https://inthesetimes.cargo.site In These Times Fri, 23 Sep 2022 22:56:59 +0000 https://inthesetimes.cargo.site en https://inthesetimes.cargo.site/About Fri, 23 Sep 2022 22:56:59 +0000 In These Times https://inthesetimes.cargo.site/About Many of us occupy bodies that break cishetero patriarchal, racist, imperialist, and ableist interpretations of time. Palestinian-American philosopher Edward Said coined the term “rival geography” to describe liminal spaces as sites of resistance to colonial occupation. In Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South, Stephanie M. H. Camp expands on the concept of rival geographies to explicitly include landscapes of Black fugitivity. With their work Said and Camp challenge us to center our liminal experiences as “rivals” not “alternatives” to whiteness. Through crafting a practice that mixes media and material language In These Times asks us to view time as varied, shifting, and nonlinear. We don’t have to wonder what it might be like to move beyond chronological time because we already do. We live not only in backwards and forward accelerations, but abrupt stops, long loops, elastic skips, and slow drags. We collapse ancestral timelines in our bodies. We invoke pasts, presents, and futures each time we pray. We disrupt the urgency of capitalism when we practice community care. In short, I believe that time is messy. And that’s a good thing.In These Times Level Ground Syllabus Project <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57e30294fbff4c394a3861b77c3cebe18a8318b015a79724cd4e3e7cd54831da/309214938_1798428933828532_4390737013402417257_n.jpg" data-mid="154260595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57e30294fbff4c394a3861b77c3cebe18a8318b015a79724cd4e3e7cd54831da/309214938_1798428933828532_4390737013402417257_n.jpg" />Bianca Nozaki-Nasser is a Los Angeles (Tongva land) based multimedia artist. Born to a Syrian-Lebanese father and Japanese American mother, much of her work draws on her own experience navigating familial legacy, transnational culture, material language, and the politics of artifacts. Bianca is also the Strategy &amp; Creative Director at 18MR, a national digital-first Asian American advocacy organization where she works on campaigns to mobilize over 170,000 members around social issues. https://inthesetimes.cargo.site/STAR-GAYZING Fri, 09 Sep 2022 05:56:48 +0000 In These Times https://inthesetimes.cargo.site/STAR-GAYZING STAR GAYZING Installation:Audio/Video Collage Projection &amp; Sewn Pillows A central piece in this show is Star Gayzing (2022) a group meditation in the form of a visual and audio collage inspired by Trinh Minh-ha’s practice of “speaking nearby.” To “speak nearby” is to acknowledge the difficulty and futility of attempting to represent everyone’s experience. To me a commitment to “speak nearby” also means a commitment to address the impacts of our gaps in understanding one another. In this piece, I talk with eight voices from my community to wreck ideas of time and reckon with its multiplicity. <img width="3194" height="2108" width_o="3194" height_o="2108" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7197d6b4e0abbd39bae381b714b800c74ae2ed7f0fc8999beaae184e2be3c6d2/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.49.31-PM.png" data-mid="152789060" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7197d6b4e0abbd39bae381b714b800c74ae2ed7f0fc8999beaae184e2be3c6d2/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.49.31-PM.png" /><img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7973738e06623ac2eff9f6dc7825df8f4ba88a86ac98dbf1af997d66b0a454d7/sgle.png" data-mid="152862325" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7973738e06623ac2eff9f6dc7825df8f4ba88a86ac98dbf1af997d66b0a454d7/sgle.png" /><img width="3176" height="2124" width_o="3176" height_o="2124" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ee15e4b212fdcec0b4f0cab7ffc3c3670e8e77bdd9f0408d5570e7471322813/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.56.10-PM.png" data-mid="152789339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ee15e4b212fdcec0b4f0cab7ffc3c3670e8e77bdd9f0408d5570e7471322813/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.56.10-PM.png" /><img width="3176" height="2124" width_o="3176" height_o="2124" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ee15e4b212fdcec0b4f0cab7ffc3c3670e8e77bdd9f0408d5570e7471322813/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.56.10-PM.png" data-mid="152789339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ee15e4b212fdcec0b4f0cab7ffc3c3670e8e77bdd9f0408d5570e7471322813/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.56.10-PM.png" /><img