved multiple passes, either with an overhead camera or through a printer, before the film was processed. So I never knew exactly what they would look like until they came back from the lab. There was a large element of randomness to all of it.” That spirit spilled into the soundtrack, developed independently from the dance by John Cage, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor, who ran around the Square and farther afield, taping the drone of traffic, the clackety-clack of trains, desultory sidewalk conversations, birdsong, the groaning of the Golden Gate Bridge and the static of urban life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856016\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856016\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Nick-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Nick-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Nick-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Nick-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Nick-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Nick-1200x676.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Nick.jpg 1522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davalois Fearon and Nicholas Sciscione in ‘If the Dancer Dances.’ (Photo courtesy Monument Releasing)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘If the Dancer Dances’: “How does ephemeral work live on?”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Among the nine dancers in \u003cem>Assemblage\u003c/em> was a young Meg Harper, who had joined the company barely a year before. She appears again, nearly 50 years later, as a luminous presence in \u003ca href=\"https://ifthedancer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>If the Dancer Dances\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which will screen in San Francisco on the same day as \u003cem>Assemblage\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/323308357\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new documentary\u003c/a> follows the 2015 restaging of Cunningham’s darkly mysterious \u003cem>RainForest\u003c/em> on the \u003ca href=\"https://walkerart.org/magazine/performance-thoughts-stephen-petronio-dance-company-rainforest-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Petronio Company\u003c/a>. Unusually, three stagers were involved: Harper, Rashaun Mitchell, and Andrea Weber, who each belonged to different generations of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. A fourth Cunningham alumna, Melissa Toogood, joined the cast as a guest dancer, bringing a bullets-whizzing-by energy to this revival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sat down in New York with filmmakers Lise Friedman and Maia Wechsler, who talked about the hard labor and inherent frustrations in transmitting dance down to new generations. It’s a task that requires the “transferring of movement, body-to-body,” as Friedman put it. She herself danced with Cunningham from 1977 to 1984. After his death in 2009 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2011/08/06/139021889/merce-cunninghams-legacy-the-dance-goes-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disbanding\u003c/a> of his company, on his instructions, two years later, she teamed up with Wechsler to tackle the question, “How does ephemeral work live on?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856011\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856011\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Meg-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Meg-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Meg-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Meg-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Meg-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Meg-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Meg.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meg Harper and Stephen Petronio Company dancer Davalois Fearon in ‘If the Dancer Dances.’ (Photo courtesy Monument Releasing)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the film, Mitchell, who danced in the company from 2004 until it disbanded, reflects: “It was always really clear to us that he [Cunningham] did not want us to be the people who came before. He did not want us to emulate something that had already happened. He wanted us to find our own self within this movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing a sentiment expressed by Harper in the film, Friedman noted, “Staging doesn’t usually settle in the bodies of the dancers until after [the stagers] are gone, until after they’ve done it for a while. When you can sense the sense of ownership, that these dancers feel they have the right to dance these roles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856038\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13856038 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_07-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_07-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_07-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_07-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_07-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_07-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_07-1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jermaine Maurice Spivey in ‘Night of 100 Solos’ at CAP UCLA. (Photo: Reed Hutchinson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Night of 100 Solos’: “A dancer has to find a way to begin again each day”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On what would have been Cunningham’s 100th birthday, on April 16, much of the dance world was riveted by back-to-back performances \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/20/715224514/100-dances-for-100-years-of-merce-cunningham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">livestreamed\u003c/a> from London, New York and Los Angeles, each an absorbing jumble of solos from six decades of his career. Like the one-off ‘events’ for which Cunningham would repurpose bits and pieces of rep, the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercecunningham.org/activities/night-of-100-solos/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Night of 100 Solos\u003c/a> \u003c/em>scaled the concept up and took it global.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 100 solos were performed by 75 dancers from diverse backgrounds, none of whom had ever danced with the Cunningham company but who were coached for this occasion by former Cunningham dancers. They ranged widely in age, physique, and training, from classical ballet to modern and street dance, and included many more dancers of color than have danced Cunningham’s work in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856033\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13856033 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_17-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_17-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_17-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_17-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_17-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_17-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_17.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merce Cunningham Centennial ‘Night of 100 Solos’ at CAP UCLA. (Photo: Reed Hutchinson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sometimes a soloist would be truly alone on stage. More often, dancers would cross paths companionably, and ensembles of three or four would tackle their assignments in close proximity, though they would rarely interact. Movement passages that have no common thread but happened to take place at the same time suddenly seemed to invite conversation, intimacy, or battle. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercecunningham.org/activities/night-of-100-solos/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The entire \u003cem>Night of 100 Solos\u003c/em> can be viewed here until July 19, 2019\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked her about \u003cem>100 Solos\u003c/em>, Lise Friedman commented, “Merce’s work can withstand this mutability. There are so many ways in which his work can be seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few of the solos were repeated in all three cities, in a charming round-the-world handoff. These included the high-octane solo from \u003cem>Travelogue \u003c/em>in which the dancer jumps around with clanking tin cans strapped to his legs (courtesy of Robert Rauschenberg), and John Cage’s infamous \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2000/05/08/1073885/4-33\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>4’33”\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—in which the musician is instructed not to play anything for four minutes and 33 seconds—which was reinterpreted for dance in all three cities, with all 25 dancers on stage each time, to hypnotic effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856040\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13856040 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_67-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_67-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_67-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_67-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_67-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_67-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_67-1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorrin Brubaker in ‘Night of 100 Solos’ at CAP UCLA. (Photo: Reed Hutchinson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As \u003cem>100 Solos \u003c/em>rolled on with no climax or resolution, an extraordinary serenity settled in, with wave after wave of performers signaling to us and to each other, “I got this.” Some, like New York City Ballet’s Sara Mearns, wrestled more visibly with the knotty technique; others, like the Royal Ballet’s Joseph Sissens and Francesca Hayward, former Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company member Shayla-Vie Jenkins, and José Limón dancer Savannah Spratt, conquered and stretched it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman told me: “Merce loved to see the struggle, loved to see awkwardness in a dancer. He appreciated the risk-taking.” It reminded me of something Cunningham once said in an \u003ca href=\"https://brooklynrail.org/2019/04/dance/MERCES-WAY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A dancer,” he said, “has to find a way to begin again each day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dance Film SF airs ‘Assemblage’ and ‘If the Dancer Dances’ on Saturday, May 4, at the Delancey Street Screening Room. Tickets and information \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdancefilmfest.org/merce-cunningham-at-100/assemblage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The 'uncompromising, crystalline' dance pioneer is honored with two films—one from KQED's archives, set in Ghirardelli Square in 1968.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705026261,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":2143},"headData":{"title":"100 Years of Merce Cunningham, Celebrated in San Francisco | KQED","description":"The 'uncompromising, crystalline' dance pioneer is honored with two films—one from KQED's archives, set in Ghirardelli Square in 1968.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13855947/100-years-of-merce-cunningham-celebrated-in-san-francisco","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The oft-revered yet enigmatic choreographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercecunningham.org/about/merce-cunningham/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merce Cunningham\u003c/a> would have turned 100 in April, and an explosion of tributes by dance institutions \u003ca href=\"https://bachtrack.com/review-merce-cunningham-centennial-joyce-theater-new-york-april-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">large\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ballettothepeople.com/2019/03/22/scramble-the-seasons-and-the-elements-of-style-from-the-ever-stylish-new-york-theatre-ballet/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">small\u003c/a> include events \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/20/715224514/100-dances-for-100-years-of-merce-cunningham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as imaginative and quixotic\u003c/a> as his own. Cunningham was a disruptor and a pioneer, whose (non)collaborations with composer \u003ca href=\"https://www.wfmt.com/2017/02/24/composer-john-cage-choreographer-merce-cunningham-changed-art-collaboration/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Cage\u003c/a> and artists like \u003ca href=\"https://frieze.com/article/bride-bachelors-and-robert-rauschenberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Rauschenberg\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/jun/06/dance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Warhol\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/merce-cunningham-common-time-869543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jasper Johns\u003c/a> unmoored dance from music, narrative, and scenic design, sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/nov/24/merce-cunningham-review-variations-v-1966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mystifying\u003c/a> and even \u003ca href=\"https://www.weeklystandard.com/robert-greskovic/merce-cunningham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infuriating\u003c/a> audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps more than any other 20th century choreographer, Cunningham inspired those who danced with him to experiment and take risks in the creation of their own work, which usually looked nothing like his. As the Bay Area choreographer \u003ca href=\"https://charlesmoulton.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Moulton\u003c/a>, who \u003ca href=\"http://charlesmoulton.com/on-joining-the-merce-cunningham-company/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">danced with Cunningham\u003c/a> from 1973 to 1976, told me, “The root of his work was his love of dance, of the form. His own work was his own – uncompromising, beautiful, crystalline – but he loved other choreography as well. He had this extremely refined, elegant, and in many ways difficult aesthetic and yet he was a huge fan of dance of all kinds. There was a great openness which influenced me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856030\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856030\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972-800x799.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972-800x799.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972-768x767.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972-1020x1018.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972-1200x1198.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972-1920x1917.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/TV-Rerun.-Jack-Mitchell_1972.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Roess-Smith, Karen Attix, Robert Kovich, and Merce Cunningham in ‘TV Rerun,’ 1972. Score by Gordon Mumma, costumes by Jasper Johns. (Photo by Jack Mitchell)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though Cunningham’s company was based in New York, a 1955 West Coast tour sparked a long \u003ca href=\"https://dancersgroup.org/2011/03/musing-on-merce-the-bay-area-remembers-cunningham/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">love affair\u003c/a> with California. In recent years, though, you might not know it: the Bay Area hasn’t seen a revival of a Cunningham work since the (now-defunct) Ballet San Jose gave a crisp account of his \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ballet-san-jose-bows-to-modern-masters_b_3139627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duets\u003c/a> \u003c/em>in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nod to Cunningham’s innovations with technology and film, Dance Film SF—presenters of the San Francisco Dance Film Festival—will \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdancefilmfest.org/merce-cunningham-at-100/assemblage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">screen\u003c/a> \u003cem>Assemblage\u003c/em>, his very first extended work created expressly for film, alongside \u003cem>If the Dancer Dances\u003c/em>, a new documentary that illuminates the challenges of restaging one of his iconic works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13855999\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13855999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Assemblage5-800x584.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Assemblage5-800x584.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Assemblage5-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Assemblage5-768x561.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Assemblage5.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merce Cunningham Dance Company in ‘Assemblage,’ 1968. (Photo courtesy Dance Film SF)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Assemblage’: “Everyone could have an idea”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 1968, Cunningham’s company was coming off a disaster-ridden South American tour. Though they had broken out of obscurity after a triumphant London season in 1964, and had recently been appointed a resident company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, company finances remained dire. The filming of a three-week caper on the sunny streets of San Francisco in October reinvigorated the company, wrote dancer Carolyn Brown in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/06/04/chance-and-circumstance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memoir\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That film was \u003cem>Assemblage\u003c/em>, produced by KQED-TV and directed by Richard O. Moore, who, with Cunningham, masterminded a cinematic collision of dance and architecture set in and around the newly redeveloped \u003ca href=\"https://www.ghirardellisq.com/history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghirardelli Square\u003c/a>. The concept behind that redevelopment, with its echoes of an industrial past, would soon be mimicked in urban restoration projects across America. But in 1968, it was a \u003ca href=\"http://experiments.californiahistoricalsociety.org/urban-renaissance-with-mermaids-lawrence-halprins-ghirardelli-square/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pioneer\u003c/a>, not unlike the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856026\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968-800x648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968-800x648.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968-160x130.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968-768x622.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968-1020x826.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968-1200x972.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968-1920x1555.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CBrown_Young1968.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolyn Brown at Ghirardelli Square, filming Merce Cunningham’s ‘Assemblage,’ 1968. (Photo: Bill Young)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the dancers showed up for filming, sculptor Ruth Asawa’s bronze mermaids had just splashed down in a courtyard fountain. Asawa’s image of bare-breasted mermaids nursing mer-babies provoked some \u003ca href=\"https://www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/ruth-asawa-at-ghirardelli-square.