In partnership with superkül, MOCA will be sharing proposals for the entry floor landscape of its future home on Sterling Road within a lounge in the SOLO Section of the fair. superkül's seating structure responds to the mushroom column heads found in the Auto Building, designed by architect J. W. Schreiber. Erected in 1919, the building […]
Basil AlZeri’s performance-lecture The Most Prized of All Closets explores the dual function of the pantry as a site of preservation and resistance. The pantry serves a basic function in a home as the place where fermented, pickled, preserved and dried foods are stored. With the advent of the global production and distribution of food, many people are […]
Kate Fowle: The Reflexive Museum The Museum Is Not What It Used To Be speaker series Wednesday, November 29, 6:30 - 8:30 pm Scrap Metal Gallery, 11 Dublin Street, Unit E Kate Fowle is Chief Curator for the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and Director-at-Large at Independent Curators International (ICI) in New […]
Amy Wong's performative artist talk, Angry Asian Feminist Loves Detox Soup, will be conceptualized around her mother Regina Wong’s recipe for Lok Dou Sa, a sweet mung bean detox soup.
Living Spirits explores the practice of Makgeolli, Korean fermented rice wine, which survived many decades of prohibition through Japanese Occupation and military dictatorship. In making Makgeolli, raw ingredients nearing their expiration transform into an entirely different being through the process of fermentation - suggesting alchemy, a sense of magic. Living Spirits expands on ideas around lineage, desire, longing, […]
Artist Richard Fung’s documentary Dal Puri Diaspora traces Caribbean roti’s passage across space and time. Fung will use this documentary as a starting point for tracing the vast web of connections that entangle flour, flatbread, and British colonialism. Richard Fung: The Wayward Roti The Art of Propagation performative speaker series Wednesday, February 14, 7 - 9 pm Henderson Brewery, […]
Stephen Wright: Getting Used to Usership The Museum Is Not What It Used To Be speaker series Thursday, February 22, 6:30 - 8:30 pm The Commons at 401 Richmond RSVP for free admission The program of talks, The Museum Is Not What It Used To Be, invites arts professionals to share their thoughts on how to […]
Artist Jo SiMalaya Alcampo will introduce us to the Singing Plants - keepers of indigenous knowledges, stories and memory. These banana plants respond to human touch with songs - the Hudhud chant of the Ifugao people - and sounds of bamboo instruments and gongs indigenous to the Philippines. This interactive installation explores our interconnectedness with the […]
Relationships that are constantly negotiated in the age of the Internet are explored in three dimensions by Andreas Angelidakis’s DEMOS - A Reconstruction.
The work consists of 74 foam modules that have been arranged for Nuit Blanche into a fixed structure designed by the artist. This amphitheatre-like space can be used as seating from which to watch three videos that trace the story of Angelidakis’s first Soft Ruin that was produced in 2007 to his current installation at MOCA.
Tour with curator, David Liss
Join us for a 20-minute introductory tour. Meet on Floor 1 under Kendell Geers' 'BE:LIE:VE' installation.
No registration needed.
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