Join our friends at IAS for a special walk-through of Seeing through Stone with the Tea Project (Amber Ginsburg & Aaron Hughes). In addition to speaking about their own work in the exhibition, Remaking the Exceptional (2022), they will reflect on a selection of other works. This event is free and open to the public.

The Tea Project traces the ongoing relationships between the military and global policing. Drawing on the image of the “torture tree” (Laurence Ralph, The Torture Letters, 2020) as a metaphor for torture reaching across borders, the Tea Project focuses on uncovering moments of beauty and shared humanity when technologies of violence are co-opted or converted into systems of community-building.

Reflecting on over a decade of the project’s research and compiling stories, Remaking the Exceptional is a series of nine screenprints highlighting the interwoven relations between state violence and creative resistance. The works track the often latent connections between tea, torture, and survival, and how they coexist in a complex global network.

Location

Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
100 Panetta Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95060