Holding Water: Workshop 2
Holding Water is a two-part workshop that honors the bodies of water with which we have relations or desire to cultivate deep relationships. Together, we will prepare for and perform rituals that involve ancestral connection or being called to interact with this vital element.
On Jan 11th we will map and channel the lakes, rivers, and ponds we communicate with. During this workshop, we will make small clay vessels/canteens to hold our liquid friends. These items will be left and fired with a clear glaze to make them water-sealed. Then, on Jan 27th we will celebrate in rituals of song and movements with the previously made water vessels. It’s preferred that one attends both workshops, as one is a preparation for a ceremony while the other is ceremonial, but no one will be turned away. More details to follow closer to the date.
This event is in conjunction with Marcela Torres and Assembly’s The Flow of mud/barro, part of Recess’s program, Session, which invites artists to use Recess’s public platform to combine productive studio space with dynamic exhibition opportunities. Sessions remain open to the public from the first day of the artist’s project through the last, encouraging sustained dialogue between artists and audiences. Due to the process-based nature of Sessions, projects undergo constant revision and the above proposal is subject to change.
Marcela Torres is an artist, organizer, and educator that uses strength-building exercises and community rituals, to propose forms of reparations. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and residing nomadically. Their physical research builds on methods of transcendental rituals, racial struggles within the United States, and the contemporary Latinx diaspora. Torres received a BA in Sculpture Intermedia and a BFA in Art History from the University of Utah, continuing their studies with an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute Chicago. Torres has performed at Performance Space New York, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, The Momentary, Fringe Festival, and Time Based Arts. Torres has exhibited work at Hyde Park Art Center, UW-Parkside University, and Petzel Gallery. Torres has been in residency at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Franconia Sculpture Park, Recess, Links Hall, and Creative Exchange PICA. They were a 2022 Chicago Dance Maker Forum Lab Artist and a 2023 IACA Artist Fellowship Awardee for New Forms.
Founded in 2016, Assembly offers system-impacted young people aged 18-26 an inroad to art and connections to working artists, while serving as an alternative to incarceration and its intersecting systems of oppression. The curriculum empowers young people to take charge of their own life stories and envision a future through art. The program diverts both misdemeanor and felony charges and in 2020 expanded to include a peer-to-peer referral model, allowing us to broaden our reach.
Time: 2:00-3:30 pm EST
Free!
