Studio Sessions
Making a Record
with Takming Chuang
May 2025
About the Studio Session
When is a document an archival record of an artwork, when does it become the artwork, and when does it transform into an entirely new piece? Whether one engages with clay in conventional or experimental ways, the necessity for documentation is omnipresent and inescapable. Documentation is essential for the administrative side of making (websites, social media, grant and residency applications), as archives of our personal history as artists, and as notes to our future selves.
This Studio Session examines what is lost and gained when making a record and questions where art is located: is it within the object or the location of the object’s display, in the artist’s hand or as an invisible process, or as an image that captures a range of these possibilities?
About the Lead Artist
Takming Chuang is a multimedia artist who explores the interplay between preservation and impermanence. His work has been featured in exhibitions and residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts CA, the Berkeley Art Museum CA, SculptureCenter NY, White Columns NY, Hessel Museum of Art NY, Camden Arts Centre UK, among others. He received an MFA from UC Berkeley (2017) and a BA in Economics (2000) from SUNY Binghamton. Born in New York City (1978), Chuang lives in San Francisco and works in Oakland. He lectured at UC Berkeley and Sonoma State before joining San Francisco University Highschool as a ceramics teacher last August. (include one sentence about August solo at Binghamton University, NY here)
Logistics
This session is scheduled for Saturdays May 3, 10, 17, 24 from 10am-noon PST (that’s Los Angeles time).
Registration is $250 and includes all four sessions.
Participants gather via Zoom.