“To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients—care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.” —bell hooks
In conjunction with the exhibition Projects: Tadáskía, this collaborative, group-led workshop is intended to provide an opportunity to build community among people who are interested in drawing and writing about love, transformation, and freedom, themes that are explored in the work ave preta mística mystical black bird (2022). Participants will experiment with a series of drawing exercises, inspired by bell hooks’s “ingredients of love,” designed by the artist and facilitated by MoMA and Studio Museum in Harlem staff. Participants will be invited to have a freeform group discussion about these themes and their drawings, followed by a small reception.
This workshop will be geared toward adult audiences eager to be in community with others, to have conversations about love, freedom, and transformation, and to write and draw. No experience or expertise in drawing is required. All materials will be provided. This workshop takes place in person at MoMA.
Registration
Register for the Ingredients of Love Drawing and Writing Workshop at MoMA on Sunday, October 13.
The different offshoots of Tadáskía’s work share a through line in her affinity with drawing. Simultaneously markings and erasures, her traces in dry pastels, colored pencil, pen, or nail polish create graphic tangles that evoke fluttering beings without turning them recognizable. The torn edges of her paper lend a sense of continuity, like an unbound book with its pages extending into the surrounding space. Her wooden sculptures are akin to screens that, without separating spaces, are crossed through with poles that render them porous. This is a dance between revelation and concealment. The interaction between pictorial content and writing, common to so much of her work, produces resonance between the image and the written word while ushering in ambiguities that make fixed meaning impossible. In videos and photographs that Tadáskía calls “apparitions,” actions of disguising and transforming the depicted bodies place domestic and familiar environments in a restless state.
This workshop is a collaboration between the Studio Museum in Harlem and MoMA.
Accessibility
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and CART captioning are available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these accommodations.
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