Longtime friends, artist Anicka Yi and writer Cathy Park Hong, engage in an informal conversation that addresses topics present in both their work. Migration serves as an overall rubric for the evening, inspiring tentacular thinking around time, immigrant backgrounds, and the human question. Anicka will touch briefly on her current project around the Great Kelp Migration, and Cathy will talk about her current book project. They will also both reflect on recent impactful trips to South Korea.

Cathy Park Hong’s New York Times bestselling book of creative nonfiction, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, was published in Spring 2020. She is also the author of poetry collections Engine Empire, Dance Dance Revolution, and Translating Mo'um. Hong is the recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her prose and poetry have been published in the New York Times, New Republic, the Guardian, Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is a Full Professor in English at UC Berkeley.

This is the second event in our year-long season dedicated to thinking about our contemporary moment through the lens of Anicka Yi's work.