Seda Nak discusses being a shop owner, a space maker, and the BIPOC experience.
About the speaker
Seda Nak is a co-curator for SAMASAMA, developing events, exhibitions, and workshops centering BIPOC narratives and heritage through art and community. She is the creator and owner of specialty retail and neighborhood-focused brick-and-mortars, Hometown and Shopkeepers. She is a believer of independent businesses organically leading conversations surrounding cultural diversity through conceptual spaces. Seda is also a co-creator of The Color Curtain Project, an artist book and culinary project influenced by Richard Wright’s The Color Curtain, A Report on the Bandung Conference, in 1955. The Color Curtain Project reflects on the meaning of Afro-Asian solidarity and community. Through food and company, Afro-Asian intersectionality is centered, a form of performance art within itself.
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