C You Saturday! – January 2025

Please join us at ICA San Diego / North on Saturday, January 18 for the opening of Ethan Chan & David Peña: Heavy as Ghosts.

This free art event in San Diego is part of ICA’s commitment to reduce barriers to contemporary art in our community.

4 PM – 6:30 PM | All-Ages Art Making  

Join us at ICA San Diego North Campus for this month’s C You Saturday. Create a collage inspired by the materials and forms used by Artists in Residence, David Peña and Ethan Chan. Reflect your unique perspective on healing through layered textures and meaningful compositions of everyday objects.

4:00 – 5:00 pm | Performance by Ethan Chan

In this durational performance piece by Ethan Chan, Ethan replicates the setting where his father spends his time when he’s unable to go to work. Ethan dresses up in his father’s daily at-home attire and traps himself in a space with nothing but his dad’s favorite food, a microwave, and a television, set to change channels every 10 seconds. In this space, the artist does not communicate with anyone or leave the room, and his only activities are sitting, eating, and watching TV. 

Thinking about the act of doomscrolling as a modern outlet for loneliness and boredom, a comparison can be drawn to the earlier act of channel-surfing. Constantly flicking through TV channels every few seconds for long periods of time results in both time passing and little to no entertainment or information being absorbed. As a kid, Ethan would sit with his dad (who identifies as a workaholic) on his days off at home while he channel-surfed. When Ethan once asked him why he did that for hours on end, he responded by saying, “what else am I going to do?”.

5:00 – 6:00 PM | Panel Discussion feat. David Peña and Guests 

Mapping Loss: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Grief and Healing Panel with David Peña, Mira Masukawa, and Selena Jong.

Join exhibiting artist David Peña for a special panel discussion on grief and general healing. Peña will be joined by Mira Masukawa of San Diego Grief Counseling and California Grief Therapy Center Inc., and Selena Jong, certified death doula.

^{David Peña: David Peña is a visual artist whose work considers resilience in the face of loss and grief, and explores how we carry on links to ancestral cultures even after our elders, our links to those cultures, have passed on. In his practice, he engages questions of generational healing and care through his Mexican-American identity. In the exhibition of his work at ICA, David focuses on the life of his abuelo Encarnación, a welder for NASSCO (National Steel and Shipbuilding Company) in Barrio Logan, San Diego, who welded the front yard fence to their family home.}

^{Mira Masukawa: Mira Masukawa is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, the founder of San Diego Grief Counseling, and leader of California Grief Therapy Center Inc. Her work focuses on grief, complicated grief, trauma, anxiety, and caregiver fatigue. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapy, with research focused on the role of rituals and therapy in healing grief. Mira’s accomplishments include being featured on CBS San Diego News during Hispanic Heritage Month, as well as being included in Facebook’s Hall of Her as one of twelve women celebrated for Women’s History Month.}

^{Selena Jong: Selena Jong is a certified death doula, also known as an end-of-life guide. Death doulas are non-medical professionals who provide holistic support to individuals and their loved ones during the dying process. Death doulas offer compassionate care and guidance to individuals and their care circles as they navigate end of life, and work alongside medical professionals, hospice teams, and caregivers to ensure the individual’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs are met during their end of life journey. Selena is also a hospice volunteer, sits bedside with the 11th Hour program at Sharp Grossmont Hospital and hosts a monthly Death Cafe discussion group.}

6:00 – 7:00 PM | Music by Guest DJ

Music selected by David Peña inspired by his exhibition.

4 PM – 7 PM | Food, Drinks and Socializing

We hope to C you there!

ICA San Diego / North
1578 El Camino Real, Encinitas, CA 92024

Saturday, January 18, 2025
4:00 – 7:00 PM
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