RTS is excited to host Real Talks with resident artists Jin Zhu & Dena Al-Adeeb Wednesday, December 6th from 6-8pm PST.
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Jin Zhu is an Oakland-based multi-disciplinary artist who works with video and text to examine local housing and environmental justice issues. Her practice often involves interviews with impacted communities, public document queries, collaboration with activists and collectives, attending meetings with regulatory agencies, direct action documentation, and visits to sites of contamination, displacement or colonization. Her toolkit consists of cameras, conversation and, increasingly, code. She has presented or exhibited work at SFMOMA, BAM/PFA, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Southern Exposure, SF Arts Commission Galleries, and the Cantor Arts Center, among others. She holds an MFA from UC Berkeley. Currently, she is particularly interested in conversing about archives, storytelling games and diving birds.
Dena Al-Adeeb is an Iraqi born feminist scholar-activist, artist-cultural worker, community organizer and mother. Her transdisciplinary research is at the intersection of U.S. imperial war geographies, militarism, and petroculture in West Asia with an emphasis on contemporary transnational art, visual and material culture of the Arab/Muslim worlds. Her creative practice investigates the relationship between the politics, poetics and aesthetics of embodied fugitive survival practices, intergenerational narratives, and memory. Her artwork takes on varied practices including performance, video art, installation, digital art, photography, text, and activism. She creates performative, relational works, dedicated to participatory art, socially and politically engaged projects and collaborative engagement. Her work appears in a diversity of publications and shown globally in spaces ranging from national museums to abandoned buildings. She is a recipient of the 2021 Mellon Artist and Practitioner fellowship at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration and 2020-2018 University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has undertaken many academic research positions throughout her career including her role as a Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg. She has taught at New York University, Pratt Institute, San Francisco State University, and Ex’pression College for Digital Arts. She holds a PhD from New York University, MA from The American University in Cairo and BA from San Francisco State University.