Publisher's Synopsis
Driven by the central question "What are we learning from artists today?" the second volume of A Series of Open Questions is informed by themes found in the work of Trinh T. Minh-ha, such as cultural hybridisation and fluidity of identity, digital and migratory aesthetics, memory and landscape, decentred realities, feminist approaches to storytelling, meditations on death and myth, post-coloniality and decolonization, and women's work as related to cultural politics. The contributions to Why Are They So Afraid of the Lotus? embody Trinh's own weariness around categorisation and investigate the ways production can come from and be based in positions of unknowing. Series Overview: A Series of Open Questions provides an edited selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the Wattis's year-long "On our mind" research seasons. Separate from the Wattis Institute's exhibition program, each research season is dedicated to reflecting on a single artist's work and the questions that emerge from it through small-scale reading groups and a series of public lectures and events that explore a diverse and varied ecosystem of other artists and related ideas.
