Event Info
On Fri, November 21 and Sat, November 22 gather at BRIC House for special artist-led tours by Sarah K. Khan of her exhibition, Speak Sing Shout: We, Too, Sing America. This event is in support of Fall of Freedom, a nationwide call for the arts community to unite through exhibitions, performances, and public cultural events to uphold artistic expression and democracy — celebrating the diverse experiences and identities that shape this country. Tours start on the hour at 2PM, 3PM, and 4PM.
Inspired by pre-colonial Indian Ocean worlds, Sarah K. Khan explores the cultures, languages, sounds, and scents she embodies — salvaging submerged narratives and transposing them onto blue-and-white porcelains, layered prints, and film.
“Sarah K. Khan’s exhibition at BRIC, combining ceramics, printmaking, video, digital animation, and text, dives into histories of colonialism, global migration, maritime trade, foodways, cartography, unruly women in the African, Arab, and Asian worlds, contemporary diasporas, and much else… these ideas are so capacious that each one spills over into the next.” — Aruna D’Souza, Hyperallergic
“The show encapsulates a worldview that expands inclusivity, and an exploration of the multitudes we each carry within. Dialogues around the exhibit can intervene and expand narratives about what it means to be human through the complexity and richness we each carry.” — Sarah K. Khan
Commissioned as part of What Can Become of Us? — a collaboration between the Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies and Zócalo Public Square — Khan’s work invites us to imagine how communities can come together across differences.