Ask the Pandemic

Ask the Pandemic What would you ask the Pandemic if you could? Give voice to your questions--on Post-its! Be part of Write more notes if you have more questions! Right now!

the Pandemic is a participatory project that unfolds simultaneously as an installation at Headlands Center for the Arts and on social media. It creates a collective space to voice the questions that come up as the pandemic shapes our lives. Join in creating this space by sharing your questions — specifically, write them on Post-it notes! For each question received, a Post-it will be added to

a large wall in the installation. This format is inspired by Lennon Walls all over the world, that are covered with Post-it notes carrying public expressions as a form of social statement. With the the Pandemic virtual "wall", anyone, anywhere can contribute questions and see what others are asking.

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Write down your question on a 3”x3” post-it note and share it with us—digitally or by snail mail. Ask as many questions as you like—just one question per sticky note. Feel free to submit more than once. Include some identifying info (optional) with your submission — first name, age, city &/or state, to help give a sense of the project community. For digital submissions, include this in the caption. For snail mail, pls include on a separate note along with your Post-it. Share your questions in any of the following ways, or combine digital submission with snail mailing the actual sticky note(s):

//// INSTAGRAM - Write your question on a sticky note, snap a photo, and post on your Instagram with hashtag and tag in your caption along w/ any identifying info. Make sure your written question is legible and the Post-it is identifiable. Otherwise feel free to get creative!

//// EMAIL - Email photo of your sticky as attachment to: [email protected] with “ ” in the subject line, and we'll post it on Instagram. Include any identifying info you’d like to share.

//// MAIL - Mail your sticky note(s) to: Ask the Pandemic, P.O. Box 460808, San Francisco, CA 94146-0808, by October 20. If you’d like to get friends and family in on the project, you can send your group’s post-it notes all together. Include any identifying info you’d like to share.

//// WHAT TO ASK? Whatever you'd like to ask the Pandemic — but No abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable language or content.

///// WHEN IS THIS HAPPENING? The installation will come down at the end of October—please be sure to mail any actual Post-it questions for receipt by October 20. We want to reach a critical mass of sticky notes AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, covering as much of the installation wall as we can in this limited time.

====>>>>> SHARE WIDELY! Get your friends and community involved!

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https://mailchi.mp/reneyung.com/happy-new-year-of-the-tigrrrrr?e=[UNIQID]

For some reason Mailchimp didn't auto-populate to FB - but we celebrate New Year for a whole week, so here's to a roaring good year!

Rene Yung is a transdisciplinary artist who connects community, place, and history in incisive, poetic works that give voice to the hidden and overlooked. , Headlands Center for the ArtExploratorium the Creative Work Fund, Humanities California, The San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco Arts ...

Winter Solstice Greetings! May your holidays be warm, safe, and nourishing --
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After a time of decay comes the turning point. The powerful light that has been banished returns. — I Ching

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Join artist Rene Yung on a virtual journey over Zoom that traverses visual art, civic engagement, writing, history, archaeology, and cultural activism, and weaves together memory and belonging, community and place.

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Thanks to  for hosting today’s “Artists Honoring Women” program that was live streamed on Facebook and Youtube. I had a ...
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Thanks to for hosting today’s “Artists Honoring Women” program that was live streamed on Facebook and Youtube. I had a great time talking about the sweep of my 15-year project Chinese Whispers, which unfolded from Idaho to the Sierra Foothills, to San Francisco Bay, with lots of pictures and stories. And really enjoyed the conversation with Amanda Dawson of Arts Build Community. If you didn’t get a chance to watch the live stream, you can catch the recorded video on Facebook or Youtube:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b5L4_VqP_M0&feature=youtu.be

Facebook:
https://fb.watch/5mJoO-eo6u/

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05/08/2021

A big thank you to Womanhood, and to everyone including guests from the East Coast and Asia who came to my talk today about Chinese Whispers. If you weren't able to make the live event please check out this recorded video, it has lots of back stories, information, and cool visuals, and an invigorating conversation with Womanhood team member Amanda Dawson.

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The lessons of this shameful legacy clearly have not sunk in. The resurgence of anti-Asian violence may reflect today’s geopolitics and national divide, but the underlying zenophobia and racism are tragically unchanged.

Let history not repeat itself.

#1882. .

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Please join me this Saturday May 8 at 12 noon at the “Artists Honoring Women” online artists talk presented by Womanhood, a project with the County of Santa Clara Office of Women’s Policy.

Register at: https://ArtistsHonoringWomen.Eventbrite.com
Streams live on FB and Youtube.

I will talk about my multi-year, multiplatform project Chinese Whispers, dedicated to bringing to light the overlooked history and contributions of the Chinese in the American West. I will talk about some of the backstory of the project, larger social history context, especially in relation to the current anti-Asian resurgence, as well as stories, process, lessons learned, community engagement, and show lots of cool visuals. Do come!

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 . Lachrimae: Latin for tears, weeping. Alas, the world is not done with things to weep for, much as many people want to...
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. Lachrimae: Latin for tears, weeping. Alas, the world is not done with things to weep for, much as many people want to turn away from tears.
Author Arundhati Roy writes compellingly in the Guardian about the COVID-19 catastrophe in India happening right now, even as Americans begin to revel in the relaxation offered by vaccine roll-out. Worth a read https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/28/crime-against-humanity-arundhati-roy-india-covid-catastrophe

What/who do you mourn? What do you want to ? Write in Comments below, or DM me, or write on a sticky note, snap a photo and post on IG tag

While the installation at has come down, your words translate to post-it notes for the next iteration of at in Seattle, that will launch in May.

The post-it installations were inspired by the in Hong Kong’s democracy protests, and began as a wall installation at last Fall, then popped up on Headlands’s original kitchen table, and will takes new life up in the Pacific North West. At the same time, it continues to live in the space we’re creating here on Instagram as an ongoing project.

Be part of the family and keep adding your voice!
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