Ground Floor: A Living Project will explore artists who explore selfhood, identity, and performance through world building, spatiality, and objecthood. Through a multi-layered approach to understanding oneself, one’s surroundings, and the world at large, these artists utilize themselves, their interiors, and the imagined spaces in between to look inward and outward at how our interactions with self, others, found objects, and the abstraction of identity offer insight into living space.

Through a series of workshops, performances and talks, we will present a panel discussion, A Perception of Selfhood to explore how the practice of identity manifests in the larger context of society and others, a series of workshops that will explore the objects and words that ground us and how interiority contributes to world building and space, and the body in practice through performance and persona.

Join Regarding the Missing Objects exhibition artists Elana Adler, Tirtza Even, Ben Segal, and Maggie Taft, as they discuss what it’s like to be an artist making work within a complex political climate which often silences discourse in relation to Palenstine and Israel. The artists will explore the role that censorship plays not only institutionally but through self-censorship and omission. How does the act of resisting silencing impact the creative freedom of expression? The artists will discuss the mental and emotional labor that infuses politically-oriented art and practice.