Robb Hernandez facilitates this month’s Writing Club, which focuses on Latinx futurity through powerful artworks by Coco Fusco, Santiago Yahuarcani, and Guadalupe Maravilla in the exhibitions 500 Years and Clandestine Knowledge. Inspired by themes drawn from Hernandez’s current book project, Transplanetary: Speculative Arts of the Americas, we’ll explore how Latinx artists have employed speculative gestures in their work to forge new beginnings, alter endings, or radically redefine how we relate to each other, nature, and the cosmos. This session takes place online via Zoom.
This Writing Club is an opportunity to build community among people invested in cultures of Latinx art and artists, science, science fiction, and speculative art making. The same session will be offered twice, once in MoMA’s galleries and once online via Zoom.
Registration
Register for Writing Club at Home on Thursday, January 30, 2025.
Robb Hernández is a professor of English and director of fashion studies at Fordham University. He is a public advocate for queer and trans artists of color and serves these communities as a curator, oral historian, arts juror, lecturer, and scholarly advisor to the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino. His current book project, Transplanetary: Speculative Arts of the Americas, examines Latinx artists’ responses to the modern space program by fielding different historical epochs, celestial happenings, and cosmologies of the ancient Americas. He is the author of Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde (2019), which offers a queer-of-color retelling of the devastating effects of AIDS on Latinx artist communities in Southern California. His research has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
About Writing Club
Writing Club, an ongoing program at MoMA, is part of the Museum’s Artful Practices for Well-Being initiative, which offers ideas for connectedness and healing through art. At each Writing Club, a guest writer introduces different works of art and offers a series of creative prompts. The intention is to offer a calm, supportive, and welcoming environment for anyone interested in generating new writing in the company of visual art and a fellowship of writers.
Accessibility
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