Stitching Radical Friendship (2023)
March 5th, 2023, Ezra and Cecile Gallery, 283 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT
Co-curated with Xiran Tan and Xingyan Guo
Co-sponsorsed by The College of East Asian Studies, The Resource Center, Fries Center for Global Studies and Center for the Humanities
Stitching Radical Friendship offered a retrospective of lived experience of how young artists and community organizors participated in the A4 Movement in 2022. It was a participatory artist conversation in circling and stitching with Chinese Artists and Organizers Collective (CAO): a group of diasporic feminists explores radical friendship to queer and counter heteropatriarchy and state structures.
How do we counter and survive such policing on our bodies--the feminine, the queer, the foreign? How do we navigate our relationship with trauma and hope?
We proposed a form of radical friendship, politicized art, and social practice as a potential answer.
Press Release:
“Stitching Radical Friendship” — Chinese Artists and Organizers’ Collective Visit to Wesleyan
