a desire to learn: performance in practice with Mobius Artists Group

Join Tufts University Art Galleries in partnership with Mobius Artists Group for a desire to learn: performance in practice, a workshop and program organized by Mobius member Jasper A. Sanchez. As Mobius founder and artist Marilyn Arsem approaches the nature of performance art as “not about entertainment, but about the desire to learn.” Led by present-day Mobius artist members Heather Kapplow, Jimena Bermejo & Serena Gabriels, and Joanna Tam & Kledia Spiro, this program of workshops is an invitation to anyone, regardless of performance art experience, who is interested in exploratory creative practices driven by a desire to learn. Workshops will encourage inquiry and discovery through movement, improvisation, and dialogue, ranging between people, across the senses, with objects, and through spaces. Participants may come away with expanded notions of contemporary art, collaborative practices, and what we can learn from doing and being in space with one another.

Schedule

12PM – 12:20PM

In-person Welcome & Curatorial Introduction

Jasper Sanchez, Mobius Artists Group curator

12:30 PM – 2PM

Workshop #1: Experiment #34

Heather Kapplow

2 PM – 3:30 PM

Workshop #2: Movement Improvisation & Collaboration

Jimena Bermejo & Serena Gabriels

3:30 PM – 5 PM

Workshop #3: Performing Lineage

Joanna Tam & Kledia Spiro

a desire to learn: performance in practice with Mobius Artists Group is a program accompanying the exhibition an archive and/or a repertoire, on view at TUAG/ Boston, 230 Fenway, through April 20, 2025.

Jasper A. Sanchez (he | they), a Venezuelan-Colombian raised in Miami, is a curator and cultural organizer based in Boston. Their contemporary curatorial practice melds queer diasporas and reimagines public space to achieve creative justice, uplifting artists and making their work accessible. Sanchez has curated exhibitions with the Boston LGBTQIA+ Artist Alliance, Boston Center for the Arts, and Tufts University Art Galleries. Their writing and programming appear in the Boston Art Review. He is part of the Mobius Artists Group and the inaugural Collective Futures Fund Advisory Council. They hold a BA in Art History & Critical Theory from Lesley University in Cambridge.

is a Boston-based artists’ collective committed to creating original, experimental work in all media. Mobius, Inc. is an artist-run non-profit, tax-exempt, 501©(3) organization that creates opportunities to generate, shape and test experimental art. Since 1975, Mobius has been a regional and transnational laboratory for supporting and building relationships among fellow artists. Mobius is recognized as one of the seminal alternative artist-run organizations in the U.S. and has presented work involving thousands of artists over the past 40 years. Works created by our members have been presented throughout North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Several notable exchanges with artists from Ireland and the U.K., Croatia, Macedonia (currently North Macedonia), Poland, and Taiwan have focused on public sites as incubators for discourse.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Anderson Auditorium, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, 230 Fenway, Boston, United States