After Chloe Honum

A dove often flutters down to me from a sudden slit in the air, with a sound like a fan shuttering open. No one else can see it. I used to feel frantic trying to convince other people it was real. Now I have stopped - not out of disappointment, but because I love the bond that only exists between the dove and me, a knowing that needs no one else to make it matter. I must appear strange to other people, like a figure dancing in complete silence. If there is a dove on my shoulder in the refracted world, and I don’t want it to fly away, how will I walk around this room? Every step with the dove in mind. Every movement to preserve our tender sanctity.

Inez Tan is the author of This Is Where I Won't Be Alone: Stories, which was a national bestseller in Singapore. A recent Kundiman fellow, she has won the Academy of American Poets Prize, and her writing has been featured in Rattle, The Rumpus, Hyphen, and Fairy Tale Review. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan and an MFA in poetry at the University of California, Irvine.

Madeline Hollander (b. 1986, Los Angeles) is an artist who works with performance, video, and installation to explore how human movement and body language negotiate their limits within everyday systems of technology, intellectual property law, and daily ritual. Her work presents continuously looping events that intervene within spatial, psychological, and temporal landscapes and engage with alternate modes of viewership, replication, and archiving. Hollander earned a BA from Barnard College of Columbia University and an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. She has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2021); the Visual Arts Center, University of Austin, Texas (2021); Bortolami, NY (2020); the Artist’s Institute, NY (2018); Bosse & Baum, UK (2017); and SIGNAL, Brooklyn, NY (2016). Her work has been featured in the Whitney Biennial (2019); the Aldrich Museum, CT (2020); Helsinki Contemporary, Finland (2019); Serpentine Galleries, UK (2018); the Centre Pompidou Metz, France (2019); and the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2017). Upcoming projects include the Performa Biennial 2021 in NYC and ARCH Athens, Greece, 2022.