Gendai (Marsya Maharani & Petrina Ng)

@ cHURCH OF MONIKA

Sunday: Nov 15, 11am, 2020
on ZOOM, Meeting ID: 884 0132 1380

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Through research about and practice of collective values, Gendai invests in racialized arts practitioners as the next generation of cultural leaders, radical thinkers, and visionaries who embody new pathways towards more equitable futures. 

Gendai offers two related programs: 

Gendai MA MBA (Mastering the Art of Misguided Business Administration) is a ten-month workshop series for DIY art collectives with majority BIPOC membership to improve capacity-building skills in a co-learning environment. Addressing sector-wide challenges of precarity and isolation, this project creates a network for collectives to resource-share, co-learn, collaborate, and improve workplace sustainability. 

Gendai CO-OP is a peer-led accountability program for arts institutions invested in improving racial equity sector-wide. The project co-opts existing practices of a touring curatorial project, a research residency, an institutional audit, and a cultural consultancy process, as well as a co-operative model and a student co-op program. We facilitate a flexible and responsive supportive network between institutions that centre BIPOC perspectives and long-term investment for racial equity in the cultural sector. 

ABOUT 

Throughout its 20-year history, Gendai has supported experimental curatorial and organizational practices. Originally founded as Gendai Gallery, the organization created space for East Asian artists and artists of colour. As the new stewards of Gendai, Marsya Maharani and Petrina Ng are building upon the organization’s legacy of decentering whiteness by investing in the future of BIPOC arts leadership through collective research and practice. 

Petrina and Marsya are informed by their roles and responsibilities as racialized settlers and uninvited guests working and learning on Turtle Island.