Wendy’s Subway, Library Exchange Exhibition view at YPC SPACE ©YPC SPACEYellow Pen Club (YPC) presents “How to Become Collective(s)” at YPC SPACE through January 20.
This exhibition shows the process of how YPC exchanged and interacted with five voluntary collectives that operate in similar ways to their own. These collectives exist outside of institutions and operate outside of the logic of the system, while at the same time interacting with and influencing the system to some degree. Encounters, conversations, and exchanges with people who are outside the system, but who also talk about the system, and sometimes become the system, meet the visitors in an indeterminate form.
‘Wendy’s Subway’, one of the participating collectives, is a nonprofit reading room, writing space, and independent publisher in Brooklyn, New York. They support emerging writers and artists in making experimental, urgent work and create alternative modes of learning and thinking in community. ‘The White Pube’, a collective founded in 2015 by Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad, is based in London, UK, and writes about art, video games, books, food, life, and the weather, etc. The Korean collective ‘The Journal of Rat’ has been meeting privately for two years since its founding in 2021, writing, publishing in online spaces, and organizing research sessions on the subjects and conditions of artistic creation. ‘Frida’, a Singapore-based exhibition space founded by Singaporean artist Lai Yu Tong in 2023, also participated in the exhibition. Frida features small works by one local or international artist hanging in its windows for one to two weeks. Lastly, ‘AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research)’, a platform that has been engaging in feminist-based contemporary art, research, activism, and community-based practice since 2021, participated.
“How to Become Collective(s)” will be accompanied by programs including talks, workshops, and events.
