Workshop: Intergenerational Visual Storytelling
September 29 @ 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
| Free2:00pm // Performance of The Chinese Lady on the Hertz Stage
Join interdisciplinary artists and educators Gyun Hur and Irisdelia Garcia in a visual workshop on family history, intergenerational stories, and community connection. Participants are invited to bring their families to engage with personal family archives of photos and draw new memories in tandem, prompted by conversations around lineage and relationship. This workshop encourages children and their families to shape familial histories and care for the importance of memorials through an act of remembering and honoring.
RSVP and submit a family photo that honors your family history. For example, it can be a photo of your parents or grandparents when they were children. We will print out your submitted photos for the workshop. Crafting materials will be provided.
This workshop is open to and encouraged that all ages attend. RSVP required. Maximum attendance of 20.
Attendees, please arrive 10 minutes early to ensure a timely start for the workshop.
BIOS
Gyun Hur is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and an educator whose biographical context as a first-generation immigrant largely informs her creative practice and pedagogical approach. Born in South Korea, she moved to Atlanta, at the age of 13 and studied painting and sculpture at the University of Georgia and Savannah College of Art and Design.
In Hur’s practice, she is deeply engaged in generating poetics of beauty and grief in visual and emotional spaces she creates. Through iterations of installations, performances, drawings, and writings, Hur traverses between autobiographical abstraction and figurative storytelling, asking what holds us together; stories, yearnings, rituals and spirituality.
Irisdelia Garcia is an interdisciplinary Nuyorican artist and educator exploring the body as an archive, theater as ritual, and intergenerational storytelling. Her work explores hauntings, grief, and culturally specific modes of corporeal histories. Garcia has worked in residency with La Pocha Nostra, Ping Chong and Company, EMERGENYC, The Wax Factory, GALLIM, and the Maggee Allesee National Center for Choreography. Her work and collaborations have been shown at The New School, Amherst College, The BRIC, the wild project, HEREArts, EnGarde Arts, and The Tank. Garcia holds a BA in English (summa) from Amherst College with a Digital Humanities concentration and a Multicultural Theater Practice Certificate. She holds an MFA in Contemporary Theatre and Performance at The New School minoring in Creative Community Development.
Garcia’s teaching is core to her creative practice, currently teaching with Ping Chong and Company, Theater Development Fund, and Rybin Talent. She has taught previously with the Dia Art Foundation, OSSProject, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, and Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education.
ABOUT
This workshop is a part of Gyun Hur’s current project Our mothers, our water, our peace, commissioned by Flux Projects and partially funded by Perennial Properties and Parsons School of Design, The New School.
