News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Ching-In Chen has been commissioned as Writing the Land poet
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has been commissioned as a Writing the Land poet to write poems about Misery Point Preserve for the Great Peninsula Conservancy in Kitsap County. Writing the Land partners with various nonprofit and environmental organizations to ...
April 25, 2022
From Zine to Online Gallery: Growing and Reflecting in the Open
May 19, 2022, IAS faculty member Deborah Hathaway, along with UW Bothell librarians Denise Hattwig and Chelsea Nesvig, presented “From Zine to Online Gallery: Growing and Reflecting in the Open” at the University of Washington Teaching & Learning Symposium. Their presentation focused on...
April 21, 2022
Ching-In Chen presents “Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen presented as part of the Association for Asian American Studies conference last week on the 2022 Lambda Literary Finalist Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America anthology. Chen discussed their sequence of poems in recombinant, which ...
April 21, 2022
Ching-In Chen’s “Queer Poetry: a Zuihitsu” published in The Margins
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Queer Poetry: a Zuihitsu” and “Love Letter to Dear Zuihitsu” in the 随筆 | Zuihitsu Notebook, a folio of twenty-one poets’ pieces inspired by the Japanese genre of “following the brush,” published in The Margins ...
April 20, 2022
Amoshaun Toft: Telling the same old story at Third and Pine
IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft is interviewed in "Telling the same old story at Third and Pine," a current analysis of homelessness discourse published by Real Change News. The article argues that that Toft’s previous research on homelessness discourse from 2008, along with a subsequent journal article from 2014, provides a useful framework for understanding the current framing of homeless sweeps in Seattle.
April 18, 2022
Anida Yoeu Ali engages Atlanta community in a 10-day residency at The Carlos Museum
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali completed a 10-day residency at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Ali’s artworks comprising of photos, videos, installation and live performance from her Buddhist Bug series are part of a group exhibition titled "And I Must Scream”. ...
April 18, 2022
Ted Hiebert publishes “Art and the ‘Pataphysics of Exception: Or, how a sieve becomes a time machine”
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert published "Art and the 'Pataphysics of Exception: Or, how a sieve becomes a time machine" in Katie Price & Michael Taylor's edited volume, 'Pataphysics Unrolled. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. pp. 153-170. Hiebert's essay examines ...
April 14, 2022
Naomi Macalalad Bragin brings Waacking/Punking dance research to Paris
April 9 and 11, IAS faculty member Naomi Macalalad Bragin moderated a roundtable and gave a research talk on Waacking/Punking, a dance that derives from the first gay clubs of Los Angeles, California, during the Disco and Funk music era of the early 1970s. Her groundbreaking work highlights ...
April 12, 2022
Masahiro Sugano’s short film addressing anti-Asian violence awarded first place at The Artists Forum Juried Competition in New York City
In May 2021, IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano and his media lab Studio Revolt responded to a rise in anti-Asian violence with a short film titled “Listen Asshole” based on a poem by the spoken word duo Yellow Rage. The poem, originally written 20 years ago by Michelle Myers and Catzie Vilayphonh, sought to defy stereotypes that many people perpetuate about Asian Americans and ...
April 12, 2022
Amaranth Borsuk publishes collaborative poems and interview
The latest issue of Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review includes a series of poems from IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's collaboration with Terri Witek, W/\SH, a book of speculative ecopoetics that grapples with climate catastrophe. Comprising a series of myths and visual transmissions, the poems connect women on ...
April 11, 2022