Join us this Wednesday, April 16 at TUAG / Boston (SMFA at Tufts) for our final event of the season—a panel co-presented with Artadia, featuring Luis Arnías, 2023 Wagner Foundation Boston Artadia Awardee, Artist, and Filmmaker; Lucy Cotter, Artist, Curator, and Writer; and Lucy Kim, 2014 Boston Artadia Awardee, Artist, and Educator.

Artists have long demonstrated that research is often central to the act of art-making and that art is a means of knowledge-production. For artists affiliated with academia, research is not only a foundational element but an occupational requisite. Drawing from their experiences working with and within academia , our panelists will share their diverse approaches to pushing the boundaries of what it means to engage in artistic research.

Learn more and register for the event here.

Generous support for this program has been provided by the Wagner Foundation.

A survey of the sonic vanguard, Impossible Music brings together sculptures, sounds, scores, video, and live performances to explore the radical, interdisciplinary potential of conceptual and experimental music. The group exhibition features work across mediums by boundary-defying composers, artists, and collectives including Terry Adkins, Black Quantum Futurism, Nikita Gale, Sarah Hennies, Tom Johnson, Christine Sun Kim, Conlon Nancarrow, Aki Onda, and C. Spencer Yeh.

Impossible Music is curated by Candice Hopkins and Raven Chacon and organized by the ICA Pittsburgh (formerly Miller ICA), Pittsburgh. Organized at TUAG by Dina Deitsch.

 an archive and/or a repertoire explores the liminal spaces that emerge between archives and ephemeral new media. Featuring the Mobius, Inc. Records —the administrative archive of the Boston-based Mobius Artists Group—this exhibition serves as a local laboratory, delving into materials from Mobius’ experimental performances, new media projects, sound works, dances, and installations. Presented alongside are embodied contributions from Mobius Artists Group members, new commissions and works by group artists Lani Asunción and Forbes Graham, as well as work by artists Aki Sasamoto and Takahiro Yamamoto. 

an archive and/or a repertoire  is organized by Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) Curator Laurel V. McLaughlin, PhD, with assistance from TUAG Graduate Research Fellow Wenxuan Xue (Tufts University PhD Candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies), in dialogue with artist and Mobius founder Marilyn Arsem and participating artists.