BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Haptic Processing with TT Takemoto and Eve Oishi X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260907T154329Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_46979173317574 DTSTART:20240927T010000Z DTEND:20240927T020000Z DESCRIPTION:Join us for a hands-on dorodango-making workshop and conversati on between artist TT Takemoto and cultural studies scholar Eve Oishi in co njunction with the exhibition TT Takemoto: Remembering in the Absence of M emory\, on view at the Cantor Arts Center from June 19 through December 1\ , 2024. RSVP here.\n\nWe will begin the evening with a demonstration by Ta kemoto on the Japanese art form of dorodango\, where earth and water are c ombined\, molded\, and polished to create delicate\, shiny spheres. Come g et your hands dirty and try out molding these balls with us out of earth c ollected on the Stanford campus. Collectively\, we will continue to polish these spheres over the course of the evening while Takemoto and Oishi are in discussion. \n\nThe Cantor’s current exhibition includes two of Take moto’s video works along with a number of handcrafted objects made as pa rt of the series “Gentleman’s Gaman” (2009–23). A striking display of handcrafted kokeshi dolls in glass and clay–the latter made with do rodango heads–anchors the exhibition. This series evokes arts and crafts made by Japanese Americans in U.S. incarceration camps during World War I I. In doing so\, the work examines how handcraft–and making do with avai lable materials one finds while away from home–can offer a means of pers onal expression and a way to cope with traumatic experiences and histories .\n\nTakemoto’s recent production of moving image work also involves wor k done by hand–in this case through the meticulous manipulation of the m aterial substance of film\, frame by frame. A chapter of Eve Oishi’s cur rent book in progress entitled “Ruined Matter: Haptic Processing and Spe ctral Cinema” draws connections between diasporic experience of loss and void\, veiled reference to queer subjectivity\, and the hapticality of an alog image-making practices that fragment or distort filmic representation s of history. In this program\, Oishi will be in discussion with Takemoto about their “cameraless ‘emulsion lift’ films” and their practice at large. At the close of the discussion\, attendees will have opportuniti es both to pose questions and to admire the polished fruits of their own h aptic labor.\n\nParticipants \n\nTT Takemoto is a queer Japanese American artist exploring hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy in Asian American history. Takemoto interacts with found footage and archival materials thro ugh performance and labor-intensive processes of painting\, lifting\, and manipulating 16mm/35mm film emulsion using clear tape\, razor blades\, and nail polish. By engaging with tactile and sensory dimensions of queer his tories\, Takemoto conjures up immersive fantasies honoring Asian Americans who lived\, loved\, and labored together. Takemoto was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best Experimental Film at Slamdance Film Festival. They hav e received grants from Art Matters\, ArtPlace\, Fleishhacker Foundation\, Lucas Artists Program at Montalvo Arts Center\, and San Francisco Arts Com mission. Their screenings include Ann Arbor\, Anthology Film Archive\, Asi an Art Museum\, BFI Flare\, de Young Museum\, Documenta 15\, MIX Mexico\, Marseille Underground Film Festival\, Outfest\, Queer Forever! (Hanoi)\, R io Gay Film Festival\, SFMOMA\, and Xposed International Queer Film Festiv al (Berlin).\n\nEve Oishi (She/They) is an associate professor in Claremon t Graduate University’s Cultural Studies Department. Their primary resea rch interests include Asian American cultural studies\, independent and ex perimental film and video\, transnational media\, and gender and queer the ory. In addition to their scholarship\, they are an independent film and v ideo curator and were the inaugural curator for Fusion: Los Angeles LGBT P eople of Color Film Festival. They are the co-editor (with Jennifer Abod) of a special issue of Journal of International Women’s Studies on “The Practice and Legacy of a Black Lesbian Feminist: Selections from the Arch ive of Dr. Angela Bowen (1936-2018)” as well as (with David K. Seitz) a special issue of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ+ Worldmaking on "The Queer 1990s. " Oishi is completing a monograph entitled Partial Form: An Experimental H istory of Asian American Film and Video.\n\nAll public programs at the Can tor Arts Center are always free! Space for this program is limited\; advan ce registration is recommended. Those who have registered will have priori ty for seating. RSVP here.\n\n________\n\nParking\n\nFree visitor parking is available along Lomita Drive as well as on the first floor of the Roth Way Garage Structure\, located at the corner of Campus Drive West and Roth Way at 345 Campus Drive\, Stanford\, CA 94305. From the Palo Alto Caltrai n station\, the Cantor Arts Center is about a 20-minute walk or there the free Marguerite shuttle will bring you to campus via the Y or X lines.\n\n Disability parking is located along Lomita Drive near the main entrance of the Cantor Arts Center. Additional disability parking is located on Museu m Way and in Parking Structure 1 (Roth Way & Campus Drive). Please click h ere to view the disability parking and access points.\n\nAccessibility Inf ormation or Requests\n\nCantor Arts Center at Stanford University is commi tted to ensuring our programs are accessible to everyone. To request acces s information and/or accommodations for this event\, please complete this form at least one week prior to the event: museum.stanford.edu/access.\n\n For questions\, please contact disability.access@stanford.edu or Kwang-Mi Ro\, kwangmi8@stanford.edu\, (650) 723-3469.\n\nConnect with the Cantor Ar ts Center! Subscribe to our mailing list and follow us on Instagram.\n\nIm ages: TT Takemoto: Remembering in the Absence of Memory\, installation pho to at the Cantor Arts Center\, Stanford University. Photo credit: Glen C. Cheriton GEO:37.432981;-122.170494 LOCATION:Cantor Arts Center\, Cantor Auditorium SUMMARY:Haptic Processing with TT Takemoto and Eve Oishi URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/haptic-processing-with-tt-t akemoto-and-eve-oishi CATEGORIES:Lecture/Presentation/Talk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR