TANDA
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.
Fall 2023 & Spring 2024
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
Co-Facilitators
agustine zegers is a Chilean olfactory artist and writer. By way of queer and microbial methodologies, zegers deploys care practices that reach microscopic dimensions by incorporating bacterial communities, aromatic molecules, and food absorption in their artistic projects, creating tools to reflect about cohabitation, interspecies and intrahuman belonging, and care itself. Their work has been exhibited and published internationally at venues such as the Venice Biennale, Galería Jaqueline Martins, Sharjah Art Foundation, the Institute of Queer Ecology, and DIS Magazine.
augstine will co-facilitate Fall 2023. augstine participated in the Fall 2021 season with the topic Agenciamentos Olfativos / The Agency of Scent.
Kee Merriweather is a Chicago born and raised artist. Kee’s work explores the duality of collage and archives through printed matter, literature, research, pedagogy, and archiving. Their work seeks to centralize narratives around matriarchal lineages, water, grief, and the body. Kee is the founder behind former archival projects such as the Black Matriarch Archive and Homagetoblkmadonnas.
Kee will co-facilitate Spring 2024. Kee participated in the the Fall 2021 season with the topic Reconceptualizing the Madonna and Child through Archival Praxis