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April 2–May 6, 2022
The Motion Picture Association for Maintaining Personal Ambivalence
Rashayla Marie Brown and Jamila Raegan
RMB will fashion the Session into an independent filmmaking space where audiences can alter the traumatic endings of movies they want to love.
May - June 2022
For Freedoms: Another Justice By Any Medium Necessary
Assembly
This For Freedoms billboard campaign will culminate their series of creative programming exploring dimensions of carceral justice.
May 20–June 25, 2022
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones
Francheska Alcántara
This session is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap.
May 20–June 25, 2022
Caroline Garcia
I Woke Up and Chose Violence is a response to the murders and deaths of BIPOC people inflicted by the hegemonic systems.
September 15–October 29, 2022
LaJuné McMillian and Yvonne Mpwo
September 22, 2022, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Opening Reception: LaJuné McMillian's Black Movement Pop Up Library
Artist LaJuné McMIllian and curator Yvonne Mpwo invite you to the first look at LaJué's Session space.
October 22, 2022, 2:00 – 6:00pm
Black Movement in Digital Spaces: Part 1
Day 1 of 2—incorporating a mediation workshop, a motion capture workshop, followed by a panel discussion.
October 29, 2022, 2:00 – 7:00pm
Black Movement in Digital Spaces: Part 2
Day 2 of 2—incorporating a mediation workshop, a motion capture workshop, followed by a panel discussion.
November 17, 2022–January 14, 2023
Can a Sculpture feel Pain?/ Columbus Confessionals
Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
December 10, 2022 at 3:00am
Dr. Katherine Hite, professor of Political Science at Vassar College will discuss her work with the Politics and the Art of Commemoration in Latin Ame
December 17, 2022 at 1:00pm
In this hands-on workshop, attendees will learn the basics of plaster and silicone mold-making.
January 2023
A Subtle Shift: Suggestions on Liberated Practice in LaJuné McMillan's Black Movement Library
Imani Ford
January 14, 2023 at 3:00pm
Columbus Confessionals: Closing Reception & Performance
A participatory performance that will include a guided meditation and vocalization and musical accompaniment of the collective liturgy to be offered.
January 26 – March 4, 2023
Suhyun Choi
The public is invited to donate their broken personal devices and write loving farewell letters to acknowledge their relationships
January 26–February 26, 2023
Opening Memorial for Artist’s Laptop
Join us for a ritual marking the passing of artist Suhyun Choi’s laptop.
February 11, 2023, 1:00 – 6:00pm
Day-long Convening: Re-Configuring Our Relationships with Our Tech and Ourselves
Suhyun Choi
This day-long convening will delve into the ways in which relationship building – with ourselves, our communities, & our tech objects.
February 18, 2023, 2:00 – 4:15pm
TFW You’re Techno and Oriental
Through an illustrated lecture artist Suhyun Choi will demonstrate how movies can promote or challenge techno-orientalism.
March 2023
Lisa Hsiao Chen
written in conjunction with artist Jean-Marc Superville Sovak's Session project, Can a Sculpture feel Pain?/ Columbus Confessionals.
March 1, 2023 at 6:00pm
Community Conversation: Techno-Orientalism and Strategies against Violence
March 4, 2023, 2:00 – 5:00pm
Closing Reception for Suhyun Choi: Memorial for Laptop
A ritual co-curated using AI-generated prayers and ceremonies, to soothe the souls of the dead.
March 23–April 29, 2023
AYDO
Several total transformations, as each selection of dreams adapted into performance-based videos are situated in different imagined worlds.
April 1, 2023 at 6:00pm
AYDO
An intimate performance centered on reimagined adaptations of Ayoung and Nicholas’ dreams.
April 7, 2023 at 6:00pm
AYDO
This performance will reimagine and interpret the dreams of three generations of women: Ayoung, Ayoung’s mother, and Ayoung’s grandmother.