Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Saya Woolfalk
- Date: November 3, 2016
- Time: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
- Location: Maine College of Art, Osher Hall, Portland
Saya Woolfalk is a New York based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions. With the multi year projects No Place, The Empathics, and ChimaTEK, Woolfalk has created the world of the Empathics, a fictional race of women who are able to alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants. With each body of work, Woolfalk continues to build the narrative of these women's lives, and questions the utopian possibilities of cultural hybridity.
Her work considers the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and re-imagined through collaboration, imaginative play and masquerade. To effect this re-imagining objects, bodies, and landscapes are constructed to immerse us in the logic of another place. In many ways Wolfalk’s works become the repository of the dreams and ideas of the many people who participate in producing and imagining the contours of the works. In the tradition of the fable or folk story, Wolfalk maps the desires and ideas of people to create narratives that attempt to be relevant to a contemporary audience.
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Venue
Maine College of Art, Osher Hall
522 Congress St.Portland ME 04101
Organization
Maine College of Art
Nancy Walker207-775-3052
ude.acem@reklawn
www.meca.edu