For this Meet the Artist conversation, exhibiting artist Tao Leigh Goffe has invited author Maaza Mengiste and artist, writer and editor Kandis Williams to join her to discuss the ideas that have shaped her Sunroom Project Space exhibition Plot and Provision: Crate-Digging. Goffe’s site-specific project is a climate-art, multimedia installation that explores intergenerational healing through the sounds and the soil of the Bronx. Central to the exhibition is the act of digging; sifting through history, archives, soil, and the origins of hip hop music to highlight the social, economic, and political realities that permeate our contemporary moment. Goffe’s exhibition complements the penultimate chapter of her forthcoming book After Eden (Doubleday).
This program is co-sponsored by Dark Laboratory, a creative technology organization that researches climate and race through Black and Indigenous theory and action.
Meet the Artist is an ongoing series of conversations between exhibiting artists and the curatorial team, and sometimes invited guests, at Wave Hill. This program provides an opportunity for Wave Hill visitors, the artist’s community, and others to learn more about an artist’s creative process and the themes within their work.
Glyndor Gallery is wheelchair-accessible. There is an accessible, ground-level entrance at the front of the building with an elevator that provides access to the gallery level. The Sunroom Project Space can be accessed with an ADA-compliant ramp. The restroom on the gallery level is all-gender and ADA-compliant.
Admission free with registration. Email darklaboratory2020@gmail.com for code.