A Promise to Meet Again is an afternoon of activities to celebrate the conclusion of Alison Kuo's solo exhibition in the Think!Chinatown gallery. The program will start with remarks from the show's curator Sophia Ma, who will speak about the concepts represented in the work and the context for understanding it. Next, James Yeh will give a reading of a short story about the heartache and humor inherent in Asian American familial relationships. Kuo will then lead the audience through an interactive performance with spoken words by Ava Chin and ambient sound by Williamson Brasfield, followed by a conversation about current events that have affected Asian American lives. To cap it all off, we'll take turns on the KTV mic and toast to our many future meetings! No RSVPs required.

Alison Kuo is a second generation immigrant who pursues intersectional relationships across communities through artistic engagement. She is the co-founder of the group Sisters in Self-Defense based in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Kuo has shown her work at the Hessel Museum of Art, Cuchifritos, the Abrons Art Center, Beverly’s, CANADA, Happy Family Night Market, Grace Exhibition Space, Marvin Gardens, the Yeh Art Gallery, and the New York Art Book Fair in New York, and at the UNTITLED Art Fair, and the Young at Art Museum in Miami. Internationally, her work has been shown in the 4th Overseas Chinese Artists Invitational Exhibition at the He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen, Singapore Arts Week 2022, the 2016 Nanjing International Art Festival, and the MATERIAL art fair in Mexico City. She made site specific performance works for Paraiso Bajo in Bogotá, and Malagana Macula in Managua. She is a recipient of a Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2020 Artist Community Engagement Grant.