UPCOMING CONVERSATION

The camera opened a cave¹: A Conversation with Allie Tsubota and K Yin

Location:
154 Ludlow Street, NYC

Date:
November 7, 2026

Hours:
2-4 PM

UPCOMING CONVERSATION

The camera opened a cave¹: A Conversation with Allie Tsubota and K Yin

Join us on Saturday, November 7th from 2–4pm for a conversation between artist Allie Tsubota and K Yin, PhD Candidate in the Department of American Studies at Brown University. The conversation is held on the occasion of the closing of Tsubota’s solo exhibition Milk Teeth, currently on view at BAXTER ST. Drawing on Yin’s research into 19th-century photographic archives and representations of diasporic Asian labor in the American landscape, the speakers will pull on narrative and visual threads within the exhibition, including themes of extraction, critical and geological speculation, and the ethical quandaries of creative acts that unsettle historical space.

  1. From Brandon Shimoda, The Grave on the Wall (City Lights Books, 2019), 104.
ABOUT ALLIE TSUBOTA

Allie Tsubota is an artist whose work explores the intersections of race, visuality, and the formation of historical memory. Her projects bring together photography, video, photographic and cinematic archives, and text to examine visual spectatorship across racialized space and collapsed historical time. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and in Japan.

Tsubota has participated in residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, the Studios at MASS MoCA, Visual Studies Workshop, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and ARCUS Project in Japan. She has received recognition from Aperture and the New York Foundation for the Arts, among others. Tsubota holds an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and teaches photography at Parsons School of Design.

ABOUT K YIN

K Yin (they/them) is a scholar, educator, and curator. Their research and teaching focuses on Asian American art and visual culture, relational ethnic studies, and the environment. Their current project examines the work of contemporary artists who engage sites in the American West as Asian American archives, tracing how ruins in the landscape register the enduring material afterlives of settler colonial racial capitalism. Shifting between the nineteenth century and the present, their work explores how aesthetic practices shift attention from recovery and representation toward relational orientations to history, place, and the (im)possibility of repair. They are currently a PhD Candidate in American Studies at Brown University.

Location:
154 Ludlow Street, NYC

Date:
November 7, 2026

Hours:
2-4 PM