On January 28, join NYC-based artist Mimi Bai for an intercity conversation with Boston-based artists Gohar Dashti and Ngoc-Tran Vu at Pao Arts Center. This conversation is in support of Bai's solo exhibition Mimi Bai: HIDE AND SEE, curated by Amanda Contrada, that is currently on view at the BCA Mills Gallery.

Drawing from different regions of the Asian diaspora, each artist utilizes varying conceptual approaches to explore themes of migration, home, and community through their work. Their overlapping and contrasting practices in video, photography, mixed media and public art raise anthropological and sociological questions around assimilation in new geographies.

After the conversation, take a short walk from Pao Arts Center to the Mills Gallery, and join artist Mimi Bai for an artist walkthrough of her solo exhibition, HIDE AND SEE. Artist gallery hours start at 4 pm that Saturday. This program is organized by Pao Arts Center and Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) in connection with HIDE AND SEE, a solo exhibition by Mimi Bai, curated by Amanda Contrada. On view at the BCA Mills Gallery from Friday, December 16 to Saturday, February 18, 2023.

The following week, on Saturday, Feb. 4 at 4:00pm in the BCA Plaza Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts will host a film screening of Hide and See with an accompanying live score. Hide and See is an experimental narrative film collaboration between Sam B. Jones and Mimi Bai that activates Bai's clay and textile sculptures, transforming them into shrouds for two ghostly figures. For this special screening, the film's composer Zain Alam (Humeysha) will perform a blended live and recorded score, followed by a conversation with Mimi Bai, Zain Alam, and Sam B. Jones.

Agenda for Jan. 28, 2023

2 PM | Pao Arts Center, Chinatown | Artist Conversation: Mimi Bai in dialogue with artists Gohar Dashti and Ngoc-Tran Vu

4 PM |Mills Gallery, at Boston Center for the Arts, South End |Walkthrough with the artist Mimi Bai of her show HIDE AND SEE

Agenda for Feb. 4, 2023

4:00pm | BCA Plaza Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts | Film Screening with live score followed by a Q/A with the film's directors Mimi Bai and Sam B. Jones, and composer Zain Alam (Humeysha).