STUDIO SESSION (May) with Jasmine Baetz

[en]countering erasure

Clay flooded by water will dissolve, collapsing its form. This material dissolution perpetuates a cycle of reconstitution where endless new possibilities can be built. Erasure is the act of removing a presence, a mark, or an entity. Erasure is also itself a presence, a mark, an entity. Erasure can be a practice of harm (silencing, obfuscating, obliterating) and it can be a practice of creation (reconstructing, refiguring, and reinterpreting).

In this Studio Session, we will ask ourselves questions about our own relationships to erasure in our material practices, our geographic locations, our social positions, our cultural histories, and our daily lives. We will explore how the processes and materials of ceramics can help us name, interrogate, and counter harmful practices of erasure, and how they can help us explore, enact, and embody generative practices of erasure.

This session is scheduled for Saturdays May 4, 11, 18, 25 from 9-11am PST (that’s Los Angeles time).

Registration is $250 and includes all four sessions.

Participants gather via Zoom.

More details can be found here.