width="3194" height="2130" width_o="3194" height_o="2130" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/448bffa031be0854686c1fde165a106a30eefddec11eec3f2b9364057e5c21bb/Screen-Shot-2022-09-13-at-11.06.56-AM.png" data-mid="152852861" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/448bffa031be0854686c1fde165a106a30eefddec11eec3f2b9364057e5c21bb/Screen-Shot-2022-09-13-at-11.06.56-AM.png" /><img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7d4353d42f3386cdf889891799668bb0ae92cf0a5687658838e4cd467b79d95/sgeri.png" data-mid="152862419" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7d4353d42f3386cdf889891799668bb0ae92cf0a5687658838e4cd467b79d95/sgeri.png" /> <img width="3886" height="2914" width_o="3886" height_o="2914" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c54e1de9b0e581ceead4f6718c2c0f1337158a4263bde5ca6802971e3e3e3a6/SG1.png" data-mid="152533306" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c54e1de9b0e581ceead4f6718c2c0f1337158a4263bde5ca6802971e3e3e3a6/SG1.png" /> https://inthesetimes.cargo.site/SHWAY-SHWAY Fri, 09 Sep 2022 06:53:02 +0000 In These Times https://inthesetimes.cargo.site/SHWAY-SHWAY SHWAY SHWAYInstallation: Audio/Video Collage Projection, Cushions, Suspended Vinyl Screenmaterialsmulticolored vinyl decorative fabricfoamwirevideo fotage in Baalbek, Beirut, Byblos, Beqaa Valley, Lebanonfamily photosProcess Notes: When we see Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) we are often shown a white veteran who’s linear timeline was disrupted by the violence of war and imperialism. We have been told to see PTSD as a loop that interrupts linear progression. Complex PTSD (C-PTSD), is different, people who have have experienced multiple or chronic events might not have such a clear timeline. Those who are exposed to&nbsp; systemic violence from begining of life might not even have be a “before” time. CPTSD can be difficult to explain, especially when there is shame around not being able to “pinpoint” one big trauma. With CPTSD flashbacks aren’t just a replaying of a traumatic memory, but rather, flashbacks can visit the present with varying shades of visual, somatic, and emotional flavors.I was diagnosed with CPTSD when I was 25. In addition to my own lifetime, I’ve worked to understand timelines&nbsp; present in me that I may have not been present for. We carry collapsed ancestral timelines in our bodies. I am Gosei, a daughter of a Yonsei daughter. I was raised by her Sansei father, the son of my Nisei great grandmother, the daughter of my Issei great great grandparents. I am the daughter of an immigrant, born in Damascus, whose parents survived war and famine. While we are all so much more than what has happened to us, our histories will continue to color our present. Many histories are not things we will “get over and “move on” from,” and that’s not a bad thing. We are not stuck in loops. We are using many lenses to navigate time. Or asLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha says in Care Work: “ My trauma is a fucking five-act opera, a gorgeous and tough dress made out of my best scars, a seed library, a Gutenberg Bible, a thunderstorm to climb and buck in a small plane, a mountain range, a supernova to map.” * The Nod has a great episode on research studies on treating racial trauma with psychadelics&nbsp; <img width="1500" height="998" width_o="1500" height_o="998" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14a4acb85eb6df5377891b82c6dcc373d154b554c93e7de2d2e3b395ba39111c/Screen-Shot-2022-09-13-at-11.35.14-AM.png" data-mid="152856560" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14a4acb85eb6df5377891b82c6dcc373d154b554c93e7de2d2e3b395ba39111c/Screen-Shot-2022-09-13-at-11.35.14-AM.png" /> <img width="1200" height="1800" width_o="1200" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8004a873fdd248a25e8f1ff52a21c3d74c75466c4c6690bcb7ddb321d5ccf587/snakk.png" data-mid="152857903" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8004a873fdd248a25e8f1ff52a21c3d74c75466c4c6690bcb7ddb321d5ccf587/snakk.png" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d951f2b3e4bbb4d5f977866a212d3097fb8a9500d7f14ffe91ad5a1d22da4900/IMG_0079.png" data-mid="152465347" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d951f2b3e4bbb4d5f977866a212d3097fb8a9500d7f14ffe91ad5a1d22da4900/IMG_0079.png" /><img width="1356" height="1856" width_o="1356" height_o="1856" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82afd0d9abaeedc4a25b4232ce1836dabc0028753aa701eae5ab9902e8b40eec/Screen-Shot-2022-09-09-at-12.05.41-AM.png" data-mid="152464697" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82afd0d9abaeedc4a25b4232ce1836dabc0028753aa701eae5ab9902e8b40eec/Screen-Shot-2022-09-09-at-12.05.41-AM.png" /> https://inthesetimes.cargo.site/THRESHOLDS Fri, 09 Sep 2022 06:53:45 +0000 In These Times https://inthesetimes.cargo.site/THRESHOLDS THRESHOLDS(3) Prayer Rugs materials Bath towelsPrayer rugsExecutive order 9066National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS)Leaked “Black Identity Extremist” FBI Report Process Notes:My family and I have been personally affected by both Japanese incarceration and the persistent waves of Islamophobic policy and violence. However, these kinds