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversy\u003c/a>, but the radical feminist statement made a striking backdrop to the dancers’ escapades—as did the frequent glimpses of Alcatraz, of modernist architectural elements juxtaposed against rosy brick façades, and the American flag buffeted by a brisk wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/valda-setterfield-in-lear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valda Setterfield\u003c/a>, the celebrated dancer-actor and an early company stalwart, who recalled, “It was the first film that I’d worked in, and what I was immediately struck with was the work of the technicians on the film—and the gear that they had to lug around, which they did with great grace.” Three cameramen moved in and around the dancers, at distances both intimate and remote, with no fixed blueprint. “There was a kind of ease about it,” Setterfield noted, “an ease borne out of an unknown-ness, for me at any rate.” Although the company had rehearsed a few sequences, Cunningham or one of the dancers would frequently get an idea on the spot, and the company and crew would just go with it. Amid the playful improvisations, she stressed, “We were very attentive to where the crew were and what they needed.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"vimeoLink","attributes":{"named":{"vimeoId":"332732849"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“I loved those kind of moments that could happen with Merce,” she went on, “particularly in a situation like this which wasn’t fully structured.” Setterfield remarked on how unusual it was for the dancers to be performing in the daytime, and for the crew to be shooting in natural light, frequently capturing passers-by in the frame. She embraced the experience: “I love the sea, and it smelled of the sea. There was a kind of freedom and pleasure about what we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the film reflects that spirit—very much a ’60s vibe, especially when the women shed their ‘uniforms’ of tights and leotards for geometric-patterned mini-dresses and silver go-go boots. There are also meditative moments and images of poignant, otherworldly beauty, as the dancers, each so distinctive, negotiate the rigor of Cunningham’s prescribed movements. Most striking are those scenes in which structures like stair railings are stripped of their material presence, becoming screens onto which outbursts of dance are projected—and conversely, when dancers’ bodies become screens for projected images of rolling clouds and the splashing fountain. Then there was Cunningham, racing wildly around the complex like a fugitive, dropping and rolling as if shots had been fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856027\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856027\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968-768x547.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968-1020x727.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968-1200x855.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968-1920x1368.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/MHarperJSlayton_Young1968.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meg Harper and Jeff Slayton at Ghirardelli Square filming of Merce Cunningham’s ‘Assemblage,’ 1968. (Photo: Bill Young)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I also caught up with Bill Yahraus, who operated one of the three cameras for \u003cem>Assemblage\u003c/em>. He was a newbie on the KQED team but, in that egalitarian unit, while they were shooting, “everyone could have an idea,” he said. He ended up in sole charge of post-production, though, which took months, he said, to achieve the special effects—the intricate fragmenting and superimposing of imagery that make the film so startling and immediate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every effect was a surprise,” Yahraus explained, “because each involved multiple passes, either with an overhead camera or through a printer, before the film was processed. So I never knew exactly what they would look like until they came back from the lab. There was a large element of randomness to all of it.” That spirit spilled into the soundtrack, developed independently from the dance by John Cage, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor, who ran around the Square and farther afield, taping the drone of traffic, the clackety-clack of trains, desultory sidewalk conversations, birdsong, the groaning of the Golden Gate Bridge and the static of urban life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856016\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856016\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Nick-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Nick-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Nick-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Nick-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Nick-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Nick-1200x676.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Nick.jpg 1522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davalois Fearon and Nicholas Sciscione in ‘If the Dancer Dances.’ (Photo courtesy Monument Releasing)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘If the Dancer Dances’: “How does ephemeral work live on?”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Among the nine dancers in \u003cem>Assemblage\u003c/em> was a young Meg Harper, who had joined the company barely a year before. She appears again, nearly 50 years later, as a luminous presence in \u003ca href=\"https://ifthedancer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>If the Dancer Dances\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which will screen in San Francisco on the same day as \u003cem>Assemblage\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/323308357\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new documentary\u003c/a> follows the 2015 restaging of Cunningham’s darkly mysterious \u003cem>RainForest\u003c/em> on the \u003ca href=\"https://walkerart.org/magazine/performance-thoughts-stephen-petronio-dance-company-rainforest-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Petronio Company\u003c/a>. Unusually, three stagers were involved: Harper, Rashaun Mitchell, and Andrea Weber, who each belonged to different generations of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. A fourth Cunningham alumna, Melissa Toogood, joined the cast as a guest dancer, bringing a bullets-whizzing-by energy to this revival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sat down in New York with filmmakers Lise Friedman and Maia Wechsler, who talked about the hard labor and inherent frustrations in transmitting dance down to new generations. It’s a task that requires the “transferring of movement, body-to-body,” as Friedman put it. She herself danced with Cunningham from 1977 to 1984. After his death in 2009 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2011/08/06/139021889/merce-cunninghams-legacy-the-dance-goes-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disbanding\u003c/a> of his company, on his instructions, two years later, she teamed up with Wechsler to tackle the question, “How does ephemeral work live on?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856011\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13856011\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Meg-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Meg-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Meg-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Meg-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Meg-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Meg-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Dava-and-Meg.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meg Harper and Stephen Petronio Company dancer Davalois Fearon in ‘If the Dancer Dances.’ (Photo courtesy Monument Releasing)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the film, Mitchell, who danced in the company from 2004 until it disbanded, reflects: “It was always really clear to us that he [Cunningham] did not want us to be the people who came before. He did not want us to emulate something that had already happened. He wanted us to find our own self within this movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing a sentiment expressed by Harper in the film, Friedman noted, “Staging doesn’t usually settle in the bodies of the dancers until after [the stagers] are gone, until after they’ve done it for a while. When you can sense the sense of ownership, that these dancers feel they have the right to dance these roles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856038\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13856038 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_07-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_07-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_07-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_07-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_07-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_07-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_07-1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jermaine Maurice Spivey in ‘Night of 100 Solos’ at CAP UCLA. (Photo: Reed Hutchinson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Night of 100 Solos’: “A dancer has to find a way to begin again each day”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On what would have been Cunningham’s 100th birthday, on April 16, much of the dance world was riveted by back-to-back performances \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/20/715224514/100-dances-for-100-years-of-merce-cunningham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">livestreamed\u003c/a> from London, New York and Los Angeles, each an absorbing jumble of solos from six decades of his career. Like the one-off ‘events’ for which Cunningham would repurpose bits and pieces of rep, the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercecunningham.org/activities/night-of-100-solos/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Night of 100 Solos\u003c/a> \u003c/em>scaled the concept up and took it global.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 100 solos were performed by 75 dancers from diverse backgrounds, none of whom had ever danced with the Cunningham company but who were coached for this occasion by former Cunningham dancers. They ranged widely in age, physique, and training, from classical ballet to modern and street dance, and included many more dancers of color than have danced Cunningham’s work in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856033\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13856033 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_17-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_17-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_17-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_17-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_17-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_17-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_17.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merce Cunningham Centennial ‘Night of 100 Solos’ at CAP UCLA. (Photo: Reed Hutchinson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sometimes a soloist would be truly alone on stage. More often, dancers would cross paths companionably, and ensembles of three or four would tackle their assignments in close proximity, though they would rarely interact. Movement passages that have no common thread but happened to take place at the same time suddenly seemed to invite conversation, intimacy, or battle. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercecunningham.org/activities/night-of-100-solos/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The entire \u003cem>Night of 100 Solos\u003c/em> can be viewed here until July 19, 2019\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked her about \u003cem>100 Solos\u003c/em>, Lise Friedman commented, “Merce’s work can withstand this mutability. There are so many ways in which his work can be seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few of the solos were repeated in all three cities, in a charming round-the-world handoff. These included the high-octane solo from \u003cem>Travelogue \u003c/em>in which the dancer jumps around with clanking tin cans strapped to his legs (courtesy of Robert Rauschenberg), and John Cage’s infamous \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2000/05/08/1073885/4-33\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>4’33”\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—in which the musician is instructed not to play anything for four minutes and 33 seconds—which was reinterpreted for dance in all three cities, with all 25 dancers on stage each time, to hypnotic effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13856040\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13856040 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_67-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_67-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_67-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_67-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_67-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_67-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/Night-of-100-Solos_67-1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorrin Brubaker in ‘Night of 100 Solos’ at CAP UCLA. (Photo: Reed Hutchinson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As \u003cem>100 Solos \u003c/em>rolled on with no climax or resolution, an extraordinary serenity settled in, with wave after wave of performers signaling to us and to each other, “I got this.” Some, like New York City Ballet’s Sara Mearns, wrestled more visibly with the knotty technique; others, like the Royal Ballet’s Joseph Sissens and Francesca Hayward, former Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company member Shayla-Vie Jenkins, and José Limón dancer Savannah Spratt, conquered and stretched it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman told me: “Merce loved to see the struggle, loved to see awkwardness in a dancer. He appreciated the risk-taking.” It reminded me of something Cunningham once said in an \u003ca href=\"https://brooklynrail.org/2019/04/dance/MERCES-WAY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A dancer,” he said, “has to find a way to begin again each day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dance Film SF airs ‘Assemblage’ and ‘If the Dancer Dances’ on Saturday, May 4, at the Delancey Street Screening Room. Tickets and information \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdancefilmfest.org/merce-cunningham-at-100/assemblage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13855947/100-years-of-merce-cunningham-celebrated-in-san-francisco","authors":["11206"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_966"],"tags":["arts_879","arts_3607","arts_1119","arts_1118","arts_5849","arts_5710"],"featImg":"arts_13856268","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13851444":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13851444","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13851444","score":null,"sort":[1550854793000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"dear-ex-a-man-dies-leaving-behind-a-wife-a-son-and-a-secret-gay-lover","title":"'Dear Ex': A Man Dies, Leaving Behind A Wife, A Son And A Secret Gay Lover","publishDate":1550854793,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Dear Ex’: A Man Dies, Leaving Behind A Wife, A Son And A Secret Gay Lover | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Domestic dramas have to walk a fine line between sweetness and pathos, and the shaggy-yet-lovable new film \u003cem>Dear Ex\u003c/em> succeeds at this balance more than others. The Taiwanese heartstring-tugger, now available on Netflix after only being acquired by the service a week ago, circles around three complicated, hard-to-love characters, allowing their complexities to cloud their better natures. As in last year’s lovely Israeli drama \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/624046119/in-the-cakemaker-grieving-is-baked-in\">\u003cem>The Cakemaker\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the film links these figures via a closeted, recently deceased family man: a specter of authenticity cloaked in secrecy, who forces a reckoning for the loved ones he left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film opens with 13-year-old Chengxi (Joseph Huang) claiming he always knew his dad was gay. It has been three months since his professor father’s death from cancer, and Chengxi learns he’s been written out of his insurance policy. His prone-to-hysterics mother Sanlian (Ying-Xuan Hsieh) knows the truth: that her deceased husband Zhangyuan secretly named his longtime male lover as his benefactor, but that the claim can’t go through unless she signs off on it. So Sanlian drags Chengxi along to the mystery man’s ramshackle apartment, hoping to spur a confrontation that will somehow put the lid back on the wreckage of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dear Ex Trailer | SGIFF 2018\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/r94pd519Jf4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first third of \u003cem>Dear Ex\u003c/em> is told from Chengxi’s perspective, and it’s the strongest chunk of the film by far: a strange blend of sullen teen angst and the shock of an uncovered secret. The kid is utterly fascinated by his father’s lover Jay, a thirtysomething community theater director who can be furious one minute and tender the next. (He’s played by a terrific Roy Chiu, whose raw, prickly performance has no trace of the mincing-younger-gay-lover onscreen stereotype.) To escape his mother’s needling, Chengxi moves himself into Jay’s life without asking permission, and the two develop a wary bond as they putter through the city on Jay’s moped, trying to figure out what they mean to each other. Writer-director Mag Hsu and her co-director Chih-Yen Hsu stage these scenes in bright, brilliant hues, with long shots of the characters maneuvering around each other in hallways that bring to mind some of the early work of pioneering Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-Liang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the film broadens in scope, incorporating flashbacks and new dynamics like Jay’s traditionalist mother, it also shifts perspective: first to Sanlian, and then to Jay. But along the way, it loses the spark that came with a teenager’s incomplete-yet-restless worldview, instead entering a world of full-bore melodrama. Sanlian’s storyline, in particular, feels retrograde, both in her views on gay men and in her cartoonish attempts to keep a handle on her son by any means necessary – including an obsession with sending him off to college in Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay is the one character who defies easy categorization, because even through his slovenly nature and clear distrust of this family intrusion, his genuine devotion to the man he loved shines through. His flashback scenes with Zhangyuan (Spark Chen) are affectionate and sad, particularly when the two men discuss why they must keep their affair a secret to their families. “Not letting them be sad or worried is our responsibility,” Zhangyuan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A nice bit of linguistic detail: Though Sanlian tries to emasculate Jay by calling him a “mistress,” we quickly learn Zhangyuan, in fact, called him “hubby”… prompting Chengxi to instead refer to his mother as the true “mistress.” Identities shift like this throughout the story, as the three leads develop newfound compassion for each other despite their initial reservations. (As is required by law with every teen movie these days, some of this development must come with onscreen notebook doodles and scribbles to illustrate obvious points.