21: about yesterday, super grateful to everyone who attended my performance/workshop/talk at @lamagbarnsdall where I explained my process behind hopscotch and pickles and led people in a writing workshop to go through the same process I did to transpose immigrant stories onto the mechanics of hopscotch. This final performance I did on Sunday was part of the design of the installation focused on how to create multiple levels of participation to discuss how immigrants edit/remix and remove the painful, shameful, difficult, complicated parts of their arrivals to the US or other wisdom they impart or do not impart to their children. Questions that drove Th e project: how do we make viewers participants? Why should anybody care about participating in a space like a gallery, which as a system does not care for people to participate, just be passive viewers? How does a brown or black man not have to perform their own violence, exertion, labor for notoriety, fame, access to resources in the art world, And make the audience risk with them? For the possibility of joy/elation as much as the consequence of suffering? And what does someone, that does not speak English, do when they want to impart wisdom and there is no translation? This can be said for a recipe or any other wisdom they wish to impart. Even though there were all these ideas, this is a lot of fun and brought me a lot of joy. Thank you to @lamagbarnsdall and all their staff. Can't wait to do it again. And sad to see the show go. #40daysofself #artista #iranianguatemalansunite #nourishmentnotjustfood #travelcook #pickle #risk #gamedesign #hopscotch (at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3D5r3nAZhY/?igshid=1odjt8dpzfywf
