Last month, I had an amazing opportunity to speak with Lisa Pradhan, a fellow Smithie alum who is an active member of The Appendix Collective, “a Bay Area collective of Asian American womxn + queer artists reclaiming personal, intimate and diasporic narratives of intergenerational memory and trauma.” In this episode, we learn more about Lisa and their fellow team members’ work on this year’s May 10th exhibit on heartbreak or 3.
“3 embodies the unspoken heartache in relationships with family, home, lovers, work, neighborhoods and ancestral colonial trauma. The exhibition provides a space specific to the experiences of API womxn and GNC, queer and allied artists who pull from their experiences of resistance and healing to address, navigate and interrogate heteropatriarchal and homonormative forms of love, care and representation.”
What is it like to navigate through heartbreak in relationships when we never knew how to in the first place? Through the spectrum of heartbreaks that we experience as Asian disaporic femmes, we should begin to realize the importance of giving ourselves some TLC (tender loving care) as often as we can. Yes, in this episode, it’s all about showing #selfcare, love and softness to ourselves and those around us! We will cover an array of additional topics that deal with our potential to connect our bodies and movement to our lived experiences as well as our mental health and traumas. Along the way, we will learn more about many of the inspiring pieces and philosophies of Lisa’s team members as part of The Appendix (and it was so mind-blowing when I finally learned where they got their name from!).
Lisa Pradhan (b. 1992, San Diego, USA) is a Newari, multimedia artist and organizer who grew up glitched in the socal suburb of Rancho Bernardo. Conceptually obsessed with the states of living (ex. joy, illinx, hygge), Lisa looks to create the “impossible” through somatic, performance, and digital work. Lisa’s shown at the Asian Art Museum, the Pacific Heritage Museum, and AS Gallery and co-curated the Performing Arts showcase for Kearny Street Workshop’s (KSW) APAture 2017: Unravel and Appendix’s 3.
Follow Lisa and The Appendix on social media!:
@lisepie | lisapradhan.com
@appendixcollective | http://cargocollective.com/appendix/
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Episode 63: Healing your Relationship with Your Parents with Ivy Kwong
Episode 62: Discussing the Importance of Political Participation within Asian-American Households with Helena Berbano
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Episode 61: An Introduction to the Intersection of Identity and Product Design for the Asian-American Consumers with COVRY
Episode 60: A Casual Chat on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Living with CeCe Horbat
Episode 59: On Intergenerational Trauma with SEARAC
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Episode 57: Last Words - Season 4 Finale
Episode 56: Collaborations through Love Intersections
Episode 55: Healing as a Survivor
Episode 54: An Earnest Fight Against Anti-Blackness
Episode 53: SEARAC: Affirmative Action and Data Disaggregation
Episode 52: NAPAWF: Reclaiming Our Bodies and Minds through Political Advocacy and #BodyLove
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