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taiwan is \u003ca href=\"https://qz.com/1470193/how-taiwan-became-the-most-lgbt-friendly-country-in-asia/\">often recognized\u003c/a> as the most LGBT-friendly region in Asia, making the existence and wide availability of films like \u003cem>Dear Ex\u003c/em> a welcome cultural development. Considering the U.S.’s own mainstream movie industry has been remarkably slow to tell similar stories without patronizing characters like Jay, perhaps American filmmakers could learn something here, as well. The film may pale in comparison to \u003cem>The Cakemaker\u003c/em>, which told its story with more nuance and sensory detail. But\u003cem> Dear Ex\u003c/em>‘s narrative hiccups and tonal missteps seem less blaring by the time it enters its affecting homestretch, which involves Jay taking on large amounts of debt to stage a revival of a play with great emotional significance. Love in this movie is expressed in odd ways, but it is still genuine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"When it focuses on 13-year-old Chengxi (Joseph Huang), this \"shaggy-but-lovable\" Taiwanese film now on Netflix dutifully tugs the heartstrings. 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The Taiwanese heartstring-tugger, now available on Netflix after only being acquired by the service a week ago, circles around three complicated, hard-to-love characters, allowing their complexities to cloud their better natures. As in last year’s lovely Israeli drama \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/624046119/in-the-cakemaker-grieving-is-baked-in\">\u003cem>The Cakemaker\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the film links these figures via a closeted, recently deceased family man: a specter of authenticity cloaked in secrecy, who forces a reckoning for the loved ones he left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film opens with 13-year-old Chengxi (Joseph Huang) claiming he always knew his dad was gay. It has been three months since his professor father’s death from cancer, and Chengxi learns he’s been written out of his insurance policy. His prone-to-hysterics mother Sanlian (Ying-Xuan Hsieh) knows the truth: that her deceased husband Zhangyuan secretly named his longtime male lover as his benefactor, but that the claim can’t go through unless she signs off on it. So Sanlian drags Chengxi along to the mystery man’s ramshackle apartment, hoping to spur a confrontation that will somehow put the lid back on the wreckage of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dear Ex Trailer | SGIFF 2018\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/r94pd519Jf4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first third of \u003cem>Dear Ex\u003c/em> is told from Chengxi’s perspective, and it’s the strongest chunk of the film by far: a strange blend of sullen teen angst and the shock of an uncovered secret. The kid is utterly fascinated by his father’s lover Jay, a thirtysomething community theater director who can be furious one minute and tender the next. (He’s played by a terrific Roy Chiu, whose raw, prickly performance has no trace of the mincing-younger-gay-lover onscreen stereotype.) To escape his mother’s needling, Chengxi moves himself into Jay’s life without asking permission, and the two develop a wary bond as they putter through the city on Jay’s moped, trying to figure out what they mean to each other. Writer-director Mag Hsu and her co-director Chih-Yen Hsu stage these scenes in bright, brilliant hues, with long shots of the characters maneuvering around each other in hallways that bring to mind some of the early work of pioneering Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-Liang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the film broadens in scope, incorporating flashbacks and new dynamics like Jay’s traditionalist mother, it also shifts perspective: first to Sanlian, and then to Jay. But along the way, it loses the spark that came with a teenager’s incomplete-yet-restless worldview, instead entering a world of full-bore melodrama. Sanlian’s storyline, in particular, feels retrograde, both in her views on gay men and in her cartoonish attempts to keep a handle on her son by any means necessary – including an obsession with sending him off to college in Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay is the one character who defies easy categorization, because even through his slovenly nature and clear distrust of this family intrusion, his genuine devotion to the man he loved shines through. His flashback scenes with Zhangyuan (Spark Chen) are affectionate and sad, particularly when the two men discuss why they must keep their affair a secret to their families. “Not letting them be sad or worried is our responsibility,” Zhangyuan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A nice bit of linguistic detail: Though Sanlian tries to emasculate Jay by calling him a “mistress,” we quickly learn Zhangyuan, in fact, called him “hubby”… prompting Chengxi to instead refer to his mother as the true “mistress.” Identities shift like this throughout the story, as the three leads develop newfound compassion for each other despite their initial reservations. (As is required by law with every teen movie these days, some of this development must come with onscreen notebook doodles and scribbles to illustrate obvious points.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taiwan is \u003ca href=\"https://qz.com/1470193/how-taiwan-became-the-most-lgbt-friendly-country-in-asia/\">often recognized\u003c/a> as the most LGBT-friendly region in Asia, making the existence and wide availability of films like \u003cem>Dear Ex\u003c/em> a welcome cultural development. Considering the U.S.’s own mainstream movie industry has been remarkably slow to tell similar stories without patronizing characters like Jay, perhaps American filmmakers could learn something here, as well. The film may pale in comparison to \u003cem>The Cakemaker\u003c/em>, which told its story with more nuance and sensory detail. But\u003cem> Dear Ex\u003c/em>‘s narrative hiccups and tonal missteps seem less blaring by the time it enters its affecting homestretch, which involves Jay taking on large amounts of debt to stage a revival of a play with great emotional significance. Love in this movie is expressed in odd ways, but it is still genuine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13851444/dear-ex-a-man-dies-leaving-behind-a-wife-a-son-and-a-secret-gay-lover","authors":["byline_arts_13851444"],"categories":["arts_74","arts_90","arts_75","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_1119","arts_1118","arts_3226","arts_3324","arts_746","arts_1377","arts_596","arts_6772"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13851445","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13844099":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13844099","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13844099","score":null,"sort":[1541250043000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"jordi-savall-explores-the-musical-legacy-of-the-routes-of-slavery","title":"Jordi Savall Explores the Musical Legacy of 'The Routes of Slavery'","publishDate":1541250043,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Jordi Savall Explores the Musical Legacy of ‘The Routes of Slavery’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>There aren’t a lot of early music historians who are also celebrities, but the Catalonian composer and musician \u003ca href=\"http://www.allianceartistmanagement.com/artist.php?id=jsavall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jordi Savall\u003c/a> is one of them. He shot onto the international scene in 1991 with his heart-stopping viola da gamba performances in the film \u003ci>Tous les Matins du monde\u003c/i>. He has made more than 100 recordings, and his books have been published in eight languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the breadth of his half-century career, Savall has used his celebrity to draw crowds to hear epic musical adventures into history, sharing the stage with family and talents far beyond his home country of Spain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>With\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.allianceartistmanagement.com/artist.php?id=jsavall&aview=prog&rid=2725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem> The Routes of Slavery\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Savall has been touring the world with a couple dozen musicians, singers, and dancers from four continents, pairing them with local narrators and academics to cover the transatlantic slave trade. The troupe performs at \u003ca href=\"http://calperformances.org/performances/2018-19/early-music/jordi-savall-the-routes-of-slavery-1444-1888.php?fbclid=IwAR2VfpyTkokbiTJmma-noG9X-Jsu-w4BUTchzV3csFZy5_wuLnv-l2wbzCU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> and at \u003ca href=\"https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/november-2018/routes-slavery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford\u003c/a> this weekend, before heading to Seattle and then Austin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the purposes of \u003cem>Routes\u003c/em>, Savall sets his boundaries thusly: 1444, when the Portuguese began trading slaves, and 1888, when Brazil became the last Western country to abolish slavery. During that time, tens of millions of people were forcibly shipped from Africa to the Americas. (Estimates vary, depending on whether you account for those who died en route.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The Catalan musical historian Jordi Savall collaborates with artists from around the world on a musical exploration of the transatlantic slave trade.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-520x780.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Catalan musical historian Jordi Savall collaborates with artists from around the world on a musical exploration of the transatlantic slave trade. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Jordi Savall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This was the primary economic engine of the world economy for centuries,” says US history professor \u003ca href=\"https://history.stanford.edu/people/james-t-campbell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Campbell\u003c/a>, who will be part of the pre-show talk at Bing Concert Hall on Sunday. “It’s hard to imagine any history that we in the West have managed or contrived to forget and evade more thoroughly. Most Americans have no clue of the scope, duration and historical significance of the transatlantic slave trade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, to emphasize his point, Campbell gets Biblical. “You know, there’s a passage from the story of Jacob where he prophesies the diaspora.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. – Genesis 28:14\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“That grim but oddly hopeful prophecy is, to me, also the story of the transatlantic slave trade — and we here see it realized musically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is lush, moving and even joyful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBKj_5nUXVw]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell’s partner in the talk is \u003ca href=\"https://classics.stanford.edu/people/grant-parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grant Parker\u003c/a>, an associate professor of classics at Stanford who’s also involved in the university’s \u003ca href=\"https://africanstudies.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for African Studies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that Jordi Savall is very conscious of the problems of celebration in the context of such a grim history. Yet he has pulled it off with such a sensitivity, making it very clear that he’s interested in the individuals the lives involved and adding a human dimension to people that are otherwise names or perhaps not even names,” Parker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this era when the personal narrative reigns supreme, it’s hard for many audience members to wrap their arms around a multi-century epic with so little written record from the people who were enslaved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the music, Savall has narrators read from a variety of sources. There’s a passage from an 1855 Abraham Lincoln wrote to a friend and slave owner in Kentucky. There’s a passage from Martin Luther-King Jr’s 1963 book, \u003cem>Why We Can’t Wait. \u003c/em>Perhaps most horrifying is the first reading from the 1444 book the \u003cem>Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea, \u003c/em>by Gomes Eannes de Azurara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Very early in the morning because of the heat, a few Portuguese seamen unloaded their African cargo consisting of 235 slaves on the south west point of the Algarve in Portugal. This arrival of this collection of Africans was a novelty which attracted the curiosity of a number of people, including Prince Hendry of Portugal.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span> He watched impassive on horseback and himself received 46 of the slaves present, the royal fifth.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“The fact that they’re human beings is inconsequential,” says Santa Clara University theatre professor and actor \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/theatre/faculty--staff/aldo-billingslea/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aldo Billingslea\u003c/a>, who’s serving as the narrator for the Saturday performance at Zellerbach. “All of it speaks to me in some way. These beautiful sounds go right through your cartilage, your bone, your flesh and move your soul. It’s a spiritual event.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Savall has fixed on is that music is a form of history. Those slaves are speaking to us across the centuries about their experience.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Routes of Slavery\u003c/strong> plays Saturday November 3, 2018 at Zellerbach Hall and Sunday, November 4, 2018 at Bing Concert Hall. For more information, click \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://calperformances.org/performances/2018-19/early-music/jordi-savall-the-routes-of-slavery-1444-1888.php?fbclid=IwAR2VfpyTkokbiTJmma-noG9X-Jsu-w4BUTchzV3csFZy5_wuLnv-l2wbzCU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003ca href=\"https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/november-2018/routes-slavery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Catalan musical historian Jordi Savall is collaborating with artists from around the world on an exploration of the transatlantic slave trade.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705027057,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":867},"headData":{"title":"Jordi Savall Explores the Musical Legacy of 'The Routes of Slavery' | KQED","description":"The Catalan musical historian Jordi Savall is collaborating with artists from around the world on an exploration of the transatlantic slave trade.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/11/MyrowMusic.mp3","sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13844099/jordi-savall-explores-the-musical-legacy-of-the-routes-of-slavery","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There aren’t a lot of early music historians who are also celebrities, but the Catalonian composer and musician \u003ca href=\"http://www.allianceartistmanagement.com/artist.php?id=jsavall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jordi Savall\u003c/a> is one of them. He shot onto the international scene in 1991 with his heart-stopping viola da gamba performances in the film \u003ci>Tous les Matins du monde\u003c/i>. He has made more than 100 recordings, and his books have been published in eight languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the breadth of his half-century career, Savall has used his celebrity to draw crowds to hear epic musical adventures into history, sharing the stage with family and talents far beyond his home country of Spain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>With\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.allianceartistmanagement.com/artist.php?id=jsavall&aview=prog&rid=2725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem> The Routes of Slavery\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Savall has been touring the world with a couple dozen musicians, singers, and dancers from four continents, pairing them with local narrators and academics to cover the transatlantic slave trade. The troupe performs at \u003ca href=\"http://calperformances.org/performances/2018-19/early-music/jordi-savall-the-routes-of-slavery-1444-1888.php?fbclid=IwAR2VfpyTkokbiTJmma-noG9X-Jsu-w4BUTchzV3csFZy5_wuLnv-l2wbzCU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> and at \u003ca href=\"https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/november-2018/routes-slavery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford\u003c/a> this weekend, before heading to Seattle and then Austin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the purposes of \u003cem>Routes\u003c/em>, Savall sets his boundaries thusly: 1444, when the Portuguese began trading slaves, and 1888, when Brazil became the last Western country to abolish slavery. During that time, tens of millions of people were forcibly shipped from Africa to the Americas. (Estimates vary, depending on whether you account for those who died en route.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13844117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13844117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The Catalan musical historian Jordi Savall collaborates with artists from around the world on a musical exploration of the transatlantic slave trade.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut-520x780.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/RS33608_Press_Photo-qut.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Catalan musical historian Jordi Savall collaborates with artists from around the world on a musical exploration of the transatlantic slave trade. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Jordi Savall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This was the primary economic engine of the world economy for centuries,” says US history professor \u003ca href=\"https://history.stanford.edu/people/james-t-campbell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Campbell\u003c/a>, who will be part of the pre-show talk at Bing Concert Hall on Sunday. “It’s hard to imagine any history that we in the West have managed or contrived to forget and evade more thoroughly. Most Americans have no clue of the scope, duration and historical significance of the transatlantic slave trade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, to emphasize his point, Campbell gets Biblical. “You know, there’s a passage from the story of Jacob where he prophesies the diaspora.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. – Genesis 28:14\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“That grim but oddly hopeful prophecy is, to me, also the story of the transatlantic slave trade — and we here see it realized musically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is lush, moving and even joyful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/MBKj_5nUXVw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/MBKj_5nUXVw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell’s partner in the talk is \u003ca href=\"https://classics.stanford.edu/people/grant-parker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grant Parker\u003c/a>, an associate professor of classics at Stanford who’s also involved in the university’s \u003ca href=\"https://africanstudies.