In this conversation, Los Angeles artist Shinique Smith and Yogyakarta artist Mella Jaarsma discuss overlaps in their approaches to using materials, people, and ritual in their works with curator Anuradha Vikram. Topics include learning to make and dye textiles, researching colonial histories and economic dependencies between nations, and working with the body, their own and those of others.
This conversation took place December 10th, 2020 at 9:00am PST.
