SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH ELIZA FERNAND, WE WELCOMED EIGHTH RTS RESIDENT HELEN HOMAN WU, AN ART CRITIC AND ENGINEER OF ART PRODUCTION VENTURE OPALNEST WHO VISITED US FROM NEW YORK.
HELEN HOMAN WU
Ritual Stories
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My intimate relationship with a city lies in confronting different comfort zones- by performing personal rituals. In San Francisco, one of them is staying at the Green Tortoise Hostel and waking up early in the morning to get a view of Telegraph Hill. At Real Time Space I was asked to create a documentation of my 10-day curatorial residency in Oakland and San Francisco. In this condensed period, I decided to do a survey to get to know the local artists or residents in a short amount of time, but also to break the ice. Inspired by a comment that Emma Spertus (RTS) had made after observing the numerous rituals that I instinctively act out, I was curious to know what others’ rituals were. I asked 10 people in the Bay area, most of them were either artists affiliated with RTS or part of the art scene. I came to realize that every person performs some sort of ritual in order to be grounded, and naturally as a basic human behavior.
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1 Carrie Hott |
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2 Aaron Harbour |
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3 Rimma Boshernitsan |
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4 Yaman Palak |
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5 Cybele Lyle |
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6 Mark Inglis Taylor |
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7 Dan Swindel |
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8 Christina Linden |
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9 Lance Brewer |
| 10 Amy Ho |
| Thanks to Emma Spertus at RTS and everyone who participated in this project. |