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for African Studies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that Jordi Savall is very conscious of the problems of celebration in the context of such a grim history. Yet he has pulled it off with such a sensitivity, making it very clear that he’s interested in the individuals the lives involved and adding a human dimension to people that are otherwise names or perhaps not even names,” Parker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this era when the personal narrative reigns supreme, it’s hard for many audience members to wrap their arms around a multi-century epic with so little written record from the people who were enslaved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the music, Savall has narrators read from a variety of sources. There’s a passage from an 1855 Abraham Lincoln wrote to a friend and slave owner in Kentucky. There’s a passage from Martin Luther-King Jr’s 1963 book, \u003cem>Why We Can’t Wait. \u003c/em>Perhaps most horrifying is the first reading from the 1444 book the \u003cem>Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea, \u003c/em>by Gomes Eannes de Azurara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Very early in the morning because of the heat, a few Portuguese seamen unloaded their African cargo consisting of 235 slaves on the south west point of the Algarve in Portugal. This arrival of this collection of Africans was a novelty which attracted the curiosity of a number of people, including Prince Hendry of Portugal.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span> He watched impassive on horseback and himself received 46 of the slaves present, the royal fifth.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“The fact that they’re human beings is inconsequential,” says Santa Clara University theatre professor and actor \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/theatre/faculty--staff/aldo-billingslea/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aldo Billingslea\u003c/a>, who’s serving as the narrator for the Saturday performance at Zellerbach. “All of it speaks to me in some way. These beautiful sounds go right through your cartilage, your bone, your flesh and move your soul. It’s a spiritual event.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Savall has fixed on is that music is a form of history. Those slaves are speaking to us across the centuries about their experience.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Routes of Slavery\u003c/strong> plays Saturday November 3, 2018 at Zellerbach Hall and Sunday, November 4, 2018 at Bing Concert Hall. For more information, click \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://calperformances.org/performances/2018-19/early-music/jordi-savall-the-routes-of-slavery-1444-1888.php?fbclid=IwAR2VfpyTkokbiTJmma-noG9X-Jsu-w4BUTchzV3csFZy5_wuLnv-l2wbzCU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003ca href=\"https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/november-2018/routes-slavery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13844099/jordi-savall-explores-the-musical-legacy-of-the-routes-of-slavery","authors":["251"],"categories":["arts_69","arts_235","arts_967"],"tags":["arts_2308","arts_1119","arts_596","arts_4642","arts_5165","arts_5164","arts_2880"],"featImg":"arts_13844118","label":"arts"},"arts_13843649":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13843649","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13843649","score":null,"sort":[1540666814000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oh-the-humanity-twitchcon-draws-streaming-masses-to-san-jose","title":"Oh, the Humanity! TwitchCon Draws Streaming Masses to San Jose","publishDate":1540666814,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Oh, the Humanity! TwitchCon Draws Streaming Masses to San Jose | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Tens of thousands of fans have descended from parts near and far on San Jose for \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitchcon.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TwitchCon 2018,\u003c/a> one giant thrill fest for those who live on the live-streaming platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/videos/327720797?collection=QA6Amns-YRUdIA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keynote speech\u003c/a>, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear made a point of emphasizing his emphasis on community. “Today, you’re going to hear me say ‘community’ 46 times. There’s a good reason for that. Billions of them, actually.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitch is predicated on a basic fact about humans: we like to watch other people and we like other people to watch us. TwitchCon is predicated on another basic fact about humans: we like to see the people we interact with, in person, eventually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13843653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13843653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt='Anthony Garcia and Alma Grace of Las Vegas dressed as \"skins\" from the game Fortnite: specifically, trex and triceratops. “It’s really fun. Every year, it grows,\" says Garcia. \"Just seeing all these other streamers and the community, it’s awesome.” ' width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Garcia and Alma Grace of Las Vegas dressed as “skins” from the game Fortnite: specifically, trex and triceratops. “It’s really fun. Every year, it grows,” says Garcia. “Just seeing all these other streamers and the community, it’s awesome.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thus, there’s a palpable thrill in the air at San Jose’s convention center, the kind of thrill that comes with viscerally sensing you are not alone in your passion for Twitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the case for Marvin England, a systems engineer from Austin. “I’m here to meet other streamers I’ve only met online,” he says; especially Filipino streamers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3D animator Lionel Milbourne of Baltimore was surprised by the size of this crowd after attending cons closer to home. “So far, it’s pretty lit. It’s a lot of people right here,” he says, his eyes spinning at the passing crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even people who work for Twitch are susceptible to the euphoria. Elena Gauvin of Sacramento, who works in trust and safety, says, “I’m excited to see my coworkers, because a lot of us are working remotely. So this might be the first time we’re meeting in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13843654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13843654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Hair stylist Tara Yorence of Los Angeles offers advice to Joshua Tafur of New Jersey on how to grow his Twitch stream. (She’s got 1,600 followers.) “Don’t focus on numbers. That’s what’s going to burn you out. Just focus on having fun.” \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hair stylist Tara Yorence of Los Angeles offered advice to Joshua Tafur of New Jersey on how to grow his Twitch stream. (She’s got 1,600 followers.) “Don’t focus on numbers. That’s what’s going to burn you out. Just focus on having fun.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It must also be said many Twitch streamers are interested in much more than engaging in it as a hobby. Like would-be Internet celebrities everywhere, huge numbers of streamers dream of achieving online stardom and lucrative sponsorship deals, and Twitch knows this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco-based, Amazon-owned platform has mastered the gamification of engagement with streamers. The more you stream, the more followers you have, the more support you get from Twitch building a bigger, better community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you can deliver 500 minutes of broadcast in the last 30 days with at least seven broadcasts, you can apply to be a part of a Twitch Affiliate program, where viewers can subscribe to your channel for $4.99.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://player.twitch.tv/?autoplay=false&video=v327720797\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"378\" width=\"620\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consistently attract 70-80 viewers per stream, and you can become a Twitch Partner. This year, Twitch says more than 235,000 streamers reached Affiliate status, and 6,800 reached Partner status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subscriptions, sponsorships, ads, direct donations from fans: is it enough to quit your day job? Maybe for superstar streamers like Ninja, who landed the platform’s biggest pop culture coup when he got to play Fortnite with rapper Drake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ninja makes more than $500,000 a month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/19/tyler-ninja-blevins-explains-how-he-makes-more-than-500000-a-month-playing-video-game-fortnite.html\">according to CNBC\u003c/a>. But that’s not going to happen for most of the more than 15 million daily visitors Twitch says it has. Still, a streamer can dream, and TwitchCon encourages that dream with celebrity panels and new feature announcements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13843655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13843655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"The chalk wall at TwitchCon 2018 at the San Jose Convention Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-800x604.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-768x580.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-1020x770.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-1200x906.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-1180x891.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-960x725.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-240x181.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-375x283.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-520x392.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The chalk wall at TwitchCon 2018 at the San Jose Convention Center. \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If anybody at TwitchCom 2018 was thinking about the two people killed and 11 injured in a mass shooting during a “Madden NFL” tournament in Jacksonville, Florida two months ago, nobody was talking about it with this reporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they were buzzing about safety and security \u003cem>online\u003c/em>: namely, troll control. Twitch is doing better supporting civility, says Miriam Aguirre. She’s a senior VP of engineering at \u003ca href=\"http://corp.skillz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skillz\u003c/a>, an mobile multiplayer competition platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre is speaking Sunday on a \u003ca href=\"https://twitchcon.com/schedule/women-in-gaming-how-to-break-the-cycle-of-underrepresentation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">panel\u003c/a> about the under-representation of women in gaming. She’s hoping people who left gaming because they felt unwelcome or unsafe in previous years consider coming back in 2018. She says the industry has grown increasingly sensitized to the need for tools like the one Twitch just unveiled, allowing streamers and moderators to see anybody’s chat rap sheet at a click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these tools should have been made available early on, but I’m glad they’re finally getting around to it,” Aguirre says.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Legions of Twitch streamers are gathering in San Jose this weekend to see each other in the real world.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705027083,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://player.twitch.tv/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":842},"headData":{"title":"Oh, the Humanity! TwitchCon Draws Streaming Masses to San Jose | KQED","description":"Legions of Twitch streamers are gathering in San Jose this weekend to see each other in the real world.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"audioTrackLength":75,"path":"/arts/13843649/oh-the-humanity-twitchcon-draws-streaming-masses-to-san-jose","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/10/TwitchCon.mp3","audioDuration":82000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Tens of thousands of fans have descended from parts near and far on San Jose for \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitchcon.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TwitchCon 2018,\u003c/a> one giant thrill fest for those who live on the live-streaming platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/videos/327720797?collection=QA6Amns-YRUdIA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keynote speech\u003c/a>, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear made a point of emphasizing his emphasis on community. “Today, you’re going to hear me say ‘community’ 46 times. There’s a good reason for that. Billions of them, actually.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitch is predicated on a basic fact about humans: we like to watch other people and we like other people to watch us. TwitchCon is predicated on another basic fact about humans: we like to see the people we interact with, in person, eventually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13843653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13843653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt='Anthony Garcia and Alma Grace of Las Vegas dressed as \"skins\" from the game Fortnite: specifically, trex and triceratops. “It’s really fun. Every year, it grows,\" says Garcia. \"Just seeing all these other streamers and the community, it’s awesome.” ' width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33450_Photo-Oct-26-12-46-59-PM-qut.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Garcia and Alma Grace of Las Vegas dressed as “skins” from the game Fortnite: specifically, trex and triceratops. “It’s really fun. Every year, it grows,” says Garcia. “Just seeing all these other streamers and the community, it’s awesome.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thus, there’s a palpable thrill in the air at San Jose’s convention center, the kind of thrill that comes with viscerally sensing you are not alone in your passion for Twitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the case for Marvin England, a systems engineer from Austin. “I’m here to meet other streamers I’ve only met online,” he says; especially Filipino streamers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3D animator Lionel Milbourne of Baltimore was surprised by the size of this crowd after attending cons closer to home. “So far, it’s pretty lit. It’s a lot of people right here,” he says, his eyes spinning at the passing crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even people who work for Twitch are susceptible to the euphoria. Elena Gauvin of Sacramento, who works in trust and safety, says, “I’m excited to see my coworkers, because a lot of us are working remotely. So this might be the first time we’re meeting in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13843654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13843654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Hair stylist Tara Yorence of Los Angeles offers advice to Joshua Tafur of New Jersey on how to grow his Twitch stream. (She’s got 1,600 followers.) “Don’t focus on numbers. That’s what’s going to burn you out. Just focus on having fun.” \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33446_Photo-Oct-26-1-07-59-PM-qut.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hair stylist Tara Yorence of Los Angeles offered advice to Joshua Tafur of New Jersey on how to grow his Twitch stream. (She’s got 1,600 followers.) “Don’t focus on numbers. That’s what’s going to burn you out. Just focus on having fun.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It must also be said many Twitch streamers are interested in much more than engaging in it as a hobby. Like would-be Internet celebrities everywhere, huge numbers of streamers dream of achieving online stardom and lucrative sponsorship deals, and Twitch knows this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco-based, Amazon-owned platform has mastered the gamification of engagement with streamers. The more you stream, the more followers you have, the more support you get from Twitch building a bigger, better community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you can deliver 500 minutes of broadcast in the last 30 days with at least seven broadcasts, you can apply to be a part of a Twitch Affiliate program, where viewers can subscribe to your channel for $4.99.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://player.twitch.tv/?autoplay=false&video=v327720797\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"378\" width=\"620\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consistently attract 70-80 viewers per stream, and you can become a Twitch Partner. This year, Twitch says more than 235,000 streamers reached Affiliate status, and 6,800 reached Partner status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subscriptions, sponsorships, ads, direct donations from fans: is it enough to quit your day job? Maybe for superstar streamers like Ninja, who landed the platform’s biggest pop culture coup when he got to play Fortnite with rapper Drake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ninja makes more than $500,000 a month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/19/tyler-ninja-blevins-explains-how-he-makes-more-than-500000-a-month-playing-video-game-fortnite.html\">according to CNBC\u003c/a>. But that’s not going to happen for most of the more than 15 million daily visitors Twitch says it has. Still, a streamer can dream, and TwitchCon encourages that dream with celebrity panels and new feature announcements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13843655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13843655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"The chalk wall at TwitchCon 2018 at the San Jose Convention Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-800x604.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-768x580.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-1020x770.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-1200x906.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-1180x891.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-960x725.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-240x181.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-375x283.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/RS33448_Photo-Oct-26-12-17-08-PM-qut-520x392.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The chalk wall at TwitchCon 2018 at the San Jose Convention Center. \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If anybody at TwitchCom 2018 was thinking about the two people killed and 11 injured in a mass shooting during a “Madden NFL” tournament in Jacksonville, Florida two months ago, nobody was talking about it with this reporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they were buzzing about safety and security \u003cem>online\u003c/em>: namely, troll control. Twitch is doing better supporting civility, says Miriam Aguirre. She’s a senior VP of engineering at \u003ca href=\"http://corp.skillz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skillz\u003c/a>, an mobile multiplayer competition platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre is speaking Sunday on a \u003ca href=\"https://twitchcon.com/schedule/women-in-gaming-how-to-break-the-cycle-of-underrepresentation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">panel\u003c/a> about the under-representation of women in gaming. She’s hoping people who left gaming because they felt unwelcome or unsafe in previous years consider coming back in 2018. She says the industry has grown increasingly sensitized to the need for tools like the one Twitch just unveiled, allowing streamers and moderators to see anybody’s chat rap sheet at a click.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these tools should have been made available early on, but I’m glad they’re finally getting around to it,” Aguirre says.