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Relational Reconstructions

Teachers
Jeffrey Yoo Warren, Dri Chiu Tattersfield⁣
Date
Section 1: January 15, 2025 to March 26, 2025
Section 2: January 17, 2025 to March 21, 2025

(10 classes)
Time
Section 1: Wednesdays, 7:30-10:30pm EST Section 2: Fridays, 8-11am EST
Location
Online (Zoom)
Cost
$1200 Scholarships available learn more...
Deadline
Applications open until November 17, 2024

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Description

Experiences with archives, their gaps and harms, can be both painful and fruitful for people of color since these materials offer glimpses into possible pasts and futures. In this class we will use archival records, interactive historical fiction, 3D and photographic worldbuilding, multi-sensory immersion, and Saidya Hartman’s concept of critical fabulation to facilitate the development of ancestral relationships. We will explore techniques for weaving ancestral spaces into our lives, while learning about the work of artists, writers, poets, and game designers who have used various methods to write themselves into their own pasts.

Outcomes

Holiday Schedule

No class on January 29th / Lunar New Year

Course of Study

  • Week 1: Ground ourselves, our pasts & each other
  • Week 2: Dig in to & outside of archives
  • Week 3: Crafting ourselves into ancestral enclaves
  • Week 4: Reconnect with ancestral crafts, practices & knowledge
  • Week 5: Evoke non-visual senses
  • Week 6: Hide virtual artifacts & portals
  • Week 7: Make paper worlds
  • Week 8: Prototype projects
  • Week 9: Workshop projects
  • Week 10: Share projects

Expectations

  • Participants can expect to spend three to four hours each week doing assignments including small projects, drawing/journaling, reading, watching, or listening.
  • During the last three to four classes, time spent on assignments will increase as participants prepare their final projects which could take the form of virtual enclave-building and paper enclave building using techniques we’ll learn in class.
  • Participants can expect to learn a variety of creative techniques ranging from digital to papercraft as forms of reconnecting with ancestors, building skills and support systems for engaging with archives and ancestry, and to being in a supportive group of peers on a similar journey.
Disclaimer
  • This is a class made for BIPOC participants. Asian, Black, and Brown applicants will be especially prioritized in the application review process.

Is this class for me?

This class may be for you if you:

  • Want to reconnect with your heritage or ancestry.
  • Are interested in how your creative process (be it writing, crafting, singing, cooking etc) helps you on such a journey.
  • Are navigating a complex relationship with archival materials and their colonial legacies, among other issues.
  • Wish you could step into a picture of your grandparent and look around.

This class may not be for you if:

  • You want to build advanced 3d modeling skills.
  • Your interest in archival materials isn’t deeply personal.
  • You think you would be perfectly comfortable if you were transported into the past.

Testimonials

  • “I really loved learning about how this new tool could be used to create a multi-sensory, multi-dimensional, spatial memory of a place/feeling of a place. I loved how it was taught in an entertaining way (our instructor as a bird), and just really helped me put myself out of the box to think differently.”
  • “It felt both cozy and vastly magical.”
  • “Loved the chances for small connections and shared insights across memory enclaves -- that's what makes memories so wonderful, the capacity for people in your present to build upon them! Also the specific suggestions that were preemptively typed up prior to the workshop -- felt like they were not just wonderful suggestions but that they also came with readily available pathways of execution on that day.”

Meet the Teachers

teacher

Jeffrey Yoo Warren

Jeffrey Yoo Warren (he/him) is a Korean American artist-educator, community scientist, illustrator, and researcher in Providence, RI, who collaboratively creates community science projects which decenter dominant culture in environmental knowledge production. His recent work combines ancestral craft practices and creative work with diasporic memory through virtual collaborative worldbuilding. Jeff is an educator with Movement Education Outdoors and AS220, and part of the New Old art collective with Aisha Jandosova, hosting art-making and storytelling events with older adults; he is also the 2023 Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress. His current artistic practice investigates how people build identity and strength through their interactions with artifacts and histories, and the ways that objects can tell stories that people can be part of in the present.

he/him · website · twitter · instagram

teacher

Dri Chiu Tattersfield⁣

Dri Chiu Tattersfield experiments with zines, games, and speculative fiction towards futures that hold everyone they love. They are interested in connecting with alternative histories of science and ancestral ways of knowing, both as a high school physics educator and in their (inter)personal art practice. He dreams about memory, zines as altars, and altars as portals. Dri’s friends joke that he thinks everything is a zine, which he does. They are a member of NEW INC Year 10 in the Creative Science Track and a fellow of the 2023 Lambda Literary Writers Retreat in the Speculative Fiction cohort. Dri lives in Taipei, Taiwan.

they/he · website · twitter · instagram

How do I apply?

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Applications open until Applications closed on November 17, 2024.

You can expect to hear back from us about the status of your application on December 3, 2024. Please email us at admissions@sfpc.study with any questions you have.

How much does it cost to attend?

For 10 classes, it costs $1200 + processing fees, for a one-time payment. We also offer payment plans. Participants can schedule weekly or monthly payments of the same amount. First and last payments must be made before the start and end of class. *Processing fees apply for each payment.

SFPC processes all payments via Withfriends and Stripe. Please email admissions@sfpc.study if these payment options don't work for you.

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