Recreational Meetings
Recreational Meeting: Language with Mayra A. Rodríguez-Castro
Friday, February 5, 2021, 3 pm, Dia Online
Event Details
Friday, February 5, 2021, 3–4:15 pm
Live on Zoom
Hosted live on Zoom, each session is free and open to the public. Space is limited, and reservations are required. Reservations are no longer available.
Session Description
Recreational Meeting: Language with Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro
Developed in collaboration with poet and translator Mayra A. Rodríguez-Castro, this audio-only session explores the poetics of description.
Program Description
Fridays, February 5–March 12, 2021, 3–4:15 pm
Facilitated by artist and educator Stephen Kwok in collaboration with a series of guest artists, these workshops invite participants to reimagine digital platforms and the social formats through experimental and experiential exercises. These sessions explore how distance may enable, rather than limit, engagement with our surroundings, ourselves, and each other.
Stephen Kwok makes experimental events that incorporate sculpture, live performance, digital media, and text. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in business administration from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was an artist-in-residence at Delfina Foundation’s Performance as Process program in London. Kwok has exhibited at Seoul Museum of Art; Surplus Space, Wuhan; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn; Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; and Lawndale Art Center, Houston.
Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro is a writer and translator. Rodríguez is the editor of Audre Lorde: Dream of Europe—Selected seminars and interviews: 1984–1992 (Kenning Editions, 2020), a selection of previously unpublished interviews and seminars led by Audre Lorde across western Europe and Germany. Her writing and contributions appear in the Poetry Project Newsletter, Social Text, and South as a State of Mind.