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13843649/oh-the-humanity-twitchcon-draws-streaming-masses-to-san-jose","authors":["251"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_71","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_1119","arts_10318","arts_596","arts_4642","arts_1084","arts_3001","arts_5165"],"featImg":"arts_13843650","label":"arts"},"arts_13843523":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13843523","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13843523","score":null,"sort":[1540507907000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"womxn-art-handlers-carefully-deinstall-the-glass-ceiling-of-the-preparator-world","title":"Womxn* Art Handlers Carefully Deinstall Glass Ceiling of the Preparator World","publishDate":1540507907,"format":"image","headTitle":"Womxn* Art Handlers Carefully Deinstall Glass Ceiling of the Preparator World | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>On a recent Wednesday evening after hours at Jessica Silverman Gallery, a group of over a dozen art handlers sat in a circle on the floor describing how they ended up in this line of work—a largely invisible, yet integral part of the art industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some embellished resumes to gain access to entry-level jobs; others worked for free to pick up skills. Many described the delicate balancing act of juggling on-call jobs at multiple local art institutions alongside their own art practices. All were, first and foremost, artists hustling to make a living in the Bay Area economy. The mood was convivial and confessional, unguarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gathering took place under the auspices of \u003ca href=\"http://womenarthandlers.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Womxn* Art Handlers\u003c/a> (W*AH), a new Bay Area group dedicated to supporting women, people of color, queer and gender non-conforming individuals in the professional arts industry. Art handlers’ names may not be ones you see in vinyl on museum walls, but they’re the people who make sure that Magritte painting hangs just so, and that the sculpture you’re admiring has a pedestal to sit upon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13843545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-1200x801.jpg\" alt=\"Marcela Pardo Ariza and Kat Trataris at R/SF projects’ opening of 'Slow Clap' a solo show by Pardo Ariza.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-13843545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcela Pardo Ariza and Kat Trataris at R/SF projects’ opening of ‘Slow Clap’ a solo show by Pardo Ariza. \u003ccite>(Photo by Ben Hoffman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organizers \u003ca href=\"http://kaitlintrataris.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kat Trataris\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.marcelapardo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcela Pardo Ariza\u003c/a> officially launched the group \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/312696452588738/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Facebook\u003c/a> in March (which has become a de facto job board for W*AH) and organized the first meet-up in late May, but the idea’s been with them for years, ever since they ended up handling art as student workers at the San Francisco Art Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like such a good job and such a resource,” Trataris says of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10973249/artist-experiments-underwater-and-upside-down-at-sfai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her introduction\u003c/a> to work previously unknown to her. “I couldn’t believe how hidden and inaccessible it was, period—to anyone, much less anyone who wasn’t a cis white dude.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The world of prep (short for preparator) work, art handling, install and fabrication—all terms that generally describe various behind-the-scenes roles involved with the movement, installation and presentation of art—is a fairly closed one. In 2015, a \u003ca href=\"https://mellon.org/media/filer_public/ba/99/ba99e53a-48d5-4038-80e1-66f9ba1c020e/awmf_museum_diversity_report_aamd_7-28-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey\u003c/a> of diversity in American art museums found that only 15 percent of preparators and art handlers identify as non-white and only 25 percent identify as non-male.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a job that requires a plethora of skills (safe packing and transport of art, knowledge of hanging mechanisms, media player know-how, comfort with heights, construction experience, the list goes on) to prevent injury to art handlers or damage to often priceless pieces of art. But there’s no degree in art handling, Trataris says, so these specialized skills remain within a set group of people, and those doing the hiring often look to those people for recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the biggest problem, actually,” she says. “There’s no way to verify someone’s actual skill set, so basically it all becomes word of mouth. But then it’s the same five people circulating. How do you even put new blood into that situation?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With W*AH, Pardo Ariza and Trataris have a multi-pronged plan of attack. Regular mixers (they’ve held two since May) give art handlers the chance meet each other in an informal setting. Women and people of other gender identities can network and forge alliances in a field where they often find themselves alone on a team of men. Eventually, the organizers imagine these gatherings could become opportunities for hiring managers to scout talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13843549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1772px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13843549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop.jpg\" alt=\"The first W*AH Mixer at YBCA on May 30, 2018.\" width=\"1772\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop.jpg 1772w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-160x139.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-800x693.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-768x666.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-1020x884.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-1200x1040.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-1180x1023.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-960x832.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-240x208.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-375x325.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-520x451.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1772px) 100vw, 1772px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first W*AH Mixer at YBCA on May 30, 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of W*AH)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group is also dedicated to building knowledge, so that W*AH members can feel more confident in their art handling abilities and become more competitive candidates in the field. Trataris, who was one of the co-founders of the recently closed \u003ca href=\"http://rsfprojects.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R/SF projects\u003c/a>, staged an open install night at the gallery so W*AH members could watch the process from start to finish. In the spring, Pardo Ariza and Trataris will teach a free \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfai.edu/public-youth-education/public-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public education class\u003c/a> at SFAI, a series of four workshops covering art handling basics. It’s a curriculum they hope others, especially institutions, will adopt to make the field more accessible to a wider range of aspiring workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we’re talking about inclusivity and diversity in the workplace as something that \u003ci>must\u003c/i> happen—and I feel like a lot of places at least say that’s where they want to go—we also want to move away from tokenism,” says Pardo Ariza, who works in YBCA’s civic engagement department. “It’s not just having one woman preparator or one POC working there. It’s about actually making the place run by different peoples and bodies and abilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so important to have a diverse workplace,” says Trataris. “Communication styles and methods are better when you have a diverse group of people because you realize the limits of your own communication style. And better communication styles make for a more open work environment and make it easier on an international basis. I think it just makes a better prep world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“—or any world!” Pardo Ariza adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other events, such as a recent visit to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/library-archives/about-collections-center/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SFMOMA Collections Center\u003c/a> in South San Francisco give W*AH members rare access to the inner workings of the Bay Area art world. In the climate-controlled warehouse filled to the brim with crated and wrapped artwork, SFMOMA employees walked 15 art handlers through their approaches to staging, conditioning, conserving and shipping art. It was a p\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rivilege Trataris is fully aware of. She credits her own time working at the Collections Center as two years of pure art education—now she wants to share that breadth of knowledge with W*AH. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me it became all about figuring out how institutions work,” she says. “Being a preparator allowed me to explore what is a gallery, what is a museum, what is an art school, what is the Venice Biennale? I could understand the art world in a big scope through prep work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenges W*AH faces—of bringing new voices into a male-dominated workplace and breaking down old structures of gatekeeping—are not unique to the field of art handling, but Pardo Ariza and Trataris approach the task with a sense of purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ideally all these relationships we’re building are also artistic relationships,” Pardo Ariza says, “where we’re supporting each other’s work and we’re getting to know each other better. We’re creating a stronger community for all of us in a place where people are constantly moving away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their long-term goals include organizing art handlers to advocate for higher pay across the board. (At the most recent meet-up, those gathered listed pay rates at various Bay Area museums in the $20–25-per-hour range.) Trataris wants to see this type of physical labor credited in exhibition-making, alongside the names of curators or lending institutions, as equally important to the finished presentation. And ultimately, W*AH wants to change the industry completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean ideally-ideally—and I don’t know how many years this takes—it does so well it doesn’t have to exist anymore,” says Trataris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pardo Ariza agrees: “I think that was the mic-dropper.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new group seeks to support women, people of color, queer and gender non-conforming individuals in professional art industry roles.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705027093,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1303},"headData":{"title":"Womxn* Art Handlers Carefully Deinstall Glass Ceiling of the Preparator World | KQED","description":"A new group seeks to support women, people of color, queer and gender non-conforming individuals in professional art industry roles.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13843523/womxn-art-handlers-carefully-deinstall-the-glass-ceiling-of-the-preparator-world","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a recent Wednesday evening after hours at Jessica Silverman Gallery, a group of over a dozen art handlers sat in a circle on the floor describing how they ended up in this line of work—a largely invisible, yet integral part of the art industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some embellished resumes to gain access to entry-level jobs; others worked for free to pick up skills. Many described the delicate balancing act of juggling on-call jobs at multiple local art institutions alongside their own art practices. All were, first and foremost, artists hustling to make a living in the Bay Area economy. The mood was convivial and confessional, unguarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gathering took place under the auspices of \u003ca href=\"http://womenarthandlers.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Womxn* Art Handlers\u003c/a> (W*AH), a new Bay Area group dedicated to supporting women, people of color, queer and gender non-conforming individuals in the professional arts industry. Art handlers’ names may not be ones you see in vinyl on museum walls, but they’re the people who make sure that Magritte painting hangs just so, and that the sculpture you’re admiring has a pedestal to sit upon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13843545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-1200x801.jpg\" alt=\"Marcela Pardo Ariza and Kat Trataris at R/SF projects’ opening of 'Slow Clap' a solo show by Pardo Ariza.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-13843545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/12.-RSF_MPA_SlowClap_Opening_1200.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcela Pardo Ariza and Kat Trataris at R/SF projects’ opening of ‘Slow Clap’ a solo show by Pardo Ariza. \u003ccite>(Photo by Ben Hoffman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organizers \u003ca href=\"http://kaitlintrataris.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kat Trataris\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.marcelapardo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcela Pardo Ariza\u003c/a> officially launched the group \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/312696452588738/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Facebook\u003c/a> in March (which has become a de facto job board for W*AH) and organized the first meet-up in late May, but the idea’s been with them for years, ever since they ended up handling art as student workers at the San Francisco Art Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like such a good job and such a resource,” Trataris says of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10973249/artist-experiments-underwater-and-upside-down-at-sfai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her introduction\u003c/a> to work previously unknown to her. “I couldn’t believe how hidden and inaccessible it was, period—to anyone, much less anyone who wasn’t a cis white dude.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The world of prep (short for preparator) work, art handling, install and fabrication—all terms that generally describe various behind-the-scenes roles involved with the movement, installation and presentation of art—is a fairly closed one. In 2015, a \u003ca href=\"https://mellon.org/media/filer_public/ba/99/ba99e53a-48d5-4038-80e1-66f9ba1c020e/awmf_museum_diversity_report_aamd_7-28-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey\u003c/a> of diversity in American art museums found that only 15 percent of preparators and art handlers identify as non-white and only 25 percent identify as non-male.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a job that requires a plethora of skills (safe packing and transport of art, knowledge of hanging mechanisms, media player know-how, comfort with heights, construction experience, the list goes on) to prevent injury to art handlers or damage to often priceless pieces of art. But there’s no degree in art handling, Trataris says, so these specialized skills remain within a set group of people, and those doing the hiring often look to those people for recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the biggest problem, actually,” she says. “There’s no way to verify someone’s actual skill set, so basically it all becomes word of mouth. But then it’s the same five people circulating. How do you even put new blood into that situation?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With W*AH, Pardo Ariza and Trataris have a multi-pronged plan of attack. Regular mixers (they’ve held two since May) give art handlers the chance meet each other in an informal setting. Women and people of other gender identities can network and forge alliances in a field where they often find themselves alone on a team of men. Eventually, the organizers imagine these gatherings could become opportunities for hiring managers to scout talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13843549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1772px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13843549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop.jpg\" alt=\"The first W*AH Mixer at YBCA on May 30, 2018.\" width=\"1772\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop.jpg 1772w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-160x139.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-800x693.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-768x666.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-1020x884.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-1200x1040.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-1180x1023.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-960x832.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-240x208.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-375x325.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1.-YBCA-mixer_crop-520x451.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1772px) 100vw, 1772px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first W*AH Mixer at YBCA on May 30, 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of W*AH)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group is also dedicated to building knowledge, so that W*AH members can feel more confident in their art handling abilities and become more competitive candidates in the field. Trataris, who was one of the co-founders of the recently closed \u003ca href=\"http://rsfprojects.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R/SF projects\u003c/a>, staged an open install night at the gallery so W*AH members could watch the process from start to finish. In the spring, Pardo Ariza and Trataris will teach a free \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfai.edu/public-youth-education/public-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public education class\u003c/a> at SFAI, a series of four workshops covering art handling basics. It’s a curriculum they hope others, especially institutions, will adopt to make the field more accessible to a wider range of aspiring workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we’re talking about inclusivity and diversity in the workplace as something that \u003ci>must\u003c/i> happen—and I feel like a lot of places at least say that’s where they want to go—we also want to move away from tokenism,” says Pardo Ariza, who works in YBCA’s civic engagement department. “It’s not just having one woman preparator or one POC working there. It’s about actually making the place run by different peoples and bodies and abilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so important to have a diverse workplace,” says Trataris. “Communication styles and methods are better when you have a diverse group of people because you realize the limits of your own communication style. And better communication styles make for a more open work environment and make it easier on an international basis. I think it just makes a better prep world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“—or any world!” Pardo Ariza adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other events, such as a recent visit to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/library-archives/about-collections-center/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SFMOMA Collections Center\u003c/a> in South San Francisco give W*AH members rare access to the inner workings of the Bay Area art world. In the climate-controlled warehouse filled to the brim with crated and wrapped artwork, SFMOMA employees walked 15 art handlers through their approaches to staging, conditioning, conserving and shipping art. It was a p\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">rivilege Trataris is fully aware of. She credits her own time working at the Collections Center as two years of pure art education—now she wants to share that breadth of knowledge with W*AH. