Virtual event, March 21st, Streaming and available to all on MASS MoCA’s YouTube channel.

7:00-8:15pm EST. Accessibility: The event will have automated live captions.

To celebrate the launch of the CARE SYLLABUS module,“I Can’t: Feeling Through Burdens of Care,” this virtual event brings together the writer Maggie Nelson and the artist Marc Swanson for a night of conversation on the occasion of Nelson’s recently published book, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Graywolf Press, 2021) and Swanson’s new MASS MoCA exhibition, A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco.

With anecdotes from art and life, this conversation draws attention to the particularities of care as they arise in nuanced relation to the labors and limits of artistic creation and interpretation. When the rally cry of care sounds far and wide, where do we focus our energies? What role, if any, might art -- and artistic engagement -- play in navigating our capacities to give and receive care? In their discussion, Nelson and Swanson will touch on shared investments evident in their recent works, which explore connections between queer experience, alternative understandings of time, and climate crisis.

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