The Underworlding residency, convened by UCSB Art Professor Kim Yasuda, assembles a diverse group of California-based practitioners and community knowledge holders for the first time as an exploratory cohort in residence at our Lucas Artists Program (LAP) from May 16 – June 24, 2022.
Underworlding, as a practice, counters the extractivist logics embedded in our institutions that have surfaced in the current pandemic to reveal essential realities over whose body, whose labor, and whose land has been exploited in the uneven settlements of our social order between precarity and privilege. This residency draws individuals who share a grounded ethos and anchor their practices across and beneath surfaces, generations, genders, and racial formations to ‘upend’ the erased and colonized knowledge holdings of their disciplines. Their work unearths the spirit and detritus of unceded/violated territories and embodiments of land, labor, materiality, and power.
For this Open Access event, members of the cohort will discuss their project, practice, as well as explore the themes they have been researching as part of the Underworlding project.