Stephanie Syjuco

Institutional repositories, archives, and museums are tasked with housing cultural collections, framing narratives, and creating research opportunities for future generations. What happens when the holes, blank spots, mislabeled categories, and margins of an archive reveal more about who isn't included in a national story?

Syjuco will share recent projects drawing on research from online databases, internet searches, civic libraries, and museum archives. At stake is an understanding of how archives (and images) function to reinforce and reinscribe existing power structures, creating barriers for placing oneself into the line of history.

Diversities in Practice

A new collaboration with Ohio State’s Wexner Center for the Arts, Department of Art, and Living Culture Initiative, this series will include talks and moderated discussions that feature artists engaged in social justice-oriented projects and practices. Working in varied media, Christine Sun Kim, Stephanie Syjuco, and others will challenge our assumptions by taking a complex, and sometimes personal look at issues of accessibility discrimination, race-based displacement, capitalism, labor, and systems of authority and authenticity. These presentations will be available to view online throughout 2020–21 as well as options to watch with a small ticketed audience at the Wex. Check wexarts.org for updates and details.
 

Interested in appearing on camera at the Wexner Center as part of this talk? Ten free tickets are available for students and the public to watch this artist talk at the Wex in Free Space. You’ll be featured on camera for the artist and online viewers as well as have the ability to participate in the Q&A. Please email education@wexarts.org with questions or to reserve a ticket by Mon, Oct 12, at 5 pm.

Above: Dodge and Burn (Visible Storage), 2019 (detail)
Wooden platform, digital photos and printed vinyl on lasercut wood, chromakey fabric, printed backdrops, seamless paper, and artificial plants
Mixed media
20 x 17 x 8. ft. overall
Part of the solo exhibition Stephanie Syjuco: Rogue States at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2019
Photo: Stephanie Syjuco