流离诗所｜字句为家 NowWhere x Now Place: Poetry Writing Workshop + Artist Talk

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📝 Poetry Writing Workshop + Artist Talk | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
🔖 RSVP Required | Facilitated in Mandarin Chinese & English

Join us for an Exquisite Corpse-style collective poetry workshop, followed by an artist talk exploring themes of diaspora, kinship, and storytelling.

🥂 Drinks & Snacks Provided

Descritpion: In a world where AI and digital networks shape our connections, how do we reclaim interpersonal intimacy, community care, and collective storytelling? This gathering weaves together a Zine Fair, a poetry writing workshop, and an artist talk, creating a shared space for reflection on diaspora, kinship, and healing. Through the Exquisite Corpse method (传纸条) and the tangible craft of zine-making, we explore how words and art can foster deep, embodied connections beyond the algorithm. No writing experience is needed—just an open heart.
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Biography of Speakers:
Chinese Artists and Organizers(CAO) Collective:
As cultural organizers, they explore social justice-oriented theorizing and narrativizing through communal and processual art practices. Their interdisciplinary praxis interweaves collective poetry, performance, food art, clay, photography, sound, video, children’s games, meditation, herbal medicine, and installation. Their works investigate systems of discipline, control, censorship, and capitalist extraction and reimagine memory/memorials, rituals, intimacy, and queer/feminist kinship to (re)build sustainable community infrastructures. They explore the idea of languaging as a moving and fluid site, a contact zone for improvisation.
CAO Collective was a 2023-24 resident at BRICLab: Contemporary Art cohort and was a collaborator with Laura Dudu in Pedantic Arts Residency (2024, Pittsburgh, PA) and Feminist Incubator Residency at Project for Empty Space (2022-23, Newark, NJ). Their community-engaged art organizing has been supported by the Queens Art Fund, Asian American Arts Alliance’s What Can We Do? grant, John Hope Franklin Documentary Award, Benenson Award in the Arts, and beyond. CAO has been invited to host artist talks at alpha nova & galerie futura (Germany), Hamilton College, UC Irvine, Pratt Institute, Duke University, Wesleyan University, and University of Oklahoma. Their community collective poetry and translations have been published by Irrelevant Press, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and The Massachusetts Review.

NowPlace: Now Place is a community based in San Francisco, champions female and emerging artists/creators of the Asian diaspora, whom dreamed up and crafted work rooted in their cultural identity, exploring who we are in the new home.

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