About this Event
The event will run from 1 to 3 pm, with the talk beginning at 1:30.
Centered around Stephanie Syjuco's recently released monograph, "The Unruly Archive," published by Radius Books, this event will feature an enlightening conversation between Syjuco and artist and contributor Astria Suparak, moderated by Matthew Villar Miranda, Curatorial Associate at BAMPFA.
The event is hosted and produced by EXiT and Catharine Clark Gallery. It is free and open to the public, but we kindly request that you RSVP.
"The Unruly Archive" is currently available for purchase. You can order a copy online or in person at the gallery. Copies will also be available for purchase on the day of the event.
A solo presentation of Syjuco's work is currently on display at the Catharine Clark Gallery, titled "Dodge and Burn." The exhibition provides a 20-year overview of Syjuco's practice. Closing on May 4th, we invite you to visit the gallery and view the exhibition during our hours of operation. The gallery is open from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm, Tuesday through Saturday.
About the Book:
Stephanie Syjuco: The Unruly Archive is the artist’s first monograph, weaving together her research-based practice with a substantial array of visual source material. Bound in a unique format with different types of paper, the pages are cut and layered to simulate the process of physically excavating folders in an archive. In Syjuco’s own words, the book is "a type of forensics...what it is like to piece together a vision of an entire country and people—the Philippines, Filipinos, and by extension, Filipinx Americans—through the lens of the American colonial archive." By examining the blind spots, holes, and fragments of these collections, she examines the ways photography, anthropology, and national archives produce and proliferate images of exclusion and cultural Othering. Using techniques of layering, blocking, digital manipulation, pixelating, blowing up, and taping together, the artist’s work ultimately seeks to “talk back” to the archive and find agency in challenging its images. As she states in the book's introduction, "I do not make work about Filipino identity; I make work about the white gaze, and those are two totally different things."
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Catharine Clark Gallery, 248 Utah Street, San Francisco, United States
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