āThere is no way to hold memory singularlyā¦ and call that truth. ā¦ We have to do that in collaboration, we have to do it together. And that wā¦
We invite you to join us for a symposium directed by Asad Raza and Prem Krishnamurthy, and presented by Washington Project for the Arts.
We are living through a moment marked by many forms of fragmentation, political division, and social isolation, exacerbated by the global pandemic. This symposium explores the question of gathering within this context.
āHow can we gather now?ā is also itself a gathering and will be a shared collective experience. It collects a rich variety of experiential modes, from conversations to cinema to shared food to a “drum circle” of synthetic techno rhythms. Raza and Krishnamurthy have offered this urgent question to artists, theorists, and organizers from all over the world, who in turn have used it as a prompt for artworks, conversations, performances, workshops, and gustatory experiences.
We welcome you to join in, break bread with us, and experience togetherness.
The symposium will take place at Eaton DC in downtown Washington, DC from Friday, March 31 through Sunday, April 2.
Participants
- adrienne maree brown
- Ambrose Nzams
- Asad Raza
- Ayana Zaire Cotton
- Black Techno Matters
- Centre for Land Affairs
- Cynthia Connolly
- Ed Halter
- Emily Verla Bovino
- Fabiola Ching
- Farrah Skeiky
- Hope Ginsburg
- Imka
- Jonathan Yu
- Leigh Ledare
- Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis
- Mayah Lovell
- MeĢlani N. Douglass
- Michael Carter
- Mindy Seu
- Mojdeh Rezaeipour
- Naoco Wowsugi
- Neta Bomani
- Nzinga Tull
- Philippe Parreno
- Prem Krishnamurthy
- RenƩe Green
- Richard D. Bartlett & Natalia Lombardo
- Rob Rubba
- Sarah Morris
- Shawna Murray-Browne
- Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab
- Smoke & Tea
- Stefanie Hessler
- Suzie Flores
- Tara Aura
- Tiffany Sia
- Tony Cokes
- Valerie Wiseman
- William Reid
- Yuma “Docta Yew” Bellomee
Learn more about the participants here
Learn more about the programs here
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COVID PROTOCOLS
We ask that all guests take an antigen test before attending the symposium and to please stay home if they are sick. Masks are welcome and will be available.
For those unable to attend in-person, there will be opportunities throughout the weekend to tune in and participate virtually.
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ABOUT THE VENUE
Eaton DC is located at 1201 K St NW in downtown Washington, DC.
Learn more about Eaton DC here
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ABOUT WASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS
Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) is a platform for collaborative and experimental artist-organized projects, dialogue, and advocacy. Artists curate and organize all of our programmingāas an extension of their own intellectual research.
March 31
Film Screenings
Welcome
Keynote: adrienne maree brown & Prem Krishnamurthy
“K is for Karaoke”
organized by Prem Krishnamurthy
April 1
Breakfast
Registration
Welcome
“Punk Solutions?”
with Cynthia Connolly, Ambrose Nzams, and Farrah Skeiky
“Conjuring for kitchens, dancefloors, and the cosmos”
organized by MÄlani N. Douglass
“Umami Taste Development Center in DC”
with Naoco Wowsugi, Rob Rubba, Suzie Flores, Yuma "Docta Yew" Bellomee, William Reid, and Tara Aura
“Apparitional Experiments ā Even the Demons are Censored with The Centre for Land Affairs”
organized by Tiffany Sia
Lunch
“Film Screenings”
Hope Ginsburg: Land Dive Team: Bay of Fundy
Leigh Ledare: The Task
Lenka Clayton + Phillip Andrew Lewis: Five Hundred Twenty-Four
Mojdeh Rezaeipour: Formations of a Diasporic Body
Phillipe Parreno: The Crowd
RenƩe Green: Wavelinks: Activism + Sound
Sarah Morris: Sakura
“Apparitional Experiments ā Mad Masters / Other Countdowns with Emily Verla Bovino”
organized by Tiffany Sia
“Memory Museum: A Tea Meditation”
organized by MÄlani N. Douglass
“Deep Listening: Horticultural Sound Bath by Very Sad Lab with Smoke & Tea + Imka”
organized by Naoco Wowsugi
Tony Cokes: Black Celebration
“Apparitional Experiments ā Banner-making Workshop with Jonathan Yu”
organized by Tiffany Sia
“Apparitional Experiments ā On Independent Spaces with Ed Halter”
organized by Tiffany Sia
Keynote: Stefanie Hessler
Tony Cokes: Black Celebration
“Future Drum Circle”
organized by Black Techno Matters
Film Screenings
“SEEDED, An affirmation practice”
organized by MÄlani N. Douglass
“To Document a Gathering”
organized by Mindy Seu
“Microsolidarity in Practice”
organized by Richard D. Barlett and Natalia Lombardo
April 2
Morning Gathering
“Slow Sip in the Salon”
organized by MÄlani N. Douglass
Lenka Clayton + Phillip Andrew Lewis: Five Hundred Twenty-Four
“The Making of Fertile Ground”
organized by MÄlani N. Douglass
“Microsolidarity in Practice”
organized by Richard D. Bartlett and Natalia Lombardo
Brunch
“To Document a Gathering Presentation”
organized by Mindy Seu
Closing
RESEARCH
For the past year and a half, weāve met remotely to discuss the possibilities of gathering now. This is our depository of quotes, diagrams, memes, and images related to this research.
