Tanika I. Williams, performance document from ROOTwork at EFA Project Space, 2021, photo by Duane X. Garay. Image courtesy the artist.
Time: Saturday, May 14, 2022, 1-2:30 PM
In Person at EFA Project Space (323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC 10018)
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What became of the White Seeds planted in Black Soil?
In “Atlantic Correspondence,” Tanika I. Williams reconstructs her genealogical journey from Ireland, to Jamaica, to New York from the 1800s to present day. The cartographic performance plots Williams' ancestry with soil, immigration documents and vital records, to visualize ancestry through plant migrations.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Curated by Dylan Gauthier, Radhika Subramaniam and Marina Zurkow, and featuring installations by Eating in Public/Gaye Chan + Nandita Sharma, Anna Rose Hopkins + Marina Zurkow, Del Hardin Hoyle, Sal Randolph with Anne Randolph, and collaborators, Sprout Hinge Nap Wobble is a group exhibition that invites the public to feel planetary relationalities at a time of planetary crisis. The vicious systems and wilful actions that are responsible for today’s planetary catastrophe have spawned an attendant industry of planning—preparedness, scenario planning, emergency management—that directs itself to the future, to anticipation, to fear, to escape. Through a series of arrangements and encounters, Sprout explores the material and metaphorical ways in which connections are possible in a climate of uncertainty—neither wholly optimistic nor utterly despairing, neither propelled by urgency nor foreclosed, but held within their vibrating tensions.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tanika I. Williams is a Brooklyn-based video and performance artist exploring mothering, ecology and spirituality. https://www.tanikawilliams.net/
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This is Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland and gathering place for many Indigenous nations and beings. When the unceded earth breathes again, there will be Indigenous lives here, as there are now and have always been. It will still be Lenapehoking. We learn from the bedrock and commit to uplifting, honoring, and listening to those who are seen and unseen, present and future.
ACCESS INFO
EFA Project Space is located on the second floor of 323 West 39th Street. It is accessible via an elevator (whose door width is 32” and car width is 65”) or two flights of stairs. At the building’s ground-level front desk, you will be asked to sign in with your name but not to provide ID.
The exhibition is free. Chairs with backs are available to guests upon request by speaking to a gallery attendant. There are two non-gender-segregated bathrooms on the building’s third floor, accessible via the elevators, outside the Project Space. The bathrooms are cleaned twice daily. One bathroom is wide and long enough to accommodate a wheelchair; the other cannot. Neither bathroom has grab bars. Though we cannot guarantee a scent-free space, we ask that all guests, who are able, to attend the exhibition fragrance-free, out of consideration for guests with chemical sensitivities. Fragrance-free soap is available in the restrooms on the third floor.