Doing Language : Word Work Launch II

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Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU

Join us as we premiere a new work by Riley Hooker for Doing Language : Word Work!

VCU Institute for Contemporary Art

Join us at the ICA Friday, May 6 to celebrate the launch of nonorien(table), a multimedia installation by artist <a href="https://www.instagram.com/designerhooker/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Riley Hooker</a> commissioned through the ICA's <a href="https://icavcu.org/exhibitions/doing-language-word-work" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Doing Language : Word Work</a> project. Doors open at 5 PM, and we'll begin promptly at 5:30 PM in the auditorium with a conversation between Riley and fellow DL : WW artist <a href="https://agustinezegers.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">agustine zegers</a> about our relationships to institutional spaces, considering the body as a mechanism to encounter, read, and metabolize information. Following the discussion, guests are invited to the forum for a reception and viewing of nonorien(table) on the basement level of the ICA.Doing Language : Word Work is a multi-part curatorial project that commissioned five artists—Bryan Castro, Riley Hooker, Joselia Rebekah Hughes, Malcolm Peacock, and agustine zegers—to generate new work in the form of editions and new media. Inspired by Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Lecture, DL : WW frames language as a tool to help give shape and weight to the gestural, imperceivable, and fleeting experiences of our lives.Thanks to Nina Carreli on special effects makeup, Steven Harwick on blue screen videography, and Ziúr on sound design for nonorien(table).

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