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me it became all about figuring out how institutions work,” she says. “Being a preparator allowed me to explore what is a gallery, what is a museum, what is an art school, what is the Venice Biennale? I could understand the art world in a big scope through prep work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenges W*AH faces—of bringing new voices into a male-dominated workplace and breaking down old structures of gatekeeping—are not unique to the field of art handling, but Pardo Ariza and Trataris approach the task with a sense of purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ideally all these relationships we’re building are also artistic relationships,” Pardo Ariza says, “where we’re supporting each other’s work and we’re getting to know each other better. We’re creating a stronger community for all of us in a place where people are constantly moving away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their long-term goals include organizing art handlers to advocate for higher pay across the board. (At the most recent meet-up, those gathered listed pay rates at various Bay Area museums in the $20–25-per-hour range.) Trataris wants to see this type of physical labor credited in exhibition-making, alongside the names of curators or lending institutions, as equally important to the finished presentation. And ultimately, W*AH wants to change the industry completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean ideally-ideally—and I don’t know how many years this takes—it does so well it doesn’t have to exist anymore,” says Trataris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pardo Ariza agrees: “I think that was the mic-dropper.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13843523/womxn-art-handlers-carefully-deinstall-the-glass-ceiling-of-the-preparator-world","authors":["61"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_235","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_1119","arts_1118","arts_5870","arts_5849","arts_596"],"featImg":"arts_13843543","label":"arts"},"arts_13841781":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13841781","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13841781","score":null,"sort":[1538146802000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"cathy-lus-peach-garden-steams-up-the-outer-sunset","title":"Cathy Lu’s ‘Peach Garden’ Steams up the Outer Sunset","publishDate":1538146802,"format":"image","headTitle":"Cathy Lu’s ‘Peach Garden’ Steams up the Outer Sunset | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Long before peaches came to mean—ahem—\u003ca href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/peach-emoji-%F0%9F%8D%91\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">something else\u003c/a>, they were Chinese symbols of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaches_of_Immortality\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">longevity and prosperity\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t really know about it growing up,” says ceramics artist \u003ca href=\"http://www.cathyclu.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cathy Lu\u003c/a> of the peach’s particular significance. She’s inside Irving Street Projects, where she’s currently an artist in residence, surrounded by a dozen oversized ceramic versions of the fruit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once I started looking more into Chinese art imagery and symbols, that’s when I realized it was everywhere,” she says. “It has this whole life in Chinese mythology, but then in America it’s like ‘Georgia peach’ and ‘sweet as a peach.’ So there’s these other, American and very gender-based ideas about peaches as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her sculptural peaches, each about a foot in height (taller when sitting atop coiled reddish-brown concrete stands), are not those impossibly round and clefted emoji versions of the fruit. First there’s the colors: Lu’s peaches come in soft yellows and pinks, but also sickly greens, bright blues polka-dotted with darker spots, and grayish purples. And then there’s the textures: they’re wrinkled and bumpy, pitted and interrupted with holes. “If I saw a peach that looked like this, I would not touch it,” Lu confesses. “It’s really gross.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n.jpg\" alt=\"Cathy Lu, Details of 'Peach Garden' at Irving Street Projects.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"766\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13841808\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-800x511.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-768x490.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-1020x651.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-960x613.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-240x153.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-375x239.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathy Lu, Details of ‘Peach Garden’ at Irving Street Projects. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Irving Street Projects)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the final installation, assembled for a \u003ca href=\"http://www.irvingstreetprojects.org/current/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closing reception\u003c/a> at Irving Street Projects this Sunday, Sept. 30, 3–6pm, humidifiers hidden inside the peaches’ bulbous bodies will push steamy air through those holes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up in Florida,” Lu says. “So when I think of outdoors, life is happening, things are growing, it’s sweating, it’s humid—things smell bad because it’s so humid. It’s intense.” The way we interact with plants in a city like San Francisco is so removed from that fetid, anything-goes climate, she says. “You go to the store and you buy this super cute succulent. It’s almost not real, it’s weird. That’s what we think of as gardens now—as soon as a plant starts to grow and get weird, people get rid of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lu’s peaches reject perfection in favor of weirdness. While the Heavenly Peach Garden of Chinese mythology and its biblical counterpart, the Garden of Eden, may be places of tranquility and escape, they’re also spaces preserved through rules, unquestioning ignorance and naiveté. And those principles, Lu says, aren’t always a good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying to play with those ideas to create my own version of a peach garden that’s mutated or fermenting,” she says. “But it’s also not necessarily bad or rotten; it’s different, it’s transformed in a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Cathy Lu at Irving Street Projects near the beginning of her three-month residency.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13841807\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathy Lu at Irving Street Projects near the beginning of her three-month residency. \u003ccite>(Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lu thinks a lot about how fruits and other produce move from the categories of “different” or “exotic” to become commonplace. “It’s been an interesting way to think about immigrants too,” she says. “When do certain immigrant groups or cultures become mainstream, and when do they remain ‘exotic’?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the political climate, I think I’ve been reflecting more on my own upbringing,” Lu says. Her family is from Taiwan; she grew up in Miami. “I feel like immigrants have to have a certain amount of creativity in order to understand and be in the world. Even just thinking about food. I need this ingredient but it’s not here. What can I do to replace that ingredient? Maybe I’ll do a similar method that I would have done in my home country, but with all new ingredients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She used this tactic within her own practice during a recent residency at Recology. Without clay (or a kiln), she found new ways to use centuries-old techniques on new, found materials, making coil-built vessels out of plastic tubing and electrical cables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792.jpg\" alt=\"Cathy Lu, 'Treasure Case,' 2016. The shelves reference a display in San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, a replica of a display shelf from the Forbidden Palace, PRC.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13841792\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathy Lu, ‘Treasure Case,’ 2016. The shelves reference a display in San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, a replica of a display shelf from the Forbidden Palace, PRC. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When she’s not limited by materials sourced from the dump, much of her practice involves casting fruits—delicately spiky jackfruits, bunches of bananas—in ceramic and arranging them based on traditional altar displays, supermarket presentations and shelving from China’s Forbidden City. The entire “garden” at Irving Street Projects sits on bricks laid atop the residency’s concrete floor, an aesthetic reference to neighborhood altars and temples found in the streets of Taiwan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ci>Peach Garden\u003c/i>, Lu’s peaches transform well beyond shelves of mainstream supermarket produce to become monstrous, almost alien forms. They don’t look palatable, they look alluring and powerful, like wizened symbols of longevity and prosperity that refuse to sit demurely on your supermarket shelf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Peach Garden’ is on view at Irving Street Projects (4331 Iriving Street, San Francisco) through Oct. 6, 2018, with a closing reception on Sept. 30, 3-6pm. \u003ca href=\"http://www.irvingstreetprojects.org/current/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The artist's monstrous yet alluring ceramic peaches transform Irving Street Projects into a humid, fermenting garden. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705027195,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":937},"headData":{"title":"Cathy Lu’s ‘Peach Garden’ Steams up the Outer Sunset | KQED","description":"The artist's monstrous yet alluring ceramic peaches transform Irving Street Projects into a humid, fermenting garden. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13841781/cathy-lus-peach-garden-steams-up-the-outer-sunset","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Long before peaches came to mean—ahem—\u003ca href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/peach-emoji-%F0%9F%8D%91\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">something else\u003c/a>, they were Chinese symbols of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaches_of_Immortality\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">longevity and prosperity\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t really know about it growing up,” says ceramics artist \u003ca href=\"http://www.cathyclu.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cathy Lu\u003c/a> of the peach’s particular significance. She’s inside Irving Street Projects, where she’s currently an artist in residence, surrounded by a dozen oversized ceramic versions of the fruit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once I started looking more into Chinese art imagery and symbols, that’s when I realized it was everywhere,” she says. “It has this whole life in Chinese mythology, but then in America it’s like ‘Georgia peach’ and ‘sweet as a peach.’ So there’s these other, American and very gender-based ideas about peaches as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her sculptural peaches, each about a foot in height (taller when sitting atop coiled reddish-brown concrete stands), are not those impossibly round and clefted emoji versions of the fruit. First there’s the colors: Lu’s peaches come in soft yellows and pinks, but also sickly greens, bright blues polka-dotted with darker spots, and grayish purples. And then there’s the textures: they’re wrinkled and bumpy, pitted and interrupted with holes. “If I saw a peach that looked like this, I would not touch it,” Lu confesses. “It’s really gross.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n.jpg\" alt=\"Cathy Lu, Details of 'Peach Garden' at Irving Street Projects.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"766\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13841808\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-800x511.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-768x490.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-1020x651.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-1180x753.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-960x613.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-240x153.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-375x239.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/PeachGarde1200n-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathy Lu, Details of ‘Peach Garden’ at Irving Street Projects. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Irving Street Projects)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the final installation, assembled for a \u003ca href=\"http://www.irvingstreetprojects.org/current/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closing reception\u003c/a> at Irving Street Projects this Sunday, Sept. 30, 3–6pm, humidifiers hidden inside the peaches’ bulbous bodies will push steamy air through those holes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up in Florida,” Lu says. “So when I think of outdoors, life is happening, things are growing, it’s sweating, it’s humid—things smell bad because it’s so humid. It’s intense.” The way we interact with plants in a city like San Francisco is so removed from that fetid, anything-goes climate, she says. “You go to the store and you buy this super cute succulent. It’s almost not real, it’s weird. That’s what we think of as gardens now—as soon as a plant starts to grow and get weird, people get rid of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lu’s peaches reject perfection in favor of weirdness. While the Heavenly Peach Garden of Chinese mythology and its biblical counterpart, the Garden of Eden, may be places of tranquility and escape, they’re also spaces preserved through rules, unquestioning ignorance and naiveté. And those principles, Lu says, aren’t always a good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying to play with those ideas to create my own version of a peach garden that’s mutated or fermenting,” she says. “But it’s also not necessarily bad or rotten; it’s different, it’s transformed in a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Cathy Lu at Irving Street Projects near the beginning of her three-month residency.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13841807\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/CathyISP_1200-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathy Lu at Irving Street Projects near the beginning of her three-month residency. \u003ccite>(Sarah Hotchkiss/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lu thinks a lot about how fruits and other produce move from the categories of “different” or “exotic” to become commonplace. “It’s been an interesting way to think about immigrants too,” she says. “When do certain immigrant groups or cultures become mainstream, and when do they remain ‘exotic’?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the political climate, I think I’ve been reflecting more on my own upbringing,” Lu says. Her family is from Taiwan; she grew up in Miami. “I feel like immigrants have to have a certain amount of creativity in order to understand and be in the world. Even just thinking about food. I need this ingredient but it’s not here. What can I do to replace that ingredient? Maybe I’ll do a similar method that I would have done in my home country, but with all new ingredients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She used this tactic within her own practice during a recent residency at Recology. Without clay (or a kiln), she found new ways to use centuries-old techniques on new, found materials, making coil-built vessels out of plastic tubing and electrical cables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13841792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792.jpg\" alt=\"Cathy Lu, 'Treasure Case,' 2016. The shelves reference a display in San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, a replica of a display shelf from the Forbidden Palace, PRC.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13841792\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/faccec117976eece-IMG_21792-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathy Lu, ‘Treasure Case,’ 2016. The shelves reference a display in San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, a replica of a display shelf from the Forbidden Palace, PRC. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When she’s not limited by materials sourced from the dump, much of her practice involves casting fruits—delicately spiky jackfruits, bunches of bananas—in ceramic and arranging them based on traditional altar displays, supermarket presentations and shelving from China’s Forbidden City. The entire “garden” at Irving Street Projects sits on bricks laid atop the residency’s concrete floor, an aesthetic reference to neighborhood altars and temples found in the streets of Taiwan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ci>Peach Garden\u003c/i>, Lu’s peaches transform well beyond shelves of mainstream supermarket produce to become monstrous, almost alien forms. They don’t look palatable, they look alluring and powerful, like wizened symbols of longevity and prosperity that refuse to sit demurely on your supermarket shelf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Peach Garden’ is on view at Irving Street Projects (4331 Iriving Street, San Francisco) through Oct. 6, 2018, with a closing reception on Sept. 30, 3-6pm. \u003ca href=\"http://www.irvingstreetprojects.org/current/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13841781/cathy-lus-peach-garden-steams-up-the-outer-sunset","authors":["61"],"categories":["arts_835","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_1119","arts_1118","arts_596","arts_901"],"featImg":"arts_13841810","label":"arts"},"arts_13840309":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13840309","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13840309","score":null,"sort":[1536174042000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"for-the-one-and-only-rexy-the-best-is-yet-to-come","title":"For The One and Only Rexy, the Best is Yet to Come","publishDate":1536174042,"format":"image","headTitle":"For The One and Only Rexy, the Best is Yet to Come | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":5109,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Rexy Tapia may have the best coming out story I’ve ever heard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the late aughts at Horace Mann Middle School. On stage, she’s reading a poem announcing her sexual orientation to her classmates at one of the school’s first-ever pride assemblies. The Lady Gaga look-alike contest is about to begin. And then a fairy drag uncle appears. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, a classmate’s uncle (who also happens to be a drag queen) finds Rexy backstage and in a whirlwind of activity, puts her into a wig, pooh-poohs her dress, pulls a different sparkly gown over her head and pushes the first-time drag queen through the curtain as the strains of “Born This Way” fill the room. