We are delighted to invite you to the launch of She Follows no Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader with a reading and discussion from editors Juwon Jun and Rachel Valinsky, followed by a reading by neneh noï. Published in May 2024 by Wendy's Subway, She Follows No Progression reflects on the plurality of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s work and legacy, collecting essays, personal narratives, poems, conversations, letters, and the extratextual in a reader that attests to Cha’s genre-bending vision and political imagination. 

Schedule:
19:30-21:00 Presentation and Readings

About She Follows No Progression
She Follows No Progression reflects on the plurality of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982)’s work and legacy, collecting essays, personal narratives, poems, conversations, letters, and the extratextual in a reader that attests to Cha’s genre-bending vision and political imagination. The writers, artists, scholars, organizers, and educators collected here, each unique in their voice and method, multiply approaches to language, colonial history, migration, and time in dialogue with Cha’s unequivocally interdisciplinary practice. Their contributions traverse subjects from Asian American studies to literary history, translation, film theory, and experimental poetics, while attending to the gaps between these fields and the intractable entanglements of race, class, and gender that underlie them. She Follows No Progression echoes Cha’s appeal for a liberatory horizon emergent from all that we are affixed to in the present.

She Follows No Progression is published on the occasion of the 2022 program, The Quick and the Dead: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Edition. The Quick and the Dead is a yearlong, multiphase project that highlights the life, work, and legacy of a deceased writer by bridging their work to that of contemporary practitioners. In its third year, the program focused on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

About Juwon Jun
Juwon Jun is an artist based in New York. She has shown work with Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, RISD Museum, Brooklyn Women’s Film Festival, Les Femmes Underground Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Boston Center for the Arts, CINEMQ, and more. She is an Associate Editor at Wendy’s Subway. Her writing has appeared in offshoot.

About Rachel Valinsky
Rachel Valinsky is a writer, translator, and editor. She is a co-founder and the Artistic Director at Wendy’s Subway, and currently serves as the Director of Publications at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) in New York. Rachel holds an MPhil in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and teaches courses in art history, performance studies, art writing, and critical thinking at New York University and The New School.

About neneh noï
neneh noï’s practice revolves around language as a bodily and social matter. They create contexts for texts, where performance/performative installations and writing activate each other, seeking entries into writing beyond authorship. They write with, in and as translation. Currently, they are in the process of publishing a children’s book on pre-adolescent non/human intimacies with l’Amazone Editions, of intertwining their gran’s and their own poetry for a poetry collection, and developing a sabotage school within schools.They recently co-organised …It Is Pathetic. I love it., a week-long gathering for experiments in performative reading of text as a collective research on patheticness and anonymity. 

Credits
Images: She Follows No Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader, eds. Juwon Jun and Rachel Valinsky, published by Wendy's Subway, 2024.
Photo: Justin Lubliner.