FF – Distance Edition: Torkwase Dyson

In this video, artist Torkwase Dyson delves into the role of infrastructure and grounds in her work in a presentation of projects including:

• Studio South Zero, a mobile solar-powered art studio that Dyson drove across the country to explore sites impacted by climate change and environmental injustice
• Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Justice, an exhibition with an accompanying series of talks and workshops with architects, artists, environmentalists, poets, and scholars
• Liquid A Place, a collaborative performance and multimedia installation that served as a stage for artists to engage with issues of environmental racism, spatial liberation, and sensoria.

The presentation is followed by a conversation with Mario Gooden, director of Mario Gooden Studio: Architecture + Design and a professor of professional practice at Columbia GSAPP that touches on the role of language in Dyson’s artistic process, liquidity as a tool for Black liberation, and approaching workshops with the understanding that all the necessary information is already in the room.

The program was live streamed from A Liquid Belonging, Dyson’s site-specific show at Pace’s New York gallery.