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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

I Woke Up and Chose Violence

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

Black Movement Pop Up Library

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

Online Presentation & Discussion with Dr. Katherine Hite Art⇔ Empathy ⇔ Justice: Toward Reparative Forms of Justice in Memorial Art

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

Columbus Mold-Making Workshop

In this hands-on workshop, attendees will learn the basics of plaster and silicone mold-making.

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

Memorial for Laptop

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

Rehearsing Repair

Lisa Hsiao Chen

written in conjunction with artist Jean-Marc Superville Sovak's Session project, Can a Sculpture feel Pain?/ Columbus Confessionals.

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

Offering of Dreams

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

Colliding Dreams

AYDO

An intimate performance centered on reimagined adaptations of Ayoung and Nicholas’ dreams.

April 7, 2023 at 6:00pm

Fermented Dreams

AYDO

This performance will reimagine and interpret the dreams of three generations of women: Ayoung, Ayoung’s mother, and Ayoung’s grandmother.

April 8, 2023 at 1:00pm

Kimchi Making Workshop

AYDO

A conversation on the cultural, economic, and sociopolitical history of kimchi.