Vaguely unrelated exhibition from me and Irene (come play with a difficult ping pong table and a functional Korean seesaw!)

Hello!!!! Irene and I have been really preoccupied with installing a group exhibition that’s finally up in Tjaden Hall and gets deinstalled Saturday afternoon – but we just wanted to share the info and invite folks to visit for the one remaining day!

We’ve built a somewhat immersive installation that ties together some loose thoughts (mostly anxieties) vaguely about gender formation in East Asian / East Asian American contexts, through a short ping/beer-pong table, a neolttwigi (Korean seesaw), a large wall, sports equipment, and generous amounts of straw. Our friends Jerai Wilson and Jordan Kelly have also contributed two ongoing paintings to the show!

We’d love to give anyone a walkthrough and hear your thoughts on our work – all reads of our work are totally valid and really valuable – or at least play some dysfunctional ping pong or use the seesaw. We’ll be in Tjaden Hall (the red building in the AAP corner of the Arts Quad) documenting our stuff from 11 to 5 today (Friday) – please feel free to come by, we’d be delighted!

Tjaden Hall is lift accessible by the parking lot side of the building; our gallery also now has a distinct straw scent, should you have any dust/scent sensitivities. Please let Irene or I know if you have any questions or there are any accommodations we can make – hope to see you there!

 

 

Song for Exit West

You and Me Forever at Last – Yozoh

Sky at the end of the wind

The sea at the end of the sky

Land at the end of the sea

Eyes closed

Without end

Without end

Without end

Without end

You and me

You and me

You and me

You and me

Sky at the end of the wind

The sea at the end of the sky

Land at the end of the sea

Eyes closed

Without end

Without end

Without end

Without end

You and me

You and me

You and me

You and me

The focused calm and simplicity of this song strongly reminded me of the conversation we had about asyndeton and its usage in Exit West. There are deliberate omissions, gaps and silences throughout the intertwining stories of Nadia and Saeed—they attempt to forge their own intimacy and peace within so much surrounding chaos. This becomes the key to their escape from a fraught society that is bound with limitations, and together they share an imagination of the beyond — “sky at the end of the wind, the sea at the end of the sky, land at the end of the sea”….with their ”eyes closed”, they were hopeful for a different place “without end”.