No Place: A Ritual of the Empathic

Saya Woolfalk

• The Studio Museum
• 144 West 125th Street
• Saturday, November 14 - Saturday, November 14, 6:00pm

“No Place: A Ritual of the Empathics” is a continuation of artist Saya Woolfalk’s investigation into a fictional future called No Place. Last summer, Woolfalk introduced us to the part-plant, part human-people of No Place in a multimedia video installation developed as an Artist in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem. With “A Ritual of the Empathics,” Woolfalk expands the narrative of No Place to include a group of women called the Empathics, who believe No Place is a future worth inhabiting. Through a variety of collaborative processes, the Empathics create sets, workshops, and a performance to try and conjure the utopian No Place in the present day.

Born in 1979 in Gifu, Japan, Woolfalk lives and works in New York. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA from Brown University, and completed the Whitney ISP. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at PS1/MoMA; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and Momenta Art.

With support from Franklin Furnace, Harvestworks, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Puffin Foundation.

Performances at 4pm and 6pm

Tickets: $7 / $5 Students and Seniors, available at the door.