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Drawing on the themes from her latest book and exhibition After School \u8ab2\u5f8c, participants are invited to critique educational systems by cutting up old textbooks and creating new photocopy collages. All materials will be provided, but participants are welcome to bring their own texts to deconstruct!\n\n--\nAngela Chen - Artist Statement: Angela Chen\u2019s After School brings together collage, sculpture, and new and historical photographs to unpack the culture of after school tutoring centers in California. Known as \u88dc\u7fd2\u73ed (buxiban) in Chinese, after schools are referred to colloquially as \u201ccram schools\u201d and by scholars as \u201cshadow education.\u201d Operating simultaneously as spaces of community, care, and control, these schools can be demanding and factory-like; but they also deliver essential childcare services to busy parents, many of whom are new immigrants. As a child and young adult, Chen attended and worked at Futurelink School, a buxiban and her parents\u2019 business. Located in the San Gabriel Valley, CA, Futurelink served hundreds of primarily East Asian students, providing them with homework help and supplemental English and math lessons. Inspired by Futurelink\u2019s vast archive of photographs, workbooks, objects, and advertisements, After School explores the role of education in Asian American enclaves and challenges stereotypes about Asian American students. Assemblages combine Futurelink photographs with photographs of California Chinese schools during the Chinese Exclusion era to reflect on the ongoing legacies of racism, segregation, and US immigration policy within the Asian American experience.\n\nAaron Turner - Artist Statement: Aaron Turner\u2019s Black Alchemy (2014 - Present) speaks to the broad spectrum of identity and speculative aesthetics, drawing from lived experience, archives, American history, and art history. He uses the light in combination with the Darkroom, alternative and 19th-century printing processes, the view camera (4x5 & 8x10), geometric abstraction, assemblage, and monochromatic pictorial experimentation to respond to internal questions about representation, the discursive enterprise, and the artists' role in the studio space.\nBlack Alchemy provides a lens through which he sees the world while simultaneously considering the past, present, and future, translating knowledge and perspective outside the intellectual studio space.\n\nRicky Weaver - Artist Statement: Ricky Weaver\u2019s work co-conspires with the poetics and temporality of Black feminist metaphysics embeded in the Black Quotidian. These images locate a code that can be traced back to the Middle Passage\u2014one that disrupts the paradigmatic ways of archiving Blackness and outsmarts surveillance technologies as such. Her application of scripture, hymn, and colloquial passages come together in acts of dark sousveillance to recall language that implies worlds that don\u2019t require an escape. She addresses the sonic, linguistic, and visual as a way to posture the body as a central apparatus for storing, downloading, and transferring archives.", "occurrence_notes":"All welcome! 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While the objects on display are disparate at first glance, ranging from lead tablets and amulets to papyrus and parchment leaves, they all share a common thread: they have long been labeled as \"magical\" in traditional Western scholarship.\r\n\r\nHowever, each of these artifacts is better understood on a broad spectrum of ancient ritual, from subversive and transgressive acts to highly social and visible ones. The exhibit highlights the objects\u2019 oft-overlooked material dimensions, asking us to consider how qualities like color, texture, and weight shaped an object\u2019s perceived efficacy and meaning. \r\n\r\nThis exhibit was a collaboration, and displays items from several University of Michigan units: the library\u2019s Special Collections Research Center and Papyrology Collection, the Museum of Natural History, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. 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