We Won't Move: A Living Archive: Episode 1

Kearny Street Workshop presents its first podcast about Bay Area Asian Pacific American arts, activism, and dreaming. Hosts Michelle Lin, Dara Del Rosario, and Kazumi Chin talk about the genesis of the podcast, the significance of "We Won't Move," and what it means to create a living archive.

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Episode Notes

Kearny Street Workshop presents its first podcast about Bay Area Asian Pacific American arts, activism, and dreaming. Hosts Michelle Lin, Dara Del Rosario, and Kazumi Chin talk about the genesis of the podcast, the significance of "We Won't Move," and what it means to create a living archive. They sit down with curator and feminist scholar Thea Quiray Tagle to discuss her most recent curatorial project AFTER LIFE (we survive), an exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts spotlighting queer resilience and the work of artists creating radical forms of relationship and care.

Full Episode Transcript

This Week’s Guest

Thea Quiray Tagle, PhD is a Filipinx femme curator, art writer, and assistant professor of ethnic studies and gender & sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Throughout her various research and creative projects, Thea remains interested in the following questions: how can socially engaged art and performance move us, collectively and individually, to inhabit the world and relate to each other in ways that are non-extractive, anti-capitalist, and queer? Thea’s PhD dissertation, After the I-Hotel: Material, Cultural, and Affective Geographies of Filipino San Francisco, traced the history of the Filipino American anti-eviction movement in the San Francisco Bay Area using the visual art, poetry, and performance of Filipino American artists like Manong Al Robles, Carlos Villa, Barbara Jane Reyes, and the Mail Order Brides as a map guiding us to alternative futures for our communities. Her recent writing on visual cultures of violence, climate chaos, and speculative futures in the expanded Pacific Rim can be found in scholarly and popular venues including ASAP/J, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, Hyperallergic, and ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies. During the COVID-19 crisis, Thea is a visitor on occupied Ohlone territory.

Links

• Afterlife (we survived) exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: https://ybca.org/event/after-life-we-survive/

• Thea Quiray Tagle's essay "AFTER LIFE (we survived)": https://ybca.org/after-life-we-survive-thea-quiray-tagle/

• Thea Quiray Tagle's website: http://theaquiraytagle.com/

• Kearny Street Workshop and the I-Hotel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kearny_Street_Workshop