of experiences are not just a few particularly violent moments in time, but rather, a part of a continuing history of surveillance and criminalization of Black people, indigenous people, people of color, and immigrants. Before Trump’s 2016 muslim registry proposal there was the 2003 National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), a special registry sytem targeting foreign nationals from 25 countries based on religion, ethnicity, and national origin. NSEERs focused on predominantly AMEMSA (Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, South Asian) communities. I grew up in a immigrant household with extended family of aunts and uncles. Despite the fact that the program did not find one single terrorist during its 8 years, my uncle was one of the many people who were forced out of the country post 9/11.As a kid I’d walk past my dad’s open door and see him kneeling on a bath towel, softly muttering to himself as steam from his shower slowly swirled around his bedroom. No beautiful prayer mat in sight. I didn’t realize until I was older that he way praying. When Trump started talks of a “Denaturalization Task Force,”&nbsp; my dad said that his citizenship would protect him, that it didn’t matter that he was born in Syria, he’d been a citizen since the 1980’s. I sat my father down to explain that when the Japanese incarceration executive order 9066 was enacted in 1942 those people were American citizens too. From the Page act of 1875 to the Chinese exlusion act, one thing America is consistent with it their criminalization of non-white people.&nbsp; &nbsp;Recently leaked document outlining the FBI’s “Black Identity Extremist” investigations of the movement for Black Lives is just a grandchild of the same ideology that created COINTEL PRO (1956–1971), a series of covert and illegal projects actively conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting political organizing done by groups like the Black Panthers.&nbsp; It may be 2022 but not much has changed. Work and coversations on multiracial/ethnic identity are often rooted in whiteness: what do you pass for? Or cis-heterosexual reproduction: what will your kids look like? What I look like is the least interesting thing about me. In her work "So, I turn inside": Overcome by the Unbearable, Seeing Myself in Michiyo Fukaya”&nbsp; my sister, Dr. Anna M. Moncada Storti, writes,&nbsp; “held in relation to the past and the future, my mixed race reflects a world in flux…I am less a bridge, more a threshold. You, too.” Instead of more photo essays documenting mixed kids with white features, as a multiracial person I’m interested in mapping thresholds as a means for navigating one other. Histories we are asked to forget on purpose. Gaps in understanding. Liminal thresholds for new was of relating to one another. Angela Davis reminds us that radical simply means “grasping things at the root.” Yes, it is important to remember our opressions are connected at the root, but there is strength in owning that our differences do not need to be obscured for us to be in this movement side by side. <img width="3194" height="2118" width_o="3194" height_o="2118" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/585958be1484bdb7116689d4b228b6160380278641299daa57496983e2f55d08/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.12.55-PM.png" data-mid="152787980" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/585958be1484bdb7116689d4b228b6160380278641299daa57496983e2f55d08/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.12.55-PM.png" /><img width="3188" height="2122" width_o="3188" height_o="2122" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74bec0998a252eb14a036f727b586c60a04aa77c7cd7572b3bb4abc123b5a0c6/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-10.42.18-PM.png" data-mid="152787085" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74bec0998a252eb14a036f727b586c60a04aa77c7cd7572b3bb4abc123b5a0c6/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-10.42.18-PM.png" /><img width="1416" height="2124" width_o="1416" height_o="2124" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d33ee27d810d97ae39f1fcc3f357ae2850d8165e2b4dc0aa8489d450802839b1/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.45.43-PM.png" data-mid="152788947" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d33ee27d810d97ae39f1fcc3f357ae2850d8165e2b4dc0aa8489d450802839b1/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.45.43-PM.png" /><img width="1388" height="2122" width_o="1388" height_o="2122" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a92719eabb4976dac13c0a0823ce571a4b9bf3f38f3dffd03bd55731d1133527/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.47.23-PM.png" data-mid="152788996" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a92719eabb4976dac13c0a0823ce571a4b9bf3f38f3dffd03bd55731d1133527/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.47.23-PM.png" /><img