Curator Talk + Social
Exhibition in-progress talk and social with Vox’s curators in residence huiyin zhou 徽音 and laura 嘟嘟
September 24th, 6:45pm
Presented as part of An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together
Co-curators Laura 嘟嘟 and huiyin zhou 徽音 (Vox Populi's An Endless Meeting) will share the collective process behind 變 SLOW BURN — an exhibition bringing together eight Philly-affiliated artists and collectives to explore memory, belonging, grief, queer kinship, dreaming, and transformation.
They'll trace the curatorial threads weaving through the show — 變 biàn (change), 鳳凰 fènghuáng (phoenix), and 八卦 bāguà (the eight trigrams) — and how these shaped a relational cosmology of tending, where rebirth unfolds not through spectacular sacrifice but through coming together again and again.
Come hang out and connect over snacks and boba tea~!
About CAO Collective
Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草 creates art to empower relational community healing, making space for nuanced narratives rooted in China, the Sinophone diaspora, and other experiences from the margins. Their interdisciplinary praxis interweaves collective poetry, performance, food art, clay, photography, sound, video, children’s games, meditation, herbal medicine, and installation to explore systems of discipline, censorship, capitalist extraction, memory, ritual, intimacy, and queer/feminist kinship. CAO has received support from organizations including The Luminary, BRIC, Culture Push, Creative West, Asian American Arts Alliance, Queens Art Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Raleigh Arts, and New Breath Foundation. CAO’s work has been featured by Hyperallergic, The Amp, Indyweek, and Sine Theta Magazine.
CAO Collective is co-directed by hú-tu (huiyin zhou & Laura 嘟嘟), an artist duo with backgrounds in social practice and anthropology.
About An Endless Meeting
An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together is a multi-pronged project taking place this fall at Vox Populi that activates collective process as subject, form, and method. Spanning exhibitions, a curatorial residency, public programs, and a print publication, the project explores the politics of collectivity, inviting broad publics to reflect on their own experiences of collaboration. An Endless Meeting will be presented as part of Collective Futures, a citywide initiative bringing together artist-run and community-based organizations to examine collective cultural production.
An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
About The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is a multidisciplinary grantmaker and hub for knowledge-sharing, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, and dedicated to fostering a vibrant cultural community in Greater Philadelphia. The Center invests in ambitious, imaginative, and catalytic work that showcases the region’s cultural vitality and enhances public life, and engages in an exchange of ideas concerning artistic and interpretive practice with a broad network of cultural practitioners and leaders.