RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Alex Arzt and Connie Zheng Thursday, February 17th from 6-8pm PST via zoom.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87071010727?pwd=R3FPOVYyeXRZTFNPNnRQbkNWYjREUT09
Meeting ID: 870 7101 0727 Passcode: 855661
Alex Arzt
Rooted in a connection to place and material explorations, Alex Arzt facilitates connections between human and nonhuman spaces by creating projects in the form of publications, interactive objects, workshops, group performances, lectures, videos, and experimental gardens. From 2018-2021, she was an Affiliate Artist at The Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA. She runs a Risograph press called A Magic Mountain, and her publishing projects are in the collections of libraries such as Stanford, Getty Research Institute, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, she was awarded grants from The Puffin Foundation and The East Bay Community Foundation towards the completion of The Positions and Situations Project book series. She earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and has since attended residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, PLAYA Summer Lake, Hambidge Center, A-Z West, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mildred’s Lane, and This Will Take Time. She is currently a lecturer at UC Davis’ Department of Art and Art History and has taught at UC Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, and VCU.
Connie Zheng
Connie Zheng is a Chinese-born artist, writer, filmmaker, and occasional field recordist based out of xučyun / Oakland, California. Her work primarily focuses on nonlinear representations of time and history as well as polyvocal, speculative fiction-based approaches to navigating environmental crisis. She has exhibited work in the Netherlands and around the United States, through venues such as the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco, CA), Framer Framed (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and the IMPAKT Festival (Utrecht, Netherlands), with coverage of her work appearing in Hyperallergic, KQED Arts, MUBI Notebook, and other outlets. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and the Minnesota Street Project Foundation, among others. Her written work has appeared in publications such as Errant Journal and SFMOMA’s Open Space, and she recently published a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change. She graduated with BAs in Economics and English from Brown University, an MFA in Art Practice from the University of California — Berkeley, and is currently a PhD student in Visual Studies at the University of California — Santa Cruz.