Playful exchange and interconnection. Light & informal. Fringe. Small-scale. Conversation-driven.
An experiential workshop, ‘Expanding Windows,’ delivered in Dalat, Vietnam, in March 2020. This was a program that was part of a series of events for Cultural and Creative Hubs of Vietnam to meet, together, and uncover new potential ways of working. At least, that was … Read more‘Expanding Windows’
DK: ‘I was wondering if I could do something with you guys.’ OAF: ‘What?’ DK: ‘Something for Oulu Arts Festival, I think?’ OAF: ‘Let’s talk.’ DK: ‘Yes, lets!’ *** Café Tuokio Pakkahuoneenkatu 7 13–16 Zine Workshop: Hei Kesä. Zines. Conversation. Real life. In an … Read more‘Hei Kesä’ at Oulu Arts Festival
‘WHAT ABOUT if?’ Choices. A conversation installation. … Read moreChoices
Cambodian design. Art. Aesthetics. Something was in this place, something I had never before seen. Vernacular architecture enchanted, the moment I landed in Phnom Penh. I stayed five years. It didn’t quit, the old mood of returning, whenever I was gone for a while to … Read moreDiscover Khmer Design
WHO: 16 strangers WHERE: Milk Green Tea, Phnom Penh WHEN: March 2014 WHAT: A salon using the ‘unconference’ method ORIGIN: ‘What is fromness?’ was inspired by the talk, ‘Ask me where I’m local’ by Taiye Selasi: ‘When someone asks you where you’re from … do you sometimes … Read moreOrigin: ‘What is fromness?’
WHO: Sonam Tashi Gyaltsen, Dipika Kohli, Guests WHERE: B. R. E. W., Gangtok WHEN: October 2013 WHAT: A conversation salon series WHY: I love to gather people for remarkable connections, which means mixing things up quite a bit. You get out of your usual box, you run … Read moreModern Sikkim
[Updated 10.2020] After a decade away from my hometown of Raleigh-Durham, NC, I kept bumping into people I knew. Who were my old colleagues in the fields I was just starting to work in: photography, mostly, for a newspaper. Some freelance creative writing, too. I … Read moreOpen Space Workshop: ‘The State of Publishing’