HT22 ARTIST TALKS • JUSTINE YOUSSEF • HERMAN PI‘IKEA CLARK

May 8

Part of our HT22 Closing Weekend celebrations, we gather in Waikīkī for two compelling artist conversations and a public reception.

HT22 artist Justine Youssef, visiting from Wangal and Dharug lands, joins Hawai‘i-based artist Reem Bassous to discuss their respective art practices with HT22 associate curator Miwako Tezuka. Youssef’s work for HT22, With the toughest care, The most economical tenderness, centers on Blessed Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum), a therapeutic plant native to Lebanon that was introduced by settlers to Maui and has since become noxious and invasive in Makawao. With the toughest care, The most economical tenderness shares thematic links with Bassous’ work on invasive cane toads, and it underscores the ways in which non-Indigenous communities interact with and impact Hawaiian Lands.

HT22 artist Herman Pi‘ikea Clark will be in conversation with HT22 associate curator Drew Kahu‘āina Broderick. Departing from Clark's installation, Poʻo ʻOle, developed for HT22, the open discussion will center on his decades-long art, design, and educational practices at home in Hawaiʻi and abroad.