Courtesy the Anderson Collection at Stanford University
Erika Chong Shuch: 1,000 Ways to Hold
SEPTEMBER 16-DECEMBER 11, 2027
The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present Erika Chong Shuch: 1,000 Ways to Hold, on view on the 10th floor September 16–December 11, 2027. Originally staged at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University (April 2–August 17, 2026), this community-building project is deeply rooted in conversation and clay. Beginning in October 2026, Shuch and FLAG will host a series of workshops across New York. In these sessions, pairs of participants will sit together to shape ceramic bowls while reflecting on the question: “What have you held, and what has held you?” Their recorded answers will form an archive, and all 1,000 bowls will be gathered and activated within the exhibition to share the makers’ stories. Part collective portrait and part collaborative artwork, 1,000 Ways to Hold demonstrates how small acts of making and listening can preserve memory, foster care, and build community.
About:
Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, and performance maker whose work spans experimental performance and social practice, often inventing unexpected forms of audience engagement. Since 2000, her original work frequently features intergenerational casts of artists and non-artists. Her projects often center people whose lives and labor sit outside the spotlight, broadening ideas of where and how art-making begins.
She is the founder of For You, a performance group that brings strangers together and explores performance as a form of gift-giving. For You’s works range from intimate encounters to large-scale public parties and have been commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Court Theater (Chicago), The Momentary (AK), Cantor Arts Center, and Edge on the Square (Chinatown SF).