Let Us Start With From Without

Please join the artist and writer Miljohn Ruperto and art historian and professor of rhetoric Winnie Wong in a wide ranging conversation about interverification, the limits of categories, and the fragile ethical universe of aesthetics. They will explore questions of synchronicity, excavation, and dreams of immortality in Ruperto's work and the work of other living artists, deepening our understanding of the way contemporary art unfolds within the manifold crises of our times. They will discuss the artists and works Ruperto engages with, the thinking they provoke, and how we experience art among all things in this world. Their conversation takes place on the occasion of exhibitions of Ruperto's works in the Bay Area at the Cantor Arts Center and the Minnesota Street Project Foundation.

Prepared in conjunction with the exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center, a limited number of copies of Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral: Works by Miljohn Ruperto are available for purchase in advance with your ticket. This publication provides expanded context for Ruperto's multimedia and collaborative art practice. The book presents several short essays by Ruperto inspired by the work of other artists and showcases how such creative and intellectual exchanges function as an integral part of his artistic practice, while elucidating the conceptual underpinnings of his art and tracing the enticingly tangled threads of time and space, subjectivity and relationality, history-making and future-building, that connect the artist’s wide-ranging visual output.

Miljohn Ruperto (b.1971 Manila, Philippines) lives and works in Los Angeles. A graduate of UC Berkeley's Art Practice and Yale University's School of Art, Miljohn Ruperto's work is known for its unusual multidisciplinary and collaborative range and for his ethereal approach to methods and ideas that relate science, religion, time, ecology, and aesthetics to one another. An active writer and one-time curator, Ruperto has recently written on the work of fellow artists Rosalind Nashashibi, Coleman Collins, Na Mira, Simon Leung, Patrick Flores, and Sohrab Mohebbi.

Winnie Wong is professor of Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade (2014) and The Many Names of Anonymity: Portraitists of the Canton Trade (2026). Her essays have appeared in Artforum and for exhibitions at the Museum für Modern Kunst Frankfurt, the Ontario Gallery of Art, the Yale Center for British Art, and Karma Books.

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