Wave Hill: Sunroom Space - Plot and Provision: Crate-Digging an Installation by Tao Leigh Goffe

4900 Independence Ave, Bronx, NY 10471

Plot and Provision: Crate-Digging is a solo show by Tao Leigh Goffe slated for April 20, 2024-June 9, 2024 in New York City at Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center, Glyndor Gallery. The site-responsive installation explores intergenerational healing through sound and dirt. Plot and Provision is a bunker at the edge of the world that will draw on the Black and Indigenous vibrations and music cultures of the Bronx and Riverdale across deep time and into the far future. A critique of the violence of monocrop agriculture, it centers soil exhaustion and regeneration. Through the notion of the plot, land becomes segmented and parceled. But land has also become transformed historically by a type of plot, the gardens cultivated by enslaved Africans at the periphery of the plantation called provision grounds. How can provision grounds be a futurist space of regenerative agriculture? How is provisioning a radical and deeply archival act of preservation? Cultivating, canning, and fermenting are methods of plotting and seeding the future. 

Curator: Rachel Gugelberger

Keywords: Sound Systems, Soundtracks, Archival Research, Black Feminist Archives, Memory, Trauma, Healing, Lenapehoking, Global Histories of NYC, Dutch New York, Echoes, Gender & Sexuality, Colonial Violence, Sculpture.

Duration: April 20, 2024-June 19, 2024

Admission: Complimentary with admission to garden grounds ($5)

Special Events: May 11 - Meet the Artist , May 18 - Community Art Workshop with Boys Club of New York