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Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective is accepting submissions from Philadelphia-based artists for their fall exhibition, 凤凰 (Fenghuang), which explores themes of grief, dream, and transformation through collective work.
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Get matched →Vox Populi's curatorial residents for An Endless Meeting, Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草, are now accepting submissions for their fall exhibition, 凤凰 (Fenghuang).
If you are a Philadelphia-based artist with a current or past connection to collective work in the city, we encourage you to apply.
We propose to curate through Fenghuang—a composite, relational figure from Chinese cosmology often mistranslated as 'phoenix'—as a framework for working with grief, dream, and transformation. Unlike the solitary bird of heroic burning, Fenghuang is feng and huang held together: a body constantly reimagined through fragments, care, and continual encounter. Associated with the south and with Fire, Fenghuang carries a quiet resonance with the Global South, diasporic movement, and queer ways of living relationally—a homecoming and an unlearning at once. To curate through this figure is to gather collectives into a cosmology that is not linear but circular, less shaped by rupture than by tending: where legacy and hope are not only preserved but permitted to bloom, degenerate, and return—where rebirth unfolds not through spectacle, but through the slow, burning grace of coming together again and again.
Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草 was selected as the curatorial resident for An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together. CAO Collective is co-directed by hú-tu (huiyin zhou & Laura 嘟嘟), an artist duo whose collaborative practice draws from social practice and anthropology. Their interdisciplinary practice interweaves collective poetry, performance, food art, clay, photography, sound, video, children's games, meditation, herbal medicine, and installation to explore systems of discipline, censorship, capitalist extraction, memory, ritual, intimacy, and queer/feminist kinship.
An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together is a multi-pronged project taking place this fall at Vox Populi that activates collective process as subject, form, and method. Spanning exhibitions, a curatorial residency, public programs, and a print publication, the project explores the politics of collectivity, inviting broad publics to reflect on their own experiences of collaboration. An Endless Meeting will be presented as part of Collective Futures, a citywide initiative bringing together artist-run and community-based organizations to examine collective cultural production. This project has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
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