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Poetry Reading

Poetry &: We Can’t Sleep with Carmen Boullosa and Magali Lara

Saturday, December 2, 2023, 2 pm
Dia Chelsea

Event detailsSaturday, December 2, 20232 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. We Can’t Sleep is an opportunity to collectively reflect on ideas of home and homelands from a space of discomfort and awareness. Building off Carmen Boullosa’s poem “La patria insomne” (2011, translated as “Mamaland Can’t Sleep” by Katherine Hammond)—a multilayered, intimate reckoning with grief, memory, violence, and yearning—this immersive, bilingual English and Spanish event features a new animation by artist Magali Lara. Together Boullosa and Lara aim to invite and incite the audience to respond in their own languages, individually or communally, with materials to be provided for those who wish to express themselves visually. Carmen Boullosa is the author of a dozen volumes of poetry; 19 novels, including most recently The Book of Eve (2023); 4 essay collections; and 10 plays, 7 of which have been staged. A distinguished lecturer at Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York, she has received fellowships from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and has won numerous prizes including the Casa de América de Poesía Americana, Premio Excelencia en las Letras José Emilio Pacheco, and the Rosalía de Castro. Boullosa lives in Mexico City and Brooklyn. Magali Lara was born in Mexico City in 1956. A leading feminist visual artist, Lara is also an essayist who uses text and image, in her words, “as Siamese twins” that “have developed different personalities but that, in the end, share a vital nucleus.” Her visual art is in collections such as the Banco de México; Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico. Lara lives in Mexico City and Cuernavaca, Mexico.

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Public Tour of
Delcy Morelos: El abrazo

Saturday, December 2, 2023, 12:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

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Event detailsSaturday, December 2, 202312:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Reservations suggested but not required. Join a free, artist-led tour of Delcy Morelos’s exhibition—the artist’s first solo presentation in the United States. Tours are approximately 30 minutes long. Advance reservations are required for all adult and student groups visiting Dia Chelsea. For more information, please contact grouptours@diaart.org.

Learning Program

Amasar y endulzar la tierra:
A kneading-lecture with Juliana Steiner

Saturday, December 16, 2023, 1–2:30 pm or 3:30–5 pm
Dia Chelsea

Soil Sessions

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Event detailsSaturday, December 16, 20231–2:30 pm or 3:30–5 pm Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Spaces are limited; registration information to follow. In conjunction with Delcy Morelos: El abrazo, Dia presents Soil Sessions, an iterative series of interdisciplinary activations, poetic responses to, discursive reflections on, and embodied engagements with the earth as subject and material in Morelos’s work. These public programs, presented throughout the run of the exhibition, invite sustained engagement with the commission through a variety of lenses. During each session, curator and researcher Juliana Steiner will guide participants through the making of sweetened “soil cookies” as offerings of gratitude to the earth. Created in conversation with the artist, Steiner will discuss the recipe and the ingredients’ important properties, and how Morelos has integrated notions of offerings into current and past projects. Participants will be asked to use organic materials during the program. If you have questions or concerns about allergies, please contact info@diaart.org. Juliana Steiner is an independent curator and researcher from Bogotá, Colombia. She is interested in interdisciplinary practices in contemporary art that incorporate social sciences, pedagogy, architecture, and long-term projects with communities. Her research focuses on more-than-human species, environmental justice, and the transformations of landscapes. She curated Ecotone: Chagras, Payaos, Camellones in Colombia, one of the three international Network Projects included in Common Ground, the 2022–23 edition of the Fisher Center LAB Biennial at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson. As a member of entre—ríos, a “confluence of projects that explores continuities between bodies of water and human bodies,” Steiner has worked on the upper basin of the Bogotá River, rethinking this body of water as a subject that transforms landscapes and shapes memory. She is the co-founder and artistic director of La Reserva Guatoc, a multidisciplinary residency in Barichara, Colombia, that seeks to create critical thinking through experimental forms in a cross-territorial dialogue between Latin America and the Caribbean. She has also co-founded Espacio Odeón, a contemporary arts center housed in an abandoned landmark movie theater in Bogotá’s city center. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts and a BA in Business Management from Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, and an MA in Arts Administration from New York University. Steiner has taught as an adjunct professor at the Universidad de Los Andes School of Architecture and is currently a Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. To knead and to sweeten the earth / Amasar y endulzar la tierra The earth, mystery, womb, origin, life, and food.We receive without thanking, in oblivion and ignorance; we cut, destroy, damage mother matter.The invitation: To sow the intention of protecting earth and all its manifestations of life.The result: The harvest of this intention will be cookies of fertilized earth, carriers of seeds (life).The activity: Knead the earth and moisten it with water, caress it with your hands, soften it and sprinkle it with honey and with offering. Perfume it with gratitude and memory, also add cloves, cinnamon. Finally, the cookie will be fertilized with the seed of life (the secret touch).The earth heals and transforms the living in different ways: it will be a seed, it will be a plant, it will be a flower, it will be pollen, it will be food, it will be a memory, it will be the spoken word. We embody all these forms of life. La tierra, misterio, útero, origen, vida y alimento. Recibimos sin agradecer, en el olvido y la ignorancia; cortamos, destruimos, dañamos la madre materia. La invitación: Sembrar la intención de proteger la tierra y todas sus manifestaciones de vida.El resultado: La cosecha de esta intención será galletas de tierra fertilizada, portadoras de semillas (vida). Actividad: Amasar la tierra y humedecerla con agua, acariciarla con las manos, ablandarla y rociarla con miel y con ofrenda. Perfumarla con agradecimiento y memoria, también agregar clavos, canela. Por último, la galleta se fertilizará con la semilla de vida (el toque secreto). La tierra sana y transforma lo vivo de diferentes maneras: será semilla, será planta, será flor, será polen, será alimento, será recuerdo, será palabra. Encarnamos todas estas formas de vida. —Delcy Morelos and / y Juliana Steiner

Tour

Public Tour of
Delcy Morelos: El abrazo

Saturday, December 30, 2023, 12:30 pm
Dia Chelsea

Soil Sessions

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Event detailsSaturday, December 30, 202312:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Reservations suggested but not required. Join a free, artist-led tour of Delcy Morelos’s exhibition—the artist’s first solo presentation in the United States. Tours are approximately 30 minutes long. Advance reservations are required for all adult and student groups visiting Dia Chelsea. For more information, please contact grouptours@diaart.org.

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