symposium.wpadc.orgHow Can We Gather Now?

How Can We Gather Now ? About , Tickets , Schedule , Research 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. How can we gather now?” 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 Black Techno Matters Cynthia Connolly Ed Halter Emily Verla Bovino Farrah Skeiky Hope Ginsburg Jonathan Yu Leigh Ledare Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis Mēlani N. Douglass Mindy Seu Mojdeh Rezaeipour Naoko Wowsugi Philippe Parreno Prem Krishnamurthy Richard D. Bartlett & Natalia Lombardo Sarah Morris Stefanie Hessler Tiffany Sia Tony Cokes and more to be announced! Learn more about the participants here – 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 by Zoom and radio. – ABOUT THE VENUE Eaton DC is located at 1201 K St NW in downtown Washington, DC. Eaton offers a hotel, cinema, radio station, library, holistic wellness center, members workspace, music venue, rooftop bar, literary bar, exhibition space, a creator’s room, event spaces, restaurant, and coffee shop. – 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 programming—as an extension of their own intellectual research. Buy tickets March 31 3:00pm–10:00pm full schedule to be announced on March 1st April 1 9:00am–10:00pm meals included: Breakfast and Lunch full schedule to be released on March 1st 8:00pm–10:00pm Black Techno Matters April 2 10:00am–2:00pm meals included: Brunch full schedule to be announced on March 1st RESEARCH For the past year and a half, we’ve met remotely to discuss the possibilities of gathering now. This is our depository of quotes, diagrams, memes, and images related to this research. Community memory, Berkeley Laundromat Community memory terminal, Berkeley Laundromat, 1990 Umami Sketch, Naoko Wowsugi There is no way to hold memory singularly… and call that truth. … We have to do that in collaboration, we have to do it together. And that work is hard.” - Sue Mobley There is no way to hold memory singularly..., Sue Mobley nested scales of Microsolidarity, Richard Bartlett & Natalia Lombardo Reclamation Recipes Remedies Rituals, Melani Douglass Common Group Communications Platforms, as cited by Prem Krishnamurthy Pompeii Presentation, Prem Krishnamurthy The unity of the public [...] is [...] ideological. It depends on the stylization of the reading act as transparent and replicable; it depends on an arbitrary social closure (through language, i… Publics and Counterpublics, Michael Warner The effect of group size on relationships, Pearson Education microsolidarity: a fractal view of belonging, Richard Bartlett & Natalia Lombardo The first cultural device was probably a recipient.... Many theorizers feel that the earliest cultural inventions must have been a container to hol… Women’s Creation, Elizabeth Fisher More Join us SUPPORTERS DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Eaton DC, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Goethe Institute-Washington, Terra Foundation for American Art Washington Project for the Arts Instagram Facebook...