Truthtellers Exhibition

Between You and Me:

A handshake workshop and Event with Rene Yung
Saturday, November 23rd, 2–4 PM
Atrium at 1275 Minnesota Street.

Join us for a special handshake workshop with Rene Yung. With this free drop-in workshop, visitors are asked to shake hands across a dividing line marked on the floor, holding between their palms a malleable piece of clay which captures the imprint of their handshake. This imprint, unique to each handshake, is the three-dimensional shape of a moment shared between two people in the basic gesture of greeting and symbolic trust. The workshop will begin with a short discussion behind the various customs of handshakes and participants will be invited to write down a few words about what comes to mind during their handshake. This workshop initiates Yung’s socially engaged installation “Between You and Me” which is included in the upcoming group exhibition Truthtellers at SFArtsED.

 

About the Artist:

Rene Yung is an internationally exhibiting artist, designer, writer and thinker, whose poetic and incisive works fluidly cross disciplines to address social and cultural issues in the globalized environment. She develops innovative forms of civic engagement that connect people, history, and place, to reveal overlooked patterns and articulate hidden narratives. Her work has been exhibited at international venues including TransCulture, part of the 46th Venice Biennale; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. She has created extensive public projects for national institutions including the Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, the City of Oakland Cultural Arts and Marketing Division, and the Goldman Institute on Aging, San Francisco. Yung is the recipient of many grant awards, including from the San Francisco Foundation, the Creative Work Fund, the California Council on the Humanities, and the Center for Cultural Innovation.

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