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. More info about tandas here.
Fall 2024
October 9, 2024
– [ ] Redefining seeing: Correlation between Objects and Image
Kiván Quiñones Beltrán
October 16, 2024
A Glimpse Into What Is Not Mine: Moving Images As Found Paintings
Tianjiao Wang
October 23, 2024
Ten Tacit Pins: Bowling As A Unit Of Measurement For the United States Military
Samantha Oxborough
October 30, 2024
Sospecha en el paraíso: What is Shining From The Other Side Of The Border?
Daniel Martin Rincón
November 6, 2024
Revolutionary Speech and Imperial Tongues
Layan Attari
November 13, 2024
Homewrecker Orientation: Houses As Cabinets Of Curiosities For Identity, Transition, And Utopian Possibilities
Eugene I-Peng Tang
Spring 2025 Preview
Zenana: Exploring Matrilineal Inheritance, Resistance, and Disconnection
Reevah Agarwaal
Contemporary Afro-Surrealism: Built Environments and Imported Aesthetics
Jordan Barrant
Las Niñas de Meme
Kaelyn Andrade
Rust Belts Bulldaggers and Hot Wires: on Black Sound and Sexuality in the Midwest
Bri Robinson
Community Care and Decolonization through Doula Work
Carina Vargas-Nuñez
Craft as Resistance: Strategies for Keeping Craft Alive in Cultures Under Threat
Christina Sadovnikov
Past Tandas
Spring 2024
03/26 – Transcribing Genealogy of Resistance and Hope
Youree Kim
04/02 – Red Diaper Babies: Childhood in the League of Revolutionary Struggle
Maggie Wong
04/09 – Decolonizing Death: Lessons From Marronage, Black Spirituality, & Afrofuturism
sun-Lynn Hunter
04/16 – Bridging Diasporic Divides: Synthesizing Family Through Visual Art
Natasha Moustache
04/23 – Good Relative: Creating Kinship with Fire and More-Than-Human Beings
Lydia Cheshewalla
04/30 Who Owns Our Block? An Exploration of Local Property Ownership in Chicago
fern ramoutar
Fall 2023
10/02 – Contextualizing the Mexican Milagros: Agents of Relational Anatomy
Alexis de Chaunac
10/16 – Into Conversation: Temporality, Power and the Interview
Ian Carstens
10/23 – Amor Eterno: Luchar por la Vida
Araceli Zuniga
10/30 – Consider a Disappearance
Ruby Que
11/06 – Bridging Diasporic Divides: Synthesizing Family Through Visual Art
Natasha Moustache
Spring 2023
03/27 – Between the Black Body and Water; Finding Rest in Turbulent Times
Daya Tiye Stanley
04/03 – Storytelling Post Colonialism Through Landscape & Plants History
Jenny Rafalson
04/10 – Afterlife Assemblage: Craft as Speculative Framework for Memorial Practice
Gabriel Moreno
04/17 – Los Nuevos Ayllus: Collaborative Resistance and Pedagogical Resonances from the Global South
Olenka Macassi & Rodrigo Carazas Portal
04/24 – LL Proyectos. Auto-Constructed Pathways in the Central American Art Scene
Karon Sabrina Corrales
05/01 – The Semiotics of Belonging: A Study of Belonging in the Chicago Urban Landscape Through Visibilizing Markers of Displacement and Environmental Racism
Carlos Flores
Fall 2022
09/28 – Labor, Care, Rest and the Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy
Jessica Caldas
10/05 – Ecologies of Impairment: Farm labor and Disability
Cielo Saucedo
10/12 – Urban Palimpsest, Collaged Spatiality: Mapping the Mecca
Roland Knowlden
10/19 – Monastic Making: Public Grieving and Vernacular Art Environments
Gabriel Chalfin-Piney
10/26 – Cumbia/Truth Teller and Backbone
Esperanza Cortés
11/09 – Video Game Non-Architecture: Digital Spaces and Their Impact
Jalyn Haynes
Spring 2022
03/30 – Facing Climate Change and Mass Migration Through Visual Art
Elizabeth Calvillo Dueñas
04/06 – Disruptive Pleasure: Love as an Artistic Practice
Anna Cai
04/13 – Creating Care-filled Igbo Architecture(s)
ebere agwuncha
04/20 – Radicalizing Human Resource: Shifting white-supremacy based practices, systems, expectations and culture to a care-based models
Alden Burke
04/27 – Southeast Asian Disco: The Aesthetics of Optimism Under Oppression
Francine Almeda
05/04 – Mesofuturism: Reclaiming Historical Identity through Archiving and Critical Fabulation
Josué Esaú Romero Velasquez
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