Artists Space

Ken Chen is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College. His poetry collection, Juvenilia, was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award by Louise Glück. His forthcoming book, tentatively titled Death Star, follows his journey to the underworld to rescue his father and his encounters there with those destroyed by colonialism.

Cici Wu is a New York based artist who was born in Beijing and grew up in Hong Kong. Reducing filmmaking to its most humble and elemental components, she creates drawings, objects, videos, and installations which extend the imaginative and structural premises of cinematic language across a wide range of media.

Ju Ly Ban is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and teaches composition at Baruch College. Her research brings Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s archives into conversation with Black feminism and queer kinship.