let’s talk: vulnerable bodies, intimate collectivities
Fri, Oct 7, 2022
12–8 pm
Julie Tolentino, Drawing for Let’s Talk, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
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In a world in which connectivity cannot be refused, this day-long conversation asks: how can we negotiate interpersonal and communal boundaries instead of fortifying and defending borders—institutional, physical, social, and geographical? How do we think about and enact activism against the toll of multiple pandemics as they bear upon our psyches, bodies, and communities? What dialogue and action might unfold as we address viruses as agents of change? In gathering together speakers, creatives, audience, and recorded accounts, we inquire: what’s provoking you at this time?
Julie Tolentino and activist, writer, and scholar Jih-Fei Cheng collaborate to highlight the work of artist-activists and members of the What Would an HIV Doula Do? (WWHIVDD?) collective. Engaging with visionary forms of activism, each presenter reframes our common understanding of risk, instead finding opportunities for radical transformations of the unjust status quo. In dialogue with these concerns, the day is punctuated by a repeating slide presentation and video works. This chorus of participants invite us to redefine our shifting terms for intimacy, safety, and community, and to improvise our ways of being, and being together.
Schedule of Presentations
12 pm Julie Tolentino and Jih-Fei Cheng
1 pm Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad
3 pm Tiffany Marrero
6 pm Tamara Oyola-Santiago + Bronx Móvil
7 pm Pato Hebert
Moving image works by Demian DinéYazhi', Theodore (Ted) Kerr + Julie Tolentino, Kia Labeija, Kang Sueng Lee. Ray Navarro, Nguyen Tan Hoang screen throughout the day.
let’s talk: vulnerable bodies, intimate collectivities and its companion durational performance, HOLD TIGHT GENTLY, follow ECHO POSITION, a collaboration between Ivy Kwan Arce and Julie Tolentino for Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept.
This event is presented in both English and Spanish, and simultaneous interpretation is available in both languages. Interpretation by Babilla Collective.
En un mundo en el que no se puede rechazar la conectividad, esta conversación de un día de duración nos hace preguntarnos: ¿cómo podemos negociar los límites interpersonales y comunitarios en lugar de fortalecer y defender las fronteras institucionales, físicas, sociales y geográficas? ¿Cómo podemos pensar en el activismo contra las consecuencias de las múltiples pandemias que afectan a nuestras psiques, cuerpos y comunidades? ¿Qué diálogo y qué acción podrían desarrollarse cuando abordamos los virus como agentes de cambio? Al reunir a ponentes, creativos, público y relatos grabados, preguntamos: ¿qué te provoca en este momento?
Julie Tolentino, activista, escritora y el profesor Jih-Fei Cheng colaboran para destacar el trabajo de artistas-activistas y miembros del colectivo What Would an HIV Doula Do? (WWHIVDD?). Al comprometerse con formas visionarias de activismo, cada presentador replantea nuestra comprensión común del riesgo, encontrando en su lugar oportunidades para transformaciones radicales del injusto status quo. En diálogo con estas preocupaciones, la jornada se ve interrumpida por una presentación de diapositivas y obras de video que se repiten. Este coro de participantes nos invita a redefinir nuestros cambiantes términos de intimidad, seguridad y comunidad, y a improvisar nuestras formas de ser y estar juntos. Entre los colaboradores están: Demian DinéYazhi', Pato Hebert, Theodore (Ted) Kerr, Kia Labeija, Kang Sueng Lee, Tiffany Marrero, Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad, Ray Navarro, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Tamara Oyola-Santiago + Bronx Móvil. Hablemos de: cuerpos vulnerables, colectividades íntimas y la actuación duradera que la acompaña, HTG: SOSTENGA SUAVEMENTE, siguen a POSICIÓN DEL ECO, una colaboración entre Ivy Kwan Arce y Julie Tolentino para la Bienal 2022 del Whitney: Quiet as It's Kept.
