Stephanie Syjuco, The Visible Invisible series, 2018.

How can contemporary art reveal the subversive nature of textiles and destabilize the boundaries between art, history, and anthropology? Join in on this conversation between artist and Art Practice Professor Stephanie Syjuco and the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Through dialogue, we will explore two recent projects by Syjuco entitled The Visible Invisible and Cargo Cults, and their connections to such topics as historical ethnographic portraiture, the collecting practices of museums and academic institutions, and the (literally) fabricated nature of cultural history.

This event will be recorded and available for viewing via the Hearst Museum's YouTube channel.

Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of history and citizenship. Born in the Philippines, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. She is an Associate Professor in Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley, and resides in Oakland, California."