Capp Street Residency Intensive
Looking In / Looking Out: The ArchiveInstructor: Hồng-Ân Trương
Class meets during Spring Break: March 23–27, 9am–3pm | Dogpatch Graduate Studios
 Looking In / Looking Out is an investigative, research-based SRL that will engage the archive as both site and subject of our work. We will explore the archive specifically through two lenses. Firstly, we will use the filmic and written work of Trinh T. Minh-ha as a theoretical framework to engage complex questions around storytelling, history, memory, and identity. Secondly, we will engage broader questions around the politics of representation and the archive as a form and site of public memory and the production of knowledge. We will explore the archive specifically as the primary material for developing projects focused on the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s. As a dynamic period that saw profound changes in the political configuration of the post-war era and with anti-capitalist and anti-racist resistance, we will engage the archive as form and site of public memory and the production of knowledge. Students will spend time conducting research in the archives at several Bay area institutions, including the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library & Special Collections and the San Francisco State University Special Collections, with the goal of developing short or long term projects, and the possibility of contributing to a public event focused on Trinh T. Minh-ha, who is the focus of the Wattis Institute’s research year.  Instructor BiographyHồng-Ân Trương is an artist who uses photography, video, and sound to explore immigrant, refugee, and decolonial narratives and subjectivities. Her work has been shown in both solo and group exhibitions at the International Center for Photography (NY), Art in General (NY), Fundación PROA (Buenos Aires), Istanbul Modern (Istanbul, Turkey), City Gallery (Wellington, New Zealand), Smack Mellon (NY), the Nasher Museum of Art (Durham, NC), The Kitchen (NY), Nhà Sàn (Hanoi), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, Ireland), Southeast Center for Contemporary Art (Winston-Salem, NC), EFA Project Space (NY), Leslie Tonkonow Gallery (NY), the Phillips Collection (Washington D.C.) and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, among others. She was included in the New Orleans triennial Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp in 2017-2018. Her collaborative work with Hương Ngô was exhibited in Being: New Photography 2018 at MoMA. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, The Wall Street Journal, and Hyperallergic, among others. She has been awarded an Art Matters Foundation Grant, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts emergency grant, and most recently a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Hồng-Ân is based in Durham, North Carolina where she is an activist and a teacher. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
____Studio Research Laboratory (SRL) classes are designed around a specific interdisciplinary theme that is not bound to a specific idea of medium or production. Classes are limited to 6 students and often do not meet on a regular basis throughout the semester. Depending on the course some courses may have a travel component. These courses may be unique to the timing of a specific one time event and are not repeated. In the past, classes have ranged from topics related to professional development, including grant writing, gallery economics, and professional development to more theoretical propositions, such as the concept of failure within a studio practice or an exploration of the grotesque in contemporary art. They give students crucial experience in creating fully realized projects that are embedded in the art world, and they help them to cultivate a network of fellow practitioners and supporting institutions that can be built upon after graduation.

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