Transcribing Genealogy of Resistance and Hope by Youree Kim

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Dates: Tuesdays, 03/26 – 04/30
Times: 6:30-8:30pm CT / 7:30-9:30pm ET
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83766146223
Meeting ID: 837 6614 6223

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Rampant militarism, wars, and violent repressions continues to annihilate humans and non-human beings, and deepen the unequal divides between Global North and South, and precipitate migrations. Meanwhile, women have been victimized by militarized violence but also forefront of anti-militarist struggles, imagination, and solidarity. Women with Disabilities Empathy is a South Korean human rights organization led by women with disabilities and also runs a dance performance project called Chumheuri. Last year, they traveled to Jeju Island, reflecting the past and ongoing struggles of militarism, capitalism, and climate crisis as disabled women. Art served as an agency to facilitate the process of empathizing and participating when facing catastrophic realities of ours and others. The Women In Black movement originated from West Jerusalem in 1988, prompted by the first intifada in the previous year, with an appeal to end the occupation of West Bank and Gaza. The Jerusalem WiB was dismantled in 1996 but revived in 2000 when the second intifada broke out. WiB has chapters around the world. In “Women, War, and Resistance,” Angela Davis notes how the prison industrial complex has reinforced structural racism, patriarchy, and misogyny, disproportionately impacting working class Black women.

What struggle may you have witnessed or remember in relation to women, war, and militarism? How may it have affected your practice and life? How may it shape the surroundings and experiences?

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Youree Kim is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, and researcher. Their work seeks to navigate the complicated realities of how disabilities are produced, perceived, and represented in the face of critical sociopolitical issues. They approach disability through a liberatory lens where disparate stories are told with dignity and facilitate space for radical imagination. The process involves intricate research on disability history, representation, and narratives in local, national, and global contexts and community engagements to invite broader audiences into conversations ranging from community care to state violence and wars. Memoryscapes Series is a transnational, multimedia/disciplinary project about militarism, disability experience, and remembrance. Originating from “Hileah,” which means “beautiful prairie” in the Muskogee language, it meditates the simultaneous process of translation, reproduction, replication, and disruption of war memories and disability representation. Their writings have been published in Truthout, AK Press, and Riksha Magazine. They are currently a HATCH resident at Chicago Artist Coalition.

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About the Tanda Program
Interweaving the formats of seminars, book clubs, research groups, and tandas, Tanda is a cohort program that aids individuals with their research and practice through self-directed and collective learning. It is a program providing time and space to gather, share, think and exchange conversations, resources, and knowledge on participants’ chosen topics. Tanda is a program by Chuquimarca.

About Chuquimarca
Chuquimarca is an art library participating in the making and exchanging of art knowledge and language by gathering art books and organizing cohort-led programs. It acquires art books. It supports research through the Tanda program. It supports art writers through the Muña Art Writing Residency. Chuquimarca is based in Chicago.

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