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

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