Marooning Bodies Closing Event

Saturday, April 18, 6–8PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA, CA 90065
Info on our space here
Max participants: 60
Free

For the closing of Marooning Bodies: Prototype As Prophecy, we invite you to come one last time to view and learn about the work of Marooning Bodies. In collaboration with Hazards Kitchen, Marooning Bodies will serve Edible Relics  — snacks from future histories inspired by future histories created through game play, African diasporic food pathways, and gas station snacks. Marooning Bodies: Edible Relics honors histories of migration, survival, and cultural exchange carried through food and the ingenuity born from limitation, drawing on the improvisational food cultures of the U.S. South, where gas station snacks became part of everyday ritual, resourcefulness, and invention.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Mims is the founder of Marooning Bodies, and is behind the curation and creative direction of the project’s many expansions. She is an artist, abolitionist, and facilitator based in Los Angeles. Her work moves across performance art, advocacy, public art, social practice, and fine art objects. She experiences the body as a site of liberation and approaches it as her first place of inquiry. Through an ongoing exploration of relationship between self, others, land, and more than human life, Mims grounds her practice in embodied knowing. She is deeply interested in questioning as a tool for collective understanding, the role of interpersonal relationships in building healthy communities, and the sacred wisdom held in cultures and ecosystems around the world.

Muoi is behind the creative direction, research, and design for Marooning Bodies. They begin with the practice of research as a declaration of love. Their body of work is born from this process. Each project comes as a search for new ways to hold community; in search of new ways to write love letters. They create from a framework that holds imagining and remembering as two sides of the same coin. By their hands— research not only provides a home for historic context, but generates new paths towards wonder, and imbues projects with meaningful action on the issues of our present. From film, to the written word, to painting, to spatial and graphic design, their interdisciplinary practice is sharpened by the call to bring collective dreams into our waking lives. With a background in architecture, law, and public policy, they navigate multiple mediums to manifest budding ideas into living, breathing projects.