In the Borderlands is an exhibition from Fire is Scary (Sol Enae Lee, Gordon H. Williams, Agustin Faundez Rojas and Ariel Sin Yu Lee) from and for the queer, feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa. Using an interview with Anzaldúa as source material, Sol wove a new text through a process of translation between English and Korean, translating word by word, phrase by phrase, then restranslating repeatedly and adding layer upon layer through double meanings, purposeful mistranslations, and machine errors. Through a series of artistic translations, the collective will place Sol’s text in MaMA’s showroom in Rotterdam.

The exhibition unfolds as three spaces inside the showroom- the stage, the library and the laboratory. The stage presents devices, scenery, and costumes for a musical performance, which takes Sol’s text as lyrics, set to music by Gordon and performed by Agustin, Ariel and guest musicians. The library holds publications, books and references for Fire is Scary’s research on translation and the borderlands (space between/across cultures). Finally, the laboratory showcases the collective’s ongoing experiments on translation (in literal and metaphorical senses) with hydrophones, acoustic levitation, and sonoluminescence.  

In the Borderlands is a self-organized exhibition, presented under MaMA’s Summer Swap program for 2024. The exhibition is open Thursday-Sunday 14.00-19.00 and Friday 14.00-21.00.

Family Dinner’s cookbook was at Ghent Art Book Fair with Not Just a Collective’s Not Just a Library.

Family Dinner will be presenting an exhibition with the theme of process at Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm, Sweden with artists Berksun çiçek and Vlada Predelina.

In the last week of September, CORPO will host Family Dinner as we take over their studio for one week for a research residency. We will focus on the relation between food, the body and capitalism. There will be some public moments announced closer to the date.

On 9 & 10 September, Jin and I will be presenting our collaborative work, After December: A Letter from the Planet E during the MSP Presents event at Casco Art Institute in Utrecht.

Juxtapose Art Fair is an international biennial for artist-run exhibition spaces and other independent projects. The event features exhibitions, performances, artist talks, discussion groups and more! Family Dinner will join to share our work in Rotterdam and beyond.

The third week of December, Hache Collective will work from Goethe-Institut Niederlande in Rotterdam on our research project, Hache goes Cumbia. During Goethe Investigating, Hache will have a full week to make use of the studios- living, rehearsing, studying, and cooking together. We will use the time to further develop our research in cumbia- learning a full set of tunes, following workshops, and presenting our work to the public. There will be a public presentation of our work on Thursday 22 December at 19.00.

‘Named lover but not lover’ made a fire to heat the fire. a music video that I created with Fire is Scary will be part of the exhibition, a.k.a MAMA at Showroom MAMA in Rotterdam. The exhibition is a showcase of Team MAMA, a group of employees, volunteers and artists that make up MAMA.

Fire is Scary will be at Touchstone in Utrecht for an album release and pop up exhibition on 20 & 21 July. We will have physical copies of our album available and will host several listening sessions (16:00 & 19:00 both days) with drinks and snacks. There will also be installations from Sol Enae Lee on view.

From the 10th to the 17th of July I will be attending a residency in Northeast Spain. During my time there I will study with other composers and musicians and hopefully have some time and inspiration to work on creating new music.

Fire is Scary will present workshop for students of the HKU MAFA program. This workshop will explore translation as an artistic method, based on the research project Fire Is Scary: Translations of Sound and Image. The session will include activities in various approaches to translation and interactive discussion around the topics of translation and the borderlands (living between/across cultures). Fire Is Scary will share their experience of working with translation, offering practical examples of how translation can function as an artistic method. The workshop will be a moment for co-learning and collective research through experimentation and dialogue. By participating in this workshop, you will gain insight into using translation as an artistic method and have the opportunity to begin to imagine, along with other participants, how you might apply these methods to your own practice.

Sol Enae Lee and Fire is Scary will present an exhibition at Bradwolff Projects in Amsterdam. The exhibition will include works by Sol Enae Lee, a visual album of music that I wrote for Fire is Scary, a workshop on translation and two performances of music from Fire is Scary.

https://www.bradwolffprojects.nl/exhibition/upcoming-exhibition-sol-enae-lee/

Charli Herrington and I will be hosting Family Dinner, an online residency around the themes of sharing, hospitality and gifts. During the month of October, we will work together with 11 other artists and cultural workers in discussions, workshops and other activities. At the end of our time together we will assemble a cook book publication and present a pop-up exhibition.