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“Notice how he didn’t correct himself about the fucking part. These are two things that I addressed with my therapist today an hour ago on our Zoom chat during this pandy. So speaking gook to gook, I know you’re good at math, try to add this up for me. I realize there’s probably also non-Asians also listening to this, but I’m guessing it’s mostly Asians, so non-Asians let me address my gook brethren first, and then you guys can play along. The transcript that follows has been edited to reflect the source material as closely as possible but may contain errors. He spoke on the theme of the event, “It All Adds Up”, in a way that will seem meandering and at times shocking, but reaches, in the end, a deep personal reckoning and a call for you to do the same.

In the middle of the all-day live programming was a one hour pre-recorded segment supplied by the artist. On his own, artist David Choe demonstrated having total trust in strangers: the unseen viewers. The nature of these conversations is unscripted and depends on two people’s willingness to be vulnerable with a virtual stranger and in good faith-a bit like improv-find how their individual perspectives add to what is being shared. In organizing Unexpected Connections, we asked participating speakers to be willing to share their spotlights and to give up control. None of the individuals in these pairs had met, and in some cases were not familiar with the other person’s work, prior to speaking live together. Three serendipitous conversations that took place that day which represent this format working beautifully are Kristen Kish and James Whitner speaking about small businesses, Evan Kleiman and Craig Mod on the subjects of walking and cooking, and Trevor Moawad and Jason Mayden talking about resilience. Talks, for the most part, were formatted in this way: two people from different backgrounds come together in conversation, finding through discussion the ways in which their worlds overlap and relate to one another.

In June 2020, MAEKAN and Intertrend, a multicultural agency based on Long Beach, co-presented a virtual iteration of our speaker series Unexpected Connections.