Programs at KADIST Paris and San Francisco
A Woman You Thought You Knew
April 11 to August 3, 2024
KADIST San Francisco
With Chitra Ganesh, Liz Hernández, Lotus Laurie Kang, Candice Lin, Helina Metaferia, Citra Sasmita, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, Sin Wai Kin, and Tomoko Yoneda
A Woman You Thought You Knew brings together works from the KADIST collection that explore the notion of world-building as a means to resist, transform, and anchor historical narratives into the contemporary. The exhibition is complemented by a program in the Screening Room, “Worlds Worlds Worlds,” presenting work by Basma Alsharif, Heesoo Kwon, Anna Molska, Sandra Monterroso, and Ana Teresa Fernández.
Bastardie
June 14 to 30, 2024. KADIST Paris
Convened with Simon Asencio, Fatma Cheffi, and Pedro G. Romero
Bastardie is a series of events and an exhibition delving into slangs, jargons, and broader unconventional language practices that trouble, contaminate, and bastardize the use and circulation of hegemonic language. Three consecutive weekends will host the proposals by Fatma Cheffi on trap and rap experimentations from a decolonial lens; by Pedro G. Romero on the heritages and filiations of flamenco languages; and by Simon Asencio on the collective writing and listening of jargon ballads.
A Woman You Thought You Knew and Bastardie draw on shared themes across the KADIST collection and aim to make the breadth and diversity of over 2,000 artworks accessible at KADIST’s hubs in Paris and San Francisco.
International programs
Pies bajo fuego: Sobre el despojo
Part 1: through May 19, 2024; Part 2: May 23–August 11, 2024
MAC Panamá, Panama City
Pies bajo fuego: Sobre el despojo (Feet Under Fire: On Dispossession) is an exhibition that explores the various meanings of dispossession, addressing issues such as colonial violence, white privilege, forced migration, collective memory, and self-determination. The two-part project pairs videos from Central American artists with those from other regions, examining the persistent dispossession of Indigenous and Afro-descendant lands and the role of media in shaping narratives.
Probing (Liminal Spaces)
March 2024
DRC No.12, Beijing
Probing (Liminal Spaces) is a year-long collaboration that integrates video works from the KADIST collection with DRC No.12’s programming. The collaboration addresses geopolitical issues through alternative narratives and explores the intersection of Chinese histories and global contexts. The second screening in the series explores how artists engage with their daily creative practices, and how they navigate and explore thresholds, boundaries, and interstices.
Residencies
San Francisco
February
Artist Cao Shu will investigate prison architecture and its effect and relationship with how time is perceived, as well as continue his research into AI engineering and processing and interactive games. Cao Shu was awarded the residency as part of OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Program which aims to support emerging artists working in media art.
May
Ana Maria Maia, chief curator of Pinacoteca de São Paulo, will be in residence as part of the KADIST Nomadic Collection, a new long-term initiative that engages with museum collections, through residency, exhibition, education program, and commission. She will research Latinx identity and diasporic communities through the lens of California, and reflect on the formation of global Latino and Brazilian identity.
June
Writer and editor, in the fields of art, architecture, and their histories, Sheau Yun Lim will serve as guest curator for an exhibition exchange and collaboration between ILHAM, Kuala Lumpur (2025), and KADIST San Francisco (2026). She will research manifestations of the plantation system worldwide, exploring the shared affective modes birthed, damaged, and arbitrated by plantations and their (non)logics.
Paris
March–April
Buenos Aires-based curator and organizer Larisa Zmud, and Rotterdam-based cultural worker and grey literature circulator Clara Balaguer based in Rotterdam, will coincide in residency around their work and research on institutional and community kitchens as artistic processes of social digestion.
April–May / Artists Agnė Jokšė and Anastasia Sosunova will develop a production residency between KADIST Paris and the Palais de Tokyo as part of the upcoming 2024 fall exhibition Borders are Nocturnal Animals organized by the two parisian institutions and the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius under the framework of the Lithuanian Season in France. Curator of CAC Vilnius and co-curator of the project Neringa Bumbliene will also join them briefly during their stay.
Publications
de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas: Reader Volume Two
Curator Yina Jiménez Suriel introduces a constellation of voices that address the interconnections between the geological, perceptual, temporal, sonic, poetic, social and political forces. The bilingual publication (English and Spanish) is available for purchase through Sming Sming Books.
Frequencies of Tradition
The publication digital culminates a decade of curator Hyunjin Kim’s research and offers a comprehensive account of the curatorial and artistic journey of the eponymous series of seminars, commissions, and exhibitions that reflect the intricate relationship between tradition and modernization across Asia (free download through May 31, limited quantity available).
Press inquiries
Pierre-Antoine Lalande: pa.lalande [at] kadist.org
Aude Keruzore—l’art en plus: a.keruzore [at] lartenplus.com
