This, That and What Remains Panel Discussion

This panel asks a basic but difficult question: how does an individual resist oppression?

Moderator: Wang Zi 王紫
Guest speakers: Anran Guo 郭安然, Dr. Yoke-Sum Wong & Tak Pham

It’s WWIII, let’s do something about our political fatigue. This panel asks a basic but difficult question: how does an individual resist oppression? Drawing from artistic practice, lived experience, and cultural work, the conversation looks at how people keep going under pressure. It asks what artists notice, what they hold onto, and what kinds of gestures still matter when direct change feels out of reach. Moving through diaspora, memory, and digital life, the panel stays with forms of resistance that are often quiet, partial, and difficult to measure. Not grand solutions, but ways of continuing. Ways of refusing fear, silence, and disappearance.

Featuring Guest Speakers Anran Guo 郭安然, Dr. Yoke-Sum Wong (Professor, Liberal Studies) & Tak Pham (IKG Curator), and moderated by Wang Zi 王紫, the discussion brings together perspectives reflecting on how creative work responds to crisis, how political exhaustion shapes everyday life, and how people continue to imagine solidarity in fragmented times.

The panel discussion will include a screening of "No One is Coming", a collaborative documentary by Wang Zi 王紫 and Anran Guo 郭安然, featured in Anran Guo's solo exhibition "It Doesn’t Matter Doesn’t Matter 无足轻重无足轻重" at the New Gallery.

No registration required.