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Meet the Artist: Tao Leigh Goffe
For this Meet the Artist conversation, exhibiting artist Tao Leigh Goffe has invited author Maaza Mengiste and artist, writer and editor Kandis Williams to join her to discuss the ideas that have shaped her Sunroom Project Space exhibition Plot and Provision: Crate-Digging. Goffe’s site-specific project is a climate-art, multimedia installation that explores intergenerational healing through the sounds and the soil of the Bronx. Central to the exhibition is the act of digging; sifting through history, archives, soil, and the origins of hip hop music to highlight the social, economic, and political realities that permeate our contemporary moment. Goffe’s exhibition complements the penultimate chapter of her forthcoming book After Eden (Doubleday).
This program is co-sponsored by Dark Laboratory, a creative technology organization that researches climate and race through Black and Indigenous theory and action.
Meet the Artist is an ongoing series of conversations between exhibiting artists and the curatorial team, and sometimes invited guests, at Wave Hill. This program provides an opportunity for Wave Hill visitors, the artist’s community, and others to learn more about an artist’s creative process and the themes within their work.
Glyndor Gallery is wheelchair-accessible. There is an accessible, ground-level entrance at the front of the building with an elevator that provides access to the gallery level. The Sunroom Project Space can be accessed with an ADA-compliant ramp. The restroom on the gallery level is all-gender and ADA-compliant.
On Saturday, May 18, 12:00 - 2:30 PM, join artists Tao Leigh Goffe and Cecile Chong (2017 Wave Hill Winter Workspace) in collaboration with the Boys Club of New York for a community day poster-making workshop for teenagers combining eco-art collage and hip-hop graphic design. Read more here.
The workshop will take place at:
BCNY Gerry Clubhouse
321 E. 111th Street
New York, NY, 10029
Space is limited. Registration required and free. Lunch provided.
To sign up, please email: darklaboratory2020@gmail.com.
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Tao Leigh Goffe
Tao Leigh Goffe
Tao Leigh Goffe is a London-born, Black British award-winning writer, theorist and interdisciplinary artist who grew up between the UK and New York. Her artwork was exhibited in 2023 at the Institute of Jamaica in Kingston as part of a group show that re-imagines the botanical legacy of the warrior Queen Nanny of the Maroons. She produces videos, sound sculptures and installations that foreground digital tools as a way of critiquing the climate crisis and overlapping European colonialisms by creating sonic kinship. She is an Associate Professor at Hunter College, CUNY. At present Dr. Goffe is writing a book titled After Eden on how the climate crisis is a racial crisis [Doubleday and Hamish Hamilton (Penguin UK)].
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Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste is the author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and a recipient of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Award in Literature. The Shadow King was named a Best Book of 2019 by New York Times, NPR, Time Magazine, Elle, and other publications. Beneath the Lion's Gaze, her debut, was selected by The Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books. Maaza has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and the Fulbright Scholar Program. Learn more about the novelist at maazamengiste.com.
Photo: Nina Subin
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Kandis Williams
Kandis Williams
Kandis Williams is an artist, writer, editor and publisher stationed both in Berlin and New York. She has received critical acclaim for her collage art, performance art and publishing work as founder of CASSANDRA PRESS in 2016. Williams is best known for her art exploring racial issues, genocidal poetics, sexuality, the horror genre and many other categories
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