graphic design by Pete Valenti
curated and moderated by Mia Morettini
panelists—Mahsa Biglow, Francisco-Fernando Granados, DJ Malinowski, Laura Waltje, and Will Zeng
opening and closing remarks by llio sophia
tech support by Corey Smith
You See a Rabbit
and I See a Rainbow
meaning making in contemporary art and writing
Holly and the Neighbors is happy to facilitate a dialogue between Mahsa Biglow, Francisco-Fernando Granados, DJ Malinowski, Laura Waltje, and Will Zeng— five past Singing on a Sinking Ship residents whose work thrives at the intersections of text and image.
While these artists are based in differing parts of the world, they all find themselves on a similar plane working within, around, and beyond questions of trauma, representation, relation, body, boundary, and bureaucracy to arrive at their critical praxes. In our community’s unprecedented moment of catastrophe, we find these artists striving to make art against universalism, art that seeks to challenge perceptions regarding the stability of identity in a space of belonging, tenderness, and meaning making. How can we engage with the moments of in-between that combined text and image relationships create? How can we use these interstitial spaces to imagine and explore new possibilities of engagement with the world?
You See a Rabbit and I See a Rainbow is the first of a series of special events from Holly and the Neighbors. We seek to begin unpacking collective questions in a shared social fabric, to continue to collaboratively weave this tapestry, to spin this web connecting individuals. To create community on a global scale in a nuanced way.
—Mia Morettini, Curator
