Episode 4: Tamara Porras, Emily Kuhlmann, & Soleil Summer

In this episode, Tamara Suarez Porras sits down for an interview with Museum of the African Diaspora's curatorial team, Emily Kuhlmann and Soleil Summer. 

Episode 8: Bittersweet End Notes

This episode is the season finale of what are you looking at?, and our hosts Jay and Elena reflect on the bittersweet feelings of all different sorts of endings.

Episode 32: Barnali Ghosh & Anirvan Chatterjee

The Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour guides people across downtown Berkeley as they share stories that explore the multigenerational and intersectional work of South Asian Americans in the region.

Nkiruka Oparah: dream constructs at Nook Gallery

Secrets and Other Superheroes

In superhero films, the secret lives of the protagonists are self-protective, ensuring their security within the civilian world. While the secrecy of identities and societies can fortify resistance, it also suggests an absence, one that has parallels to the lack of representation produced by socioeconomic and racial inequality and political oppression.

Children of Children

In the exhibition Children of the Children of the Revolution at Stockholm’s Färgfabriken, five artists reckon with the legacies of their revolutionary upbringings.

Gagged: An Interview with Marcel Alcalá

To face the precarity of our present day and the psychic freight it offloads onto queer, POC, and undocumented people, Marcel Alcalá stages critiques that are in turn humorous and no-bullshit.

Performing Livability

Episode 29: Imani Jacqueline Brown

New Orleans-based artist, writer, and cultural organizer, Imani Jacqueline Brown, very carefully examines the underlying financial systems that destabilize and shape our lives, whether it be fossil fuel money, predatory development, student debt, or wealthy investment portfolios.

Incantations for Troubled Land: Demian DinéYazhi´’s Galéé Sin

…every age must bring forth its own at Bass & Reiner

SuperSet at fused space

The Matter of Photography in the Americas at Cantor Arts Center

Episode 7: MFA or Nah

Jay and Elena reflect on their post-grad experiences and give some tricks and tips that have helped them survive it (so far).

Indira Allegra’s Grieving Technologies

Grief’s complexity is at the center of much of Indira Allegra’s work, which explores the intersections of loss, disability, and Black feminine physicality. 

Episode 30: Edgar Arceneaux

Edgar Arceneaux explores concepts of absolution, redemption, and the participation of audiences and institutions in exploitative systems.

Episode 3: Andrew Wilson with Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción

Artist Andrew Wilson sits down with Curator and Educator Angel Rafael Concepcion Vazquez to discuss his affinity for fashion and honoring the ephemeral objects that acknowledge the histories of of Black bodies in America.

Trevor Paglen: Impossible Objects at Altman Siegel

The Performative Drawings of Dorian Katz, aka Poppers the Pony

Dorian Katz exposes forces of nature in the animal world that help to deconstruct human-held views of normative sexuality and gender. Katz’s metamorphic animals exist in the liminal spaces between species and genders, illustrating and leveraging other ways of embodiment and being.

Mythmaking in and through Sublime Seas at SFMOMA

The polyphony quickly reveals itself to be a major source of the power of John Akomfrah's Vertigo Sea. Specifically, it provides a conceptual frame for greater consideration of the relationships between bodies and voices, media and environment, representations and reality.