Late to sharing this, but these are the last two weekends to see my newly commissioned installation 'The Crane and the Snake' as part of @theshedny Open Call. It continues my interest in how rituals of Asian-American fraternities produce spaces of intimacy and violence. Some fantastic installations to see by other artists as well so please make a trip! The show runs through Aug 1. ⏳ 🏃🏃🏿‍♀️ Much gratitude to the curators @emenderby @alessandrrraaa @adeze and the amazing crew+staff there. Also thanks to @tina.c.zhang @christianxcarroll @rayksoeun @kenneth_huynh_actor @moresmcwreath for your help in the production. 🙏🤜🤛 'For Kenneth Tam, Asian American fraternities contradict the Asian cultural values and heritage they claim to uphold in their embrace of the violent ritualized traditions of hazing within American culture. Under the guise of fraternal solidarity, these acts of violence are meant to symbolize the struggles of Asian men in America. The Crane and the Snake, Tam’s multichannel video and sculptural installation, investigates how these antagonistic cultural forces affect the body, especially for young fraternity brothers as they search for self-identity and male belonging under the pressures of assimilation. This project continues the artist’s larger interest in the private practices and rituals used to create belonging in all-male groups and uses Taoist principles of simultaneously opposing forces, as in the concept of yin and yang, to reimagine abusive initiation rites in order to redirect their violent energy to other ends.' 📸 By Ronald Amstutz