Around the Community | Everything is Manipulation
San Francisco Arts Commission presents Everything is Manipulation
An Interdisciplinary Writing & Art Making Workshop with Sun Park and London Pinkney
Saturday, January 28, 2023 (11am-4pm with lunch break)
Join interdisciplinary artist Sun Park and writer London Pinkney for an all-day writing and art-making workshop. Workshop participants will be guided through a series of prompts to generate ideas in an interdisciplinary context. Starting with objects brought in from their personal lives, participants will consider the sacredness/holiness of their object and explore how to manipulate it. Through physical manipulation, participants investigate the object’s material possibilities and limits and are asked to also consider the relationship they have to their own bodies, to shared and personal environments, and to the sacred/holy. Participants will then write an ekphrastic (literary description of art) autobiography about their object as a way to literally redefine it and to redefine its relationship to our lives.
People of color and queer people are encouraged to participate.
Space is limited.
We ask that attendees stay for the full duration of the workshop. Lunch will be provided.
This workshop series is presented in partnership with Kearny Street Workshop | @kearnystreetworkshop, and organized in conjunction with the Sowing Worlds exhibition on view at the San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery through February 11, 2023. Sowing Worlds brings together five artists based in the Bay Area alongside five artists based in South Korea who are thinking expansively and critically about living with climate change.
Workshop Registration Eventbrite
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About the Sowing Worlds Exhibition
The Sowing Worlds exhibition is on view until February 11, 2023. SFAC Main Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday (12-5pm)
Sowing Worlds brings together five artists based in the Bay Area alongside five artists based in South Korea who are thinking expansively and critically about living with climate change. The title comes from a chapter in theorist Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene draws from the work of authors Octavia Butler and Ursula LeGuin to think about becoming kin with other species in order to expand our ways of thinking in addressing climate change.