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t planned, I didn’t even know it was happening until it happened,” she tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She came out as gay and did drag for the first time, all in the span of one middle-school assembly? “Does anyone else have a story like that?” I ask the now-21-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think so!” Rexy sing-songs back to me. And that wouldn’t be her only coming out story either—she came out as transgender after high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200.jpg\" alt=\"The One and Only Rexy.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The One and Only Rexy. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The One and Only Rexy, as she’s known in drag circles, really is one of a kind. When she talks about herself, her life and her causes, she is unceasingly optimistic. Today she works for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gsanetwork.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GSA Network\u003c/a> as a Northern California youth organizer, teaching future generations of LGBTQ youth and their allies how to build coalitions, fight oppression and demand their rights. She’s the drag mother of The One and Only House, ushering four drag daughters, some still in their teens, onto the scene. And she’s the co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/212805929321783/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DragTivism\u003c/a>, a mentorship program that teaches trans and queer youth about the radical power of drag. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Rexy is an unapologetic queer leader. And she has been since the first day I knew her,” says Taica Hsu, a math and computer science teacher at Mission High School who also performs drag as Honda Hybrid. After Horace Mann, Rexy spent a year at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of The Arts. But while she found the school gay-friendly, it was, she says, “not very trans-friendly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very truant at the beginning of high school,” Rexy remembers. Part of what brought her to Mission High School at the start of her sophomore year was the school’s GSA, which put on a drag show that Rexy attended while she was still at SOTA. Mission is also the spiritual home of \u003ca href=\"https://www.queensofthecastro.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queens of the Castro\u003c/a>, a group of drag performers—including Hsu—who mentor, empower and support LGBTQ youth, put on drag shows and raise money for \u003ca href=\"https://www.queensofthecastro.com/scholarships/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scholarships\u003c/a>. (Since the group started in 2011, they’ve awarded over $75,000 in $2,000 increments to queer students and young adults.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Mission, Rexy joined the GSA (serving as president for her junior and senior years) and the principal’s advisory council, becoming a vocal advocate for not just queer and ESL students (she was born in Mexico and until recently, was undocumented), but the student population as a whole. “She really stood up for safe space and respect and brought people together in a magical and loving way,” Hsu remembers. “It made our school a better place for everyone. She taught teachers and students alike how to be allies.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And within that hard-won safe space, Rexy was figuring out her own identity. “I first started thinking about myself as a gay boy who did drag,” Rexy says. “And it was because of drag that I found my trans identity.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Rexy strikes a pose at City Hall.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rexy strikes a pose at City Hall. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Eventually I started dressing up to go to school. Whenever I wanted to feel really good I’d go in drag,” she says. After graduating from high school in 2015, she took a step back and looked at the role drag was playing in her life. “I was like, ‘Why am I always in drag? Why do I feel the best in drag?’ Being in my most feminine state helped me feel better about my gender and myself,” she says. “And so I came out as trans.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onstage as The One and Only, Rexy is still Rexy, just with the volume turned up. “She’s very unapologetic, radical, very sexually liberated, very body-positive,” Rexy says. “Very trans, but like also kind of old school. I do love old school drag pageants and big hair, glitter and beautiful gowns, high heels, corset, padding, all the shenanigans. But I also love a good old number where it’s like a piece of duct tape and a prayer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her commitment to performing, no matter what the circumstances, even won her the title of Miss Royal Baby from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfducal.org/reigning-court\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Ducal Council of San Francisco\u003c/a> last year. Still too young to enter the bar and perform, Rexy decided to do it anyway—just outside on the sidewalk. “People saw me through the window. And then, the bar’s kind of empty because everyone’s outside and strangers are stopping to watch,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Rexy at and the stanchions at City Hall.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840314\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rexy at and the stanchions at City Hall. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Rexy, drag isn’t just a form of entertainment, it’s about rebellion and visibility. This is the framework for DragTivism, co-founded with Grace Towers, one of the drag performers behind Queens of the Castro, which held a three-day event at the San Francisco LGBT Center in late June. In the workshops, the organizers use the steps of getting into drag as metaphors for building an effective activist movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drag is out there and everyone’s doing it and it can be whatever,” Rexy says, “but for me it’s very important to bring it back to why drag is so vital to the movement, thinking back to Stonewall and Compton’s Cafeteria. Those movements were started by trans women and drag queens. If it wasn’t for femininity, we wouldn’t be anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent gains for the LGBTQ population, like gay marriage, Rexy says, are just little parts of a larger ongoing movement. “We’re in a space right now where we still need to be resilient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about her goals for the future, Rexy has a two-point answer, because of course she does. “One thing that I’m really working on and I want to make happen as soon as possible is a queer Latinx-specific party that’s ongoing. Not just once in a blue moon, but like an ongoing, weekly night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And? “I want to have a drag youth show.” She remembers Ain’t Mama’s Drag, an all-ages, no-cover show that used to happen at the now-closed Mission club Balançoire. “I want to bring that back. And bring it back on a day that’s not like a Monday or a Tuesday, but a weekend. Where youth can go and have fun and not be pressured to sneak into a club or drink or do drugs. Where they can just go and dance and have fun and express themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds like, as Rexy says about her own drag performances, “the best is yet to come.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13835025\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-768x75.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-375x37.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-520x51.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The 21-year-old trans activist and drag performer connects today's drag to a legacy of rebellion and resistance. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705027285,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1324},"headData":{"title":"For The One and Only Rexy, the Best is Yet to Come | KQED","description":"The 21-year-old trans activist and drag performer connects today's drag to a legacy of rebellion and resistance. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13840309/for-the-one-and-only-rexy-the-best-is-yet-to-come","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Rexy Tapia may have the best coming out story I’ve ever heard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the late aughts at Horace Mann Middle School. On stage, she’s reading a poem announcing her sexual orientation to her classmates at one of the school’s first-ever pride assemblies. The Lady Gaga look-alike contest is about to begin. And then a fairy drag uncle appears. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, a classmate’s uncle (who also happens to be a drag queen) finds Rexy backstage and in a whirlwind of activity, puts her into a wig, pooh-poohs her dress, pulls a different sparkly gown over her head and pushes the first-time drag queen through the curtain as the strains of “Born This Way” fill the room. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t planned, I didn’t even know it was happening until it happened,” she tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She came out as gay and did drag for the first time, all in the span of one middle-school assembly? “Does anyone else have a story like that?” I ask the now-21-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think so!” Rexy sing-songs back to me. And that wouldn’t be her only coming out story either—she came out as transgender after high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200.jpg\" alt=\"The One and Only Rexy.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840316\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_6_1200-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The One and Only Rexy. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The One and Only Rexy, as she’s known in drag circles, really is one of a kind. When she talks about herself, her life and her causes, she is unceasingly optimistic. Today she works for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gsanetwork.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GSA Network\u003c/a> as a Northern California youth organizer, teaching future generations of LGBTQ youth and their allies how to build coalitions, fight oppression and demand their rights. She’s the drag mother of The One and Only House, ushering four drag daughters, some still in their teens, onto the scene. And she’s the co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/212805929321783/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DragTivism\u003c/a>, a mentorship program that teaches trans and queer youth about the radical power of drag. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Rexy is an unapologetic queer leader. And she has been since the first day I knew her,” says Taica Hsu, a math and computer science teacher at Mission High School who also performs drag as Honda Hybrid. After Horace Mann, Rexy spent a year at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of The Arts. But while she found the school gay-friendly, it was, she says, “not very trans-friendly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very truant at the beginning of high school,” Rexy remembers. Part of what brought her to Mission High School at the start of her sophomore year was the school’s GSA, which put on a drag show that Rexy attended while she was still at SOTA. Mission is also the spiritual home of \u003ca href=\"https://www.queensofthecastro.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queens of the Castro\u003c/a>, a group of drag performers—including Hsu—who mentor, empower and support LGBTQ youth, put on drag shows and raise money for \u003ca href=\"https://www.queensofthecastro.com/scholarships/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scholarships\u003c/a>. (Since the group started in 2011, they’ve awarded over $75,000 in $2,000 increments to queer students and young adults.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Mission, Rexy joined the GSA (serving as president for her junior and senior years) and the principal’s advisory council, becoming a vocal advocate for not just queer and ESL students (she was born in Mexico and until recently, was undocumented), but the student population as a whole. “She really stood up for safe space and respect and brought people together in a magical and loving way,” Hsu remembers. “It made our school a better place for everyone. She taught teachers and students alike how to be allies.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And within that hard-won safe space, Rexy was figuring out her own identity. “I first started thinking about myself as a gay boy who did drag,” Rexy says. “And it was because of drag that I found my trans identity.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Rexy strikes a pose at City Hall.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_3_1200-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rexy strikes a pose at City Hall. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Eventually I started dressing up to go to school. Whenever I wanted to feel really good I’d go in drag,” she says. After graduating from high school in 2015, she took a step back and looked at the role drag was playing in her life. “I was like, ‘Why am I always in drag? Why do I feel the best in drag?’ Being in my most feminine state helped me feel better about my gender and myself,” she says. “And so I came out as trans.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onstage as The One and Only, Rexy is still Rexy, just with the volume turned up. “She’s very unapologetic, radical, very sexually liberated, very body-positive,” Rexy says. “Very trans, but like also kind of old school. I do love old school drag pageants and big hair, glitter and beautiful gowns, high heels, corset, padding, all the shenanigans. But I also love a good old number where it’s like a piece of duct tape and a prayer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her commitment to performing, no matter what the circumstances, even won her the title of Miss Royal Baby from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfducal.org/reigning-court\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Ducal Council of San Francisco\u003c/a> last year. Still too young to enter the bar and perform, Rexy decided to do it anyway—just outside on the sidewalk. “People saw me through the window. And then, the bar’s kind of empty because everyone’s outside and strangers are stopping to watch,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Rexy at and the stanchions at City Hall.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840314\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/KQED_Rexy_Amaral_Graham_Holoch_2_1200-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rexy at and the stanchions at City Hall. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Rexy, drag isn’t just a form of entertainment, it’s about rebellion and visibility. This is the framework for DragTivism, co-founded with Grace Towers, one of the drag performers behind Queens of the Castro, which held a three-day event at the San Francisco LGBT Center in late June. In the workshops, the organizers use the steps of getting into drag as metaphors for building an effective activist movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drag is out there and everyone’s doing it and it can be whatever,” Rexy says, “but for me it’s very important to bring it back to why drag is so vital to the movement, thinking back to Stonewall and Compton’s Cafeteria. Those movements were started by trans women and drag queens. If it wasn’t for femininity, we wouldn’t be anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent gains for the LGBTQ population, like gay marriage, Rexy says, are just little parts of a larger ongoing movement. “We’re in a space right now where we still need to be resilient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about her goals for the future, Rexy has a two-point answer, because of course she does. “One thing that I’m really working on and I want to make happen as soon as possible is a queer Latinx-specific party that’s ongoing. Not just once in a blue moon, but like an ongoing, weekly night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And? “I want to have a drag youth show.” She remembers Ain’t Mama’s Drag, an all-ages, no-cover show that used to happen at the now-closed Mission club Balançoire. “I want to bring that back. And bring it back on a day that’s not like a Monday or a Tuesday, but a weekend. Where youth can go and have fun and not be pressured to sneak into a club or drink or do drugs. Where they can just go and dance and have fun and express themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds like, as Rexy says about her own drag performances, “the best is yet to come.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13835025\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-768x75.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-375x37.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/Compact_Logo_Break-520x51.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13840309/for-the-one-and-only-rexy-the-best-is-yet-to-come","authors":["61"],"series":["arts_5109"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_966","arts_1003"],"tags":["arts_3547","arts_5133","arts_1556","arts_1119","arts_1118","arts_596"],"featImg":"arts_13840312","label":"arts_5109"},"arts_13839923":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13839923","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13839923","score":null,"sort":[1536087605000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"redefining-pride-for-nicolas-gonzalez-medina-printmaking-is-protest","title":"Redefining Pride: For Nicólas González-Medina, Printmaking is Protest","publishDate":1536087605,"format":"image","headTitle":"Redefining Pride: For Nicólas González-Medina, Printmaking is Protest | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ci>Welcome to KQED Arts’ \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/redefining-pride\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Redefining Pride: The East Bay’s Queer Artists\u003c/a>\u003ci>, a series highlighting the work of queer-identified artists in Oakland and Berkeley. Through printmaking, photography, filmmaking and interdisciplinary work, these visual artists celebrate people, histories and causes often sidelined within mainstream presentations of the queer community.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may have seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.nicolasgonzalezmedina.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicólas González-Medina\u003c/a>’s art without realizing it. It’s been wheat-pasted on East Bay buildings, posted in storefront windows, painted as colorful murals and held above the heads of a crowd at a recent \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/vxN4ANd0-R8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demonstration\u003c/a> for immigration rights. His work is also placed proudly above the bustling open kitchen of Cosecha, one of Old Oakland’s most popular restaurants in Swan’s Market, where two woodblock prints feature faces with text surrounding them: “Defend DACA” and “DREAMERS have courage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one of those prints is signed by González-Medina, and even then, you might strain to read it. For a political artist whose work comfortably moves through radically different types of spaces, González-Medina isn’t so concerned with authorship. “When we talk about decolonizing, it really means recognition comes second,” he says. “Or not even second—for some of us, it’s not even a thing, because we’re just so focused on the work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13839931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-800x486.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-800x486.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-768x467.