Chapter Two
In this chapter
- Language Garden and Nnoo
- Propaganda in the hallway of JOAN
- David Horvitz, being living
- Beach Field Trip
- Health Communism: A Reading Group
- Te escribí un poem
- Alexis Kyle Mitchell, The Goal of Our Health
- Sofía Córdova Exhibition Closing: Offering by Shanhuan Manton
- François Pain, Psychiatry is what Psychiatrists do
- David Horvitz, being living**
- The Eleusinian Projector: Ron Athey’s Post-Porn Mythologies, Memorials, And The Launch Of T.s/Z
- Everybody Wants to be a Fascist
- Screening & Conversation: Alexis Kyle Mitchell’s The Treasury of Human Inheritance
- Geo Wyex, Nobody Wade Never Too Much
- Geo Wyex, Nobody Wade Never Too Much
- Grupo Ñ, Defining Ñ
- Events for a Moving Body (Night II)
- Sofía Córdova, The Wreck and not the Story of the Wreck
- Subversive Film, Tokyo Reels Program II
- An evening with François Pain: Experiments in film and psychiatric clinics
- To Code or Not to Code?: A Cyberfeminist Workshop with Maisa Imamović
- Events for a Moving Body (Night I)
- Eso, eso, eso (index finger gesture)
- Artist Walkthrough for David Horvitz's being living
- Maisa in Webland: Detouring UX Destinies, with Maisa Imamović in conversation with Lauren Lee McCarthy
- David Horvitz, being living*
- Sing your life
- Subversive Film, Tokyo Reels
- Five Radio Stations
April 2024-January 2026
We are launching our second Chapter of programming next week! We are incredibly grateful to all the artists, writers, organizers, and supporters who participated in Chapter One (January 2023–March 2024), which brought together four exhibitions alongside discursive programs, performances, and film screenings exploring the limitations of language, the potentials of voice, and the transmission of sound from a sociopolitical perspective.
Chapter Two runs from April 2024 through January 2026 and brings together artists and collectives exploring communal structures of intervention and support as experiments toward liberatory futures. Engaging themes of alternative kinship structures, anarchism, and collective resistance, participating artists foreground collaborative processes that draw from feminist, queer, and punk networks and organizing strategies, while emphasizing the interconnectedness of humans and nonhuman beings.
This chapter features varied research undertakings and contexts that include: the possibilities of community within underground party scenes, the politics of technology, critical archival practices that surface historical absences, grassroots resistance efforts against ecological devastation and contamination, among others. Together, the featured projects challenge the colonial logics of individualism, territory, and extraction. They look towards alternative histories and cosmologies that contain new imaginaries of being-in-relation, and in commitment to further approaches and structures of accountability, creativity, and support. Additionally, JOAN will produce a publication as part of select projects through our small imprint, Autograph, that offers a different entry point to artists’ research processes.
We begin on Thursday, April 4 with Ron Athey‘s two-part program: The Eleusinian Projector: Ron Athey’s Post-Porn Mythologies, Memorials, and the launch of t.S/Z, with participants Dominic Johnson, Pony Lee, and Christos Tejada. The evening brings together Greek mythology, post-porn aesthetics, and sound-based performance.
On May 11, we will open The Wreck and not the Story of the Wreck, a solo exhibition by Oakland and Puerto Rico-based artist Sofía Córdova. The project presents an extensive body of work that looks to science fiction as alternative revolutionary history, addressing ecological destruction, collaboration, and the mythic and organizational frameworks through which we make sense of the unimaginable.