width="3156" height="2122" width_o="3156" height_o="2122" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c44afa64a0294c18bbcea32e920be2832d59f5615d442126e54b37346c81fe7e/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-10.54.14-PM.png" data-mid="152787469" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c44afa64a0294c18bbcea32e920be2832d59f5615d442126e54b37346c81fe7e/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-10.54.14-PM.png" /><img width="3170" height="2106" width_o="3170" height_o="2106" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3820c089894fa48157f36245099d140f01a53125f9377f6662ab0435a472b578/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.25.30-PM.png" data-mid="152788339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3820c089894fa48157f36245099d140f01a53125f9377f6662ab0435a472b578/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.25.30-PM.png" /><img width="1394" height="2112" width_o="1394" height_o="2112" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76024272d6a25275f0def59ef2920a82098750d217ad24982e807b3812004785/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.39.14-PM.png" data-mid="152788690" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76024272d6a25275f0def59ef2920a82098750d217ad24982e807b3812004785/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.39.14-PM.png" /><img width="3160" height="2094" width_o="3160" height_o="2094" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91eefd57b553218fe7bf5c61c28f3f474d430b6c7c37b76b0e1db35bd44ec04b/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.41.02-PM.png" data-mid="152788721" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91eefd57b553218fe7bf5c61c28f3f474d430b6c7c37b76b0e1db35bd44ec04b/Screen-Shot-2022-09-12-at-11.41.02-PM.png" /> &nbsp; https://inthesetimes.cargo.site/English Fri, 09 Sep 2022 05:48:02 +0000 In These Times https://inthesetimes.cargo.site/English Many of us occupy bodies that break cishetero patriarchal, racist, imperialist, and ableist interpretations of time. Palestinian-American philosopher Edward Said coined the term “rival geography” to describe liminal spaces as sites of resistance to colonial occupation. In Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South, Stephanie M. H. Camp expands on the concept of rival geographies to explicitly include landscapes of Black fugitivity. With their work Said and Camp challenge us to center our liminal experiences as “rivals” not “alternatives” to whiteness. (Continue reading...) <img width="582" height="582" width_o="582" height_o="582" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c34a37482386707ac7bcb54310c70728b9d100e09b290750b8bb57b4794951e/hp2.png" data-mid="154239071" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/582/i/4c34a37482386707ac7bcb54310c70728b9d100e09b290750b8bb57b4794951e/hp2.png" /> <img width="935" height="935" width_o="935" height_o="935" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8bf9776768a342ef1a1dffd6d13fb769f96d3f153613df481798190906b2751/homepage1.png" data-mid="154238810" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/935/i/c8bf9776768a342ef1a1dffd6d13fb769f96d3f153613df481798190906b2751/homepage1.png" /> <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cab7ca3223419e78cc41bea1b58999eddaaf2e08e8a33fc58d8ba379f90e5d7b/h2.png" data-mid="154239636" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cab7ca3223419e78cc41bea1b58999eddaaf2e08e8a33fc58d8ba379f90e5d7b/h2.png" /> <img width="1414" height="2150" width_o="1414" height_o="2150" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84e3797eebf877d9b81dc3f28e279833e8268486555ebd4cc6aa5d41a83a6ebb/Screen-Shot-2022-09-13-at-11.44.07-AM.png" data-mid="152857077" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84e3797eebf877d9b81dc3f28e279833e8268486555ebd4cc6aa5d41a83a6ebb/Screen-Shot-2022-09-13-at-11.44.07-AM.png" /> Special ThanksThank you to Leslie, Rebekah, Samantha, Reniece, and Lily for holding the space that is Level Ground and giving me support, encouragement, and guidance this past year. Thank you to Sonia, Lean, Jade, Kyla, Leslie, Sharmin, Nour, and Dayna, for trusting me and sharing a piece of yourselves with me for Star Gayzing. Thank you to my gallery collaborators: Yun &amp; Chaos Kitchen, Terrell, and Karina/I AM HEALIN. Thank you to my sister, Seo Yun, for always loving me. To Nao for pushing me to apply to residencies. To the 2021 - 2022 residents: Leo &amp; Raegann. A big thank you to Pranay and Art Core for hosting. And endless gratitude to the entire Level Ground community.<img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/965a465e4ef48deb214f214a8bcafdc9ea0cd15983052cb7d66b04657340e6c4/opening2.png" data-mid="152853788" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/965a465e4ef48deb214f214a8bcafdc9ea0cd15983052cb7d66b04657340e6c4/opening2.png" />This show is dedicated to my best friend, my late grandfather, Michael Kiyoshi Nozaki (1943 - 2022). Thank you for everything.