Art in Conversation • HT22 Artist Michael Joo + Marques Hanalei Marzan
FRI • APRIL 8, 2022
6pm–7pm
Gulab & Indru Watumull Atrium
(behind Castle Hall)
Bishop Museum
1525 Bernice Street
Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96817
Join us as Hawai‘i Triennial 2022 (HT22) artist Michael Joo will be in conversation with Marques Hanalei Marzan, The Wayne Pitluck & Judith Pyle Curator for Cultural Resilience, Bishop Museum. New York-based Joo and Marzan will discuss the collaborative research process behind Joo’s project for HT22 and how the cultural collections of Bishop Museum inspired his work. Following the conversation, tour Castle Gallery with Marzan during Bishop Museum’s After Hours until 9pm.
ADMISSION • Free with Bishop Museum Membership and HT22 All-Access Pass. Admission is $20 (adult), $10 (kama‘āina), $5 (keiki, ages 4–17). Parking ($3, free for members) available onsite. This program is part of Bishop Museum’s After Hours (5:30pm–9pm).
Registration recommended. Bishop Museum members and HT22 All-Access Pass holders can register for free admission by calling (808) 847-8296.
Michael Joo uses sculpture, performance, and installation in his work, as well as a combination of scientific language, processes, and complex structures that speak to liminality, access, and transmission. His artwork is included in the collections of Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; LACMA and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. For HT22, Joo developed a sculptural installation in response to kapa in Bishop Museum’s collections. Working with multimedia artists Yixuan Shao and Bicheng Liang, the work ruminates on human relationships to deep time, space, and land.
Marques Hanalei Marzan is a Hawaiian and Oceanic fibers culture bearer and contemporary visual artist born and raised in Kāne‘ohe, Hawaiʻi. He trained under esteemed experts in Hawai‘i including master weavers Julia Minerva Ka‘awa and Esther Kakalia Westmoreland. As a cultural advisor at Bishop Museum, Marzan promotes the integration of indigenous mindsets and practices within the Museum field. He assists cultural practitioners and the community with engaging ancestors and their creative expressions at the Museum and recognizes the need to legitimize indigenous voices. Marzan bridges the innovations of the past with those of the present, creating dialogues within his work and community engagement that speak to the vibrancy and dynamism of culture.
