Invisibility(ies) Session Two

This is the second conversation in Acogedor’s Invisibility(ies) conversation series. The series explores the idea of being invisible in society, family, the world. Each conversation will take place virtually via YouTube Livestream (https://bit.ly/acogedor-live)––that means that anyone interested in attending can connect from anywhere in the world with an (strong enough) internet connection.

Saturday, november, 2020 @ 1:00 Pm PT / 4:00 pm ET /10:00 pm CET

Saturday’s conversation will be with artists traci kato-kiriyama, Enrique Castrejon, and Chuck Hohng. They will be exploring mental health illness + stigma and geopolitical immigration. The conversation will be moderated by Acogedor founder and director, artist Nicole Rademacher.

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participant bios

traci kato-kiriyamas | website
traci kato-kiriyama (she/they) is an award-winning artist, community organizer and cultural producer; Performer/Principal Writer of PULLproject Ensemble; Director/Co-Founder of Tuesday Night Project (presenter of Tuesday Night Cafe -in its 22nd year- the longest-running Asian American-produced, public arts series in the country). tkk has been presented in hundreds of venues throughout the country as an author, theatre deviser/performer, storyteller, actor, lecturer, facilitator, artist organizer, and arts & culture consultant. traci’s writing, commentary, and work have been presented by a wide swath of media and literary publications (incl. NPR; PBS; C-SPAN, Elle.com; The Hollywood Reporter; Regent Press; Heyday Books; Bamboo Ridge Press, Chaparral Canyon Press, Tia Chucha Press; Entropy). traci’s forthcoming book is being published by Writ Large Press/The Accomplices.

Enrique Castrejon | website
Enrique Castrejon is a 48 year-old Queer Mexican immigrant artist that loves to measure what he sees, in order, to investigate and question what he observes by breaking things apart and reassembling them again. He works as a Senior Research Coordinator at the LA LGBT Center for a research study called mSTUDY that is looking at the affects of drug use on the immune system of HIV positive Black and Latino men who have sex with men. He enjoys working within the LGBTQ community while balancing an art career. He has shown throughout various galleries and museums in Los Angeles including the Armory Center of the Arts, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA); LA Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park and Highway’s Performance Space; nationally, at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art in NY and the Mexican Institute, Washington, DC; internationally at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City and Preview Art Fair in Berlin, Germany; just to name a few. He is a recipient of a COLA 2019 Individual Artist Fellowship grant from the City of Los Angeles. He received his MFA from CalARTS and BFA from ArtCenter College of Art & Design and a B.A. in Chicano/a Studies from Cal State Northridge. His work is represented by Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Chuck Hohng | website
Born in Long Beach, California, Chuck Hohng grew up in Seoul, South Korea. He received his undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from the University of Southern California, and currently a candidate for MFA at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. His works have been exhibited both domestically and internationally including Korea, UAE, France and Japan.

Born in Long Beach, California, Chuck Hohng grew up in Seoul, South Korea. He received his undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from the University of Southern California, and currently a candidate for MFA at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. His works have been exhibited both domestically and internationally including Korea, UAE, France and Japan.

Not willing to settle on one form of media, his art pieces run the gambit from incredibly intricate linoleum cuts, to 10 foot bears composed of drop canvas and balloons, to hauntingly beautiful video images.

Currently, he resides in Los Angeles where he continues to create pieces, oftentimes as a collaborative effort with other artists, which delve into subjects that explore power structures, death, and identity.

MODERATOR
Nicole Rademacher | website
Nicole Rademacher is an artist and an Art Therapist & Marriage and Family Therapist in training. The influence of her adoption and reunion (with her biological family) feature prominently in her studio practice where she explores concepts of intimacy, identity, and belonging through visual work as well as in community engagement works. She held an artist residency at La Cité Nationale des Arts and recently received an Artistic Community Engagement Grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. Rademacher holds an MFA from Alfred University and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently an MA candidate in the Marital & Family Therapy with specialization in the Marital & Family Therapy w/ specialization in Clinical Art Therapy Program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She has collaborated and shown work widely both nationally & internationally.