Q-MoB Discount- Queer Curated Tour: Mass MoCA Argentine Rhapsody (N. Adams)

Anaïs Duplan is a trans poet, curator, essayist, and artist. His books examine Black embodiment and queer futures by reflecting on visual art, music, sound, movement, dance, and poetry. In exploring privilege and power in contemporary art and political discourse, he asks what constitutes liberation and where/when can it be located—be it in the body, the self, the work, or elsewhere. In this gallery visit, he discusses and reflects on the current Mass MoCA exhibit called Rhapsody by Argentinian artist Jimena Sarno.

Tickets $60 include museum entry, gallery admission, and two book titles.

LOW-INCOME TICKETS: Greatly discounted SNAP/Medicaid/Card to Culture Low-Income Tickets to see the exhibit are available if show your card at ticket office.

Sarno builds multimedia spatial installations that re-contextualize objects, architectural structures, sound, language, and moving image into constellations of new relationships.

For Rhapsody, Sarno collaborated with more than a dozen artists and makers, mostly from the Global South, combining filmmaking, sound, and sculpture with the contemporary and traditional craft practices of weaving, felting, woodworking, and pottery techniques, which rely on knowledge passed from maker to maker, to repair and create a hoped-for future. The exhibition title refers to multiple definitions of rhapsody, including musical improvisation, the epic poem, and the Greek root “rhapsode” that means one who stitches songs together.

Anaïs Duplan is a professor of postcolonial literature at Bennington College, and has taught poetry at The New School, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College. He founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for artists of color, in Iowa. Duplan is the recipient of a Whiting Award in Nonfiction and the QUEER|ART|PRIZE for Recent Work.

Jimena Sarno is an interdisciplinary artist and educator born in Buenos Aires and based in Los Angeles. She works across a range of media, with a focus on the sensorial and affective experiences shaped by political subjecthood. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at the California State University, Dominguez Hills, where she teaches sculpture, installation, sound, and moving image.

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