Neither Black / Red / Yellow Nor Woman

28 September 2019 – 4 January 2020

Curated by Nikita Yingqian Cai and Xiaoyu Weng
Participating Artists: Chang Wen-Hsuan, Dachal Choi, Chitra Ganesh, Jane Jin Kaisen, Iris Kensmil, Sylbee Kim, Mai Ling, Laura Huertas Millán, Sara Modiano, Mai-Thu Perret, Thao Nguyen Phan, Arin Rungjang, Shen Xin, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Wang Zhibo, Luka Yuanyuan Yang & Carlo Nasisse, Mia Yu

Presented by Times Art Center Berlin
Artistic Director: Xi Bei
Assistant Director: Zhu Xiaowen
Program Coordinator: Celina Basra
Curatorial Assistant: Cai Qiaoling
Production: Mathias Wölfing, Liang Jianhua
Administration Manager: Georg Geckert
Exhibition Assistance: Stella Schwake, Tang Han, Wang Taotao
Camera and Editing: Tom Janson
Music: Kontan Chok

When Trinh T. Minh-ha published her significant text Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminismin 1989, some of the turbulent and transformative events of the world’s recent history were yet to happen, such as the end of the Cold War, the so-called East Asian Miracle, and the aggressive global expansion of identitarianism. But Minh-ha had already proposed a non-dualistic affirmation of women by stating: “The idea of two illusorily separated identities, one ethnic, the other woman (or more precisely female), again, partakes in the Euro-American system of dualistic reasoning and its age-old divide-and-conquer tactics.”[i] And her criticism of the paradigms of Western academic discourses reads as radical and prophetic in today’s milieu of sociopolitical divisions.

Inspired by Minh-ha’s belief in the empowerment of writing and storytelling, the exhibition concept of Neither Black / Red / Yellow Nor Woman departs
from an imaginary encounter between three Asian women artists: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982), Pan Yuliang (1895–1977), and Trinh T. Minh-ha (b. 1952) in Paris sometime in 1979, and is informed by their works and archives. The stories of Yuliang, Theresa, and Minh-ha are exceptional stories about women who search for their voices as artists and struggle with their identity-impasse, while navigating through various cultural, geographical, and historical contexts. We question whether we could venture to say we are also Yuliang, Theresa, or Minh-ha, and whether there could have been empathy and resonance regardless of our different personal trajectories, cultural identifications, ideological positions, and understandings of gender.

More info: https://www.timesartcenter.org/neither-black/red/yellow-nor-woman
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