Embodied Pushcart
Here & Now
Work from the MFAEDA Class of 2020
PowerPlant Gallery

Join us as we accompany PowerPlant Gallery Director and Zoom Kaboom guide Caitlin Kelly on a PushCart Zoom tour of the current exhibition. We will join an undergraduate class taught by Zaire McPhearson for this event. Please register and attend the Zoom Kaboom event at 5:00 where we will prepare and depart for the exhibition. Upon completion of the tour we will share remarks and discussion.

About the series:

Zoom KABOOM!

FHI Social Practice Lab

Mondays 5-6pm EST

Open to all, no need for any prior experience using any of our explored platforms

One time registration will provide access to any one session, or as many as you want using the same access information:

https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpcOioqzkjGtd_n9Kt5OhDDS7Qqy44W-NG

This new SPL series is based on the sharing and production of online experiences and meeting places. How can we safely fight against the alienation of this pandemic, as well as other past and future obstacles to social life, be it the distances between us, our implicit hierarchies, or even specific features of our bodies? What can more immersive modes of remote shared experience bring to our life, dialogues, interactions, politics, artworks and performances? How can we leave Zoom behind us and forge a journey into alternate domains?

Accompanied with simple instructions on how to join, every Zoom KABOOM session includes at least one guide who is familiar with that week’s alternative platform. What we do or discuss as we experiment with alternative platforms will be different each time and it may or may not be directly related to a given platform.

Each session has three parts, starting with us gathering at our regular Zoom (Kaboom) link for 15min, then exploring the alternative platform for 30min, and ending with 15min group commentary, reflection, or analysis at the regular zoom link. If a platform is conducive to conversation, we may stay there for the final part.