IDEAS with Junyi Min and Hazel Katz
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Host: Michael Trigilio
Time: 4:00p.m.-7:00p.m. PST

Agenda

• 4:00pm Calit2 Theater: Introductions with Michael Trigilio
• 4:10 Theater, Cooking with Jun: fishhead soup by Junyi Min
• 5:00  RML, Sulka's Daughters by Hazel Katz
• 5:45 Q&A
• 6:10 Courtyard Reception

IDEAS website: http://ideas.ucsd.edu

RSVPs requested to galleryqi@ucsd.edu

Descriptions:

Please note: this event contains material that might not be appropriate for all viewers. Attendee/viewer discretion is advised.

Cooking with Jun: fishhead soup by Junyi Min

Come cook with Jun as she makes a healing concoction of fishhead soup! Cooking with Jun explores the sensorial act of cooking but through the gaze of digital technology! Throughout the cooking session, the audience will be invited to hold Jun’s left eye and right eye to control her vision and participate in an act of collaborative cooking. Uninterested by mono-lithic vision, Jun wishes to turn vision into soup –  a blurred, unstable, and uncertain vision that exists in the multiple and transcends boundaries.

Junyi Min (she/they) is a first-year M.F.A. student studying visual arts. Originally interested in pain as a source of primal knowledge, she is learning to invite pleasure and other feelings into their performance works. Jun treats these happenings as spontaneous explorations into the realm of the uncontrollable and undisturbed. She is currently interested in intimacy, eroticism, and the senses and how they relate to the mundane, the absurd, the inexplicable.

Sulka's Daughters by Hazel Katz

Sulka’s Daughters is a multichannel video eulogy to transfeminine ancestors who found moments of euphoric performativity in contexts of exploitation. The project consists of re-edited moving image loops from Dream Lovers [1980], one of the first transexual porn movies, and stars Sulka, the first transsexual porn star. These loops are combined with selfies of the artist learning about her own body by watching Sulka’s movements. Sulka’s Daughters honors the actors, like Sulka, who survived being a trans sex worker despite injecting poisonous amounts of silicone during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Sulka survived, in part, because she made herself into a sexual fetish for consumption. Sulka’s Daughters highlights the contradictions of celebrating an achievement like this while asking the audience to participate in an uncoupling of transfemininity and consumable sex commodity.

Hazel Katz is a Los Angeles-based video artist and filmmaker focusing on the politics of visibility through reenactment and pop culture archives. Her 2017 short film, Bubby & Them, won top international film at WNDX festival. From 2017-2019 Hazel was lead media educator at Global Action Project, an organization that cultivates and trains youth to tell innovative stories that amplify movements for social justice. She has produced videos in collaboration with community groups including Equality for Flatbush, BYP100, and Picture the Homeless. Her films have been shown on public television and festivals internationally, and her 2019 feature documentary Florida Water is now distributed by Collective Eye Films. Hazel recently completed a yearlong collaborative residency at UnionDocs and is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Visual Arts at UC San Diego.

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