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    The Pickle Bar Presents Xiaowen Zhu's Oriental Silk and Yon Natalie Mik's Performance

    The Pickle Bar Presents Xiaowen Zhu's Oriental Silk and Yon Natalie Mik's Performance

    For Pickle Bar’s Summer Program, KNOT KNOW explores craft’s potential for building solidarity and queering beliefs across Central Asia and China. Each month, a specific work will be presented at Pickle Bar–a paper cut-out, an ikat, or Muslim Chinese calligraphy–as a gnostic thumbnail, a point of departure for lectures, screenings, podcasts–online as well as in real brine. Crafts offer a tonic to the many jinns of contemporary society: be they cults of personality, secular rag
    Video Documentation: "Oriental Silk" by Xiaowen Zhu & Performance Response by Yon Natalie Mik

    Video Documentation: "Oriental Silk" by Xiaowen Zhu & Performance Response by Yon Natalie Mik

    Presentation of the book "Oriental Silk" by Xiaowen Zhu + Performance "Silk-Shop-Oriental-Body" by Yon Natalie Mik Zhu Xiaowen's English-Chinese bilingual artist book 'Oriental Silk 鄉綢’ (Hatje Cantz. 2020) is a memoir, a biography, a company history and a visual elegy. The Oriental Silk emporium, founded by Kenneth Wong's family in Los Angeles in the early 1970s, has become a productive place to reflect on the astonishing histories of 20th-century Asian American migration and

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