MFA Students in Governor's Island Show
A-Museum of Quickroots (Un-Museo de Raices Movedizas)
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| Un-Museo de Raices Movedizas: A-Museum of Quickroots, a project realized in collaboration by Myrna Lazcano, Mauricio Higuera (et al.), Pablo Mariano Diaz, Christian Hincapie, Clare Kambhu, Anderson Luna, Siara Mencia, Mandy Messina, Johnathan Payne and Maya Strauss (photo credit: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art). |
On View Through Saturday August 31, 2019.
A-Museum of Quickroots (“Raices Movedizas”) activates perceptions, stories, images, texts, and gatherings as iterations of a migrant museum. The project ignites places with the cultural and interpretive agency of an institution at the hands of collective effort. Against the backdrop of establishments that undocument migrant imaginations, Raices Movedizas is a witness. It documents these emergent imaginations through exhibitions, performances, and publications. This iteration of Raices Movedizas is realized in collaboration by Myrna Lazcano, Mauricio Higuera (et al.), Pablo Mariano Diaz, Rutgers MFA student, Christian Hincapie, Clare Kambhu, Anderson Luna, Siara Mencia, Mandy Messina, Johnathan Payne and Maya Strauss. A reception on August 24 will include an outdoor installation of A-Museum along with performances and the invitation to picnic in the park.
Mauricio Higuera is an artist and educator born in Medellin, Colombia in 1985. Now hyphenated-American and cognizant of the brutality of borders, he works through their vestiges to document the undocumented. His work is located at the threshold where the material and the immaterial coalesce. Mauricio holds a BFA in fine arts from The Cooper Union and a MFA in painting from Rutgers University. He has taught visual art at Rutgers University and The Cooper Union.
(Credit for the above summary: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art)
The opening picnic took place on Saturday, August 24 with performances (including some by Rutgers MFA student, Cesar Valdes) and community demonstrations on how to help the causes addressed in the exhibition.
imagination of space
Nolan Park House 6B
Governor’s Island