Title: Placetaking: Trans Cartography and Resistance to Hostile Architecture

Date: Saturday November 21, 3:00 PM

Participants include: Xixi Edelsbrenner, Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai(remote), Umi Hsu (curator), and Carol Zou (moderator).

The show Hold Each Others Hands: Trans Mutal Aid 1966-1996, is currently on view at Oxy Arts. This is a group show which chronicles a history of mutual aid led by transgender and gender expansive people.

This conversation will expand on how some of the artworks included in Hold Each Other’s Hands engage with the history of space and spatial politics. Xixi Edelsbrunner's installation wrestles with hostile architecture and carceral politics surrounding trans, unhoused, and disabled bodies. Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai's project makes tangible an imagined trans cartography composed of sites of ruins with regenerative power and interstitiality.

Exhibition curator Umi Hsu will join the discussion to address the history of sidewalk memorials (particularly for Marsha P Johnson) as an instance of everyday urbanism, in honor of the Trans Day of Remembrance.

This panel is co-presented with Oxy Arts; moderated by Carol Zou.

Hold Each Other's Hands is co-presented by One Institute and OXY ARTS as a part of One Institute’s Circa: Queer Histories Festival.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS:

This event is ADA accessible.

Limited street parking is available. Rideshare is encouraged.