-
Into the Country of Our Kitchen: An Anthology from the Interdisciplinary Writers’ Lab of 2021 From Empanadas, to Marigolds, Post-Colonial Cha and Baptisms, join us for this reading featuring emerging US-based writers from the 2021 Interdisciplinary Writers Lab (IWL), presented by Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian Art Museum. The 2021 Into the Country of Our Kitchen anthology is here. And it’s giving “recipes for wholeness”. The book and this event represent the culmination of a three-month multi-genre, border-less journey of fifteen artists who…
¶¶¶¶¶
¶¶¶¶¶
¶¶¶¶¶
-
Along with dear friend Connie Zheng @yconniezheng and our mentor and Professor Anna Friz, the three of us were selected to share our audio works at the Rewire 2021 Festival! Feeling very grateful to have been one of the 10 artists chosen (out of 400 submissions 😱). Really, truly was not expecting this. 🤗 Here’s a brief description of my work ~ “Remembering The Pulse” is inspired by Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s work Dub: Finding Ceremony and Leny Mendoza Strobel’s anthology…
¶¶¶¶¶
¶¶¶¶¶
¶¶¶¶¶
-
Event description below: Gray Area hosts a special event celebrating the US publication of Pharmako-AI, published by Ignota Books. Join K Allado-McDowell, Refik Anadol, Dorothy R. Santos and Elvia Wilk to launch the first book to be co-created with the emergent AI GPT-3. In this event, Refik Anadol and K Allado-McDowell present a performance of machine hallucinations, floating heads and sound, followed by a conversation with Dorothy R. Santos and Elvia Wilk. During the first summer of the coronavirus pandemic,…
¶¶¶¶¶
¶¶¶¶¶
¶¶¶¶¶
-
On Friday, March 19th, KSW Presents “Spirit Houses” a reading featuring Maw Shein Win, author of Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn, 2020) and Khaty Xiong, author ofPoor Anima (Apogee Press, 2015). This event is a celebration of Maw Shein Win’s newest collection and of both poets’ powerful work performing rituals of grief, pain, and the life after it and with it. I have the great honor of being an opening reader/poet of this wonderful event. Starts promptly at…
¶¶¶¶¶
¶¶¶¶¶
-
Who said beauty doesn’t matter? Similar to art, beauty’s ubiquitous and enigmatic nature is ever-present in our visual landscape. It is not just on billboards, in magazines, or the growing number of photographs we see of others (i.e., seeing our own ‘beautiful’ friends on social networking sites as we all re-define self-portraiture in this digital age) but even deep seeded in our histories, you will find how standards of beauty have been created. Our histories reside in our bodies. It is obvious in the way in which we care…
¶¶¶¶¶
Art / art community / conceptual art / ethnic studies / filipino / performance / performing arts / Philippines / poetry / San Francisco / writing¶¶¶¶¶
¶¶¶¶¶
writer | artist | scholar
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 