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-1020x620.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-1200x730.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-960x584.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-240x146.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-375x228.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-520x316.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933.jpg 1725w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet his prints—along with his murals and wood sculptures—are distinct and recognizable, once you know what to look for: solid, firm lines defining faces that hold your gaze from their realm of ink and paper, and marks that are inseparable from the hand that made them. When using traditional woodblock techniques, he freehand carves each face—a type of self-assured trust in spontaneity not typically associated with printmaking’s precision. González-Medina’s artwork conveys the urgency of their making, standing out in an age of overly slick digital illustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With powerful figures rooted in indigenous representation and concise statements speaking to the courage of undocumented immigrants, educators and water protectors, González-Medina’s artwork sits uncompromisingly in the position of political art. And Oakland gave him the strength to find and hold firm to that ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Nicólas González-Medina in his home studio.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicólas González-Medina in his home studio. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though he has actively created art since childhood, González-Medina didn’t claim the title of “artist” until he moved to the Bay Area from Chicago in 2013. Before then, he identified more strongly as an activist, working closely within immigrant youth organizing, and joining a nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/nico-gonzalez/a-walk-across-america_b_1397217.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3,000-mile-long walk\u003c/a> across the country in 2012 to support the DREAM Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an activist, he also participated in one of the first “coming out of the shadows” demonstrations in Chicago in 2010, part of a movement to be publically “out” about one’s status as an undocumented immigrant. He and seven other activists chose to speak up about being “undocumented and unafraid” in public. In that moment, their actions articulated the urgent need for undocumented people to be the ones speaking up for themselves. Even at the personal risk of deportation, they could no longer allow others—including immigrants’ rights activists—to represent them in the public sphere and make decisions for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1.jpg\" alt=\"González-Medina's woodcuts for printmaking.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">González-Medina’s woodcuts for printmaking. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although “coming out” has clear associations for LGBTQ communities, the action can be layered twofold for queer undocumented people. “I am Undocumented and Unafraid, Queer and Unashamed,” González-Medina \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/nico-gonzalez/a-walk-across-america_b_1397217.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> in 2012. He identifies as UndocuQueer—a phrase which signals not only the “out” status of both identities, but also indicates a move to intentionally advocate for the importance of that intersection in both queer and immigrant activist spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of political work in Chicago, González-Medina found himself burned out and questioning what to do and where to go next. “I was so focused on organizing [actions] and traveling and speaking here, being involved in civil disobedience actions as well—[I was] not making art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked himself, “‘What would I be doing right now if I had papers, if I was documented? What would I be doing instead of fighting all the time, fighting these anti-immigrant legislators, and people who lobby against us?’ It was like, ‘I want to do art.’ I was making art all my life, but I never called myself an artist until I moved here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200.jpg\" alt=\"González-Medina's home studio in Oakland.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">González-Medina’s home studio in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A pivotal moment for González-Medina was seeing Oakland-based \u003ca href=\"http://favianna.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Favianna Rodriguez\u003c/a>’s work on view at the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago. Seeing her poster art laid out on the first floor of one of the biggest libraries in his home city opened up a new path for him. In that experience, González-Medina says, “something happened. [I thought], ‘This is an artist not from Chicago, and she has an art show here! I want to do this, too.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After visiting Oakland several times while doing cross-country political organizing, González-Medina felt pulled back to the region with a sense that he wasn’t quite done with The Town yet. When he moved to the East Bay five years ago, he realized what Oakland could provide: “I discovered it was finding myself as a political artist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13839930\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13839930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-520x390.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Nicólas González-Medina.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He began working at \u003ca href=\"https://solespace.myshopify.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOLESpace\u003c/a>, a shoe store co-owned by Rodriguez that also functions as a gallery and community center. The more immersed he became within a community that doesn’t separate art from political beliefs, the more González-Medina saw himself reflected back in that community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason he previously hesitated to identify himself as an artist was also now clear. “I didn’t go to art school, so it’s kind of like having that disconnect from the art world. And then [I found] the art world that I surround myself with, which is other people who also didn’t get that education,” he says. “Once I met a few political artists, that’s when I was like, I think that’s what I need to do. I have been doing it ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>True to this vision, this shift into prioritizing his practice as artist never meant leaving behind his political work. “My driving force is that every day, undocumented people are getting deported, that children in cages is not something that happened this year—it’s been happening for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840103\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Works in progress in González-Medina's home studio.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Works in progress in González-Medina’s home studio. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In González-Medina’s artwork, he not only incorporates political messages, he intentionally portrays indigenous people, consciously thinking about the impacts of colonialism on representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I talk about some of the murals I paint, I draw indigenous people with headdresses, really brown, with tattoos, because that’s the history that they tried to erase,” he says. “I am here somehow, I survived through all of that! As long as I am here, I am going to use my voice, and now I’ve learned to use it another way, not just through talking, but through visual art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Nicólas González-Medina’s work is on view through mid-September at \u003ca href=\"https://www.e14gallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">E14 Gallery\u003c/a>. He’s working on a window-front installation for Día de Los Muertos, inspired by the women water protectors at Standing Rock, on Broadway and 9th this fall.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"His artwork sits uncompromisingly in the position of political art—and Oakland gave him the strength to find and hold firm to that ground.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705027292,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1354},"headData":{"title":"Redefining Pride: For Nicólas González-Medina, Printmaking is Protest | KQED","description":"His artwork sits uncompromisingly in the position of political art—and Oakland gave him the strength to find and hold firm to that ground.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13839923/redefining-pride-for-nicolas-gonzalez-medina-printmaking-is-protest","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>Welcome to KQED Arts’ \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/redefining-pride\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Redefining Pride: The East Bay’s Queer Artists\u003c/a>\u003ci>, a series highlighting the work of queer-identified artists in Oakland and Berkeley. Through printmaking, photography, filmmaking and interdisciplinary work, these visual artists celebrate people, histories and causes often sidelined within mainstream presentations of the queer community.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may have seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.nicolasgonzalezmedina.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicólas González-Medina\u003c/a>’s art without realizing it. It’s been wheat-pasted on East Bay buildings, posted in storefront windows, painted as colorful murals and held above the heads of a crowd at a recent \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/vxN4ANd0-R8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demonstration\u003c/a> for immigration rights. His work is also placed proudly above the bustling open kitchen of Cosecha, one of Old Oakland’s most popular restaurants in Swan’s Market, where two woodblock prints feature faces with text surrounding them: “Defend DACA” and “DREAMERS have courage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one of those prints is signed by González-Medina, and even then, you might strain to read it. For a political artist whose work comfortably moves through radically different types of spaces, González-Medina isn’t so concerned with authorship. “When we talk about decolonizing, it really means recognition comes second,” he says. “Or not even second—for some of us, it’s not even a thing, because we’re just so focused on the work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13839931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-800x486.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-800x486.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-768x467.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-1020x620.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-1200x730.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-960x584.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-240x146.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-375x228.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933-520x316.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4473-e1535569913933.jpg 1725w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet his prints—along with his murals and wood sculptures—are distinct and recognizable, once you know what to look for: solid, firm lines defining faces that hold your gaze from their realm of ink and paper, and marks that are inseparable from the hand that made them. When using traditional woodblock techniques, he freehand carves each face—a type of self-assured trust in spontaneity not typically associated with printmaking’s precision. González-Medina’s artwork conveys the urgency of their making, standing out in an age of overly slick digital illustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With powerful figures rooted in indigenous representation and concise statements speaking to the courage of undocumented immigrants, educators and water protectors, González-Medina’s artwork sits uncompromisingly in the position of political art. And Oakland gave him the strength to find and hold firm to that ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Nicólas González-Medina in his home studio.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_10_1200-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicólas González-Medina in his home studio. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though he has actively created art since childhood, González-Medina didn’t claim the title of “artist” until he moved to the Bay Area from Chicago in 2013. Before then, he identified more strongly as an activist, working closely within immigrant youth organizing, and joining a nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/nico-gonzalez/a-walk-across-america_b_1397217.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3,000-mile-long walk\u003c/a> across the country in 2012 to support the DREAM Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an activist, he also participated in one of the first “coming out of the shadows” demonstrations in Chicago in 2010, part of a movement to be publically “out” about one’s status as an undocumented immigrant. He and seven other activists chose to speak up about being “undocumented and unafraid” in public. In that moment, their actions articulated the urgent need for undocumented people to be the ones speaking up for themselves. Even at the personal risk of deportation, they could no longer allow others—including immigrants’ rights activists—to represent them in the public sphere and make decisions for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840100\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1.jpg\" alt=\"González-Medina's woodcuts for printmaking.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_11_1200-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">González-Medina’s woodcuts for printmaking. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although “coming out” has clear associations for LGBTQ communities, the action can be layered twofold for queer undocumented people. “I am Undocumented and Unafraid, Queer and Unashamed,” González-Medina \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/nico-gonzalez/a-walk-across-america_b_1397217.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> in 2012. He identifies as UndocuQueer—a phrase which signals not only the “out” status of both identities, but also indicates a move to intentionally advocate for the importance of that intersection in both queer and immigrant activist spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of political work in Chicago, González-Medina found himself burned out and questioning what to do and where to go next. “I was so focused on organizing [actions] and traveling and speaking here, being involved in civil disobedience actions as well—[I was] not making art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked himself, “‘What would I be doing right now if I had papers, if I was documented? What would I be doing instead of fighting all the time, fighting these anti-immigrant legislators, and people who lobby against us?’ It was like, ‘I want to do art.’ I was making art all my life, but I never called myself an artist until I moved here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200.jpg\" alt=\"González-Medina's home studio in Oakland.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_12_1200-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">González-Medina’s home studio in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A pivotal moment for González-Medina was seeing Oakland-based \u003ca href=\"http://favianna.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Favianna Rodriguez\u003c/a>’s work on view at the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago. Seeing her poster art laid out on the first floor of one of the biggest libraries in his home city opened up a new path for him. In that experience, González-Medina says, “something happened. [I thought], ‘This is an artist not from Chicago, and she has an art show here! I want to do this, too.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After visiting Oakland several times while doing cross-country political organizing, González-Medina felt pulled back to the region with a sense that he wasn’t quite done with The Town yet. When he moved to the East Bay five years ago, he realized what Oakland could provide: “I discovered it was finding myself as a political artist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13839930\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13839930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336-520x390.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/IMG_4336.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Nicólas González-Medina.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He began working at \u003ca href=\"https://solespace.myshopify.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOLESpace\u003c/a>, a shoe store co-owned by Rodriguez that also functions as a gallery and community center. The more immersed he became within a community that doesn’t separate art from political beliefs, the more González-Medina saw himself reflected back in that community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason he previously hesitated to identify himself as an artist was also now clear. “I didn’t go to art school, so it’s kind of like having that disconnect from the art world. And then [I found] the art world that I surround myself with, which is other people who also didn’t get that education,” he says. “Once I met a few political artists, that’s when I was like, I think that’s what I need to do. I have been doing it ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>True to this vision, this shift into prioritizing his practice as artist never meant leaving behind his political work. “My driving force is that every day, undocumented people are getting deported, that children in cages is not something that happened this year—it’s been happening for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840103\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Works in progress in González-Medina's home studio.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/Nico_Medina_Graham_Holoch_KQED_5_1200-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Works in progress in González-Medina’s home studio. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In González-Medina’s artwork, he not only incorporates political messages, he intentionally portrays indigenous people, consciously thinking about the impacts of colonialism on representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I talk about some of the murals I paint, I draw indigenous people with headdresses, really brown, with tattoos, because that’s the history that they tried to erase,” he says. “I am here somehow, I survived through all of that! As long as I am here, I am going to use my voice, and now I’ve learned to use it another way, not just through talking, but through visual art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Nicólas González-Medina’s work is on view through mid-September at \u003ca href=\"https://www.e14gallery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">E14 Gallery\u003c/a>. He’s working on a window-front installation for Día de Los Muertos, inspired by the women water protectors at Standing Rock, on Broadway and 9th this fall.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13839923/redefining-pride-for-nicolas-gonzalez-medina-printmaking-is-protest","authors":["8623"],"categories":["arts_70"],"tags":["arts_1119","arts_1118","arts_596","arts_5158"],"featImg":"arts_13840089","label":"arts"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. 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