Workshops and events explore the role of hope in our lives and our communities. They have been developed in collaboration with participants from the After Hope program, community partners, local authors, artists, and activists.
Salt’s screening program Glad We Made It On Time, organized in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, features a selection of video works from Palestine to Hong Kong, Indonesia to Iraq and India, exploring the notion of humor as a survival methodology in conflicted times. The program investigates the different forms that humor can take in a post-apocalyptic world, ranging from mythological symbols and collective fantasies to subtle gestures and absurd plots.
Keisha N. Knight, Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Zeina Barakeh, and Ufuoma Essi discuss how their practices and processes bridge ruptures in time and history.
Hear from contemporary artists about how they are using science fiction, speculative narrative, mythology, and future folklore to question and redefine queer futures.
Jane Jin Kaisen and Ashley Yihsin Chang discuss displacement and diaspora and the roles that that artists and curators play as place-makers and community builders.
