Join us virtually at JMM as we officially open our latest project, in the absence of a proper mourning. This installation asks us to confront numerous difficult questions related to our connections to one another and transforms the Jewish Museum of Maryland’s public-facing facade into a site for collective mourning and communal care.

This lecture considers how art schools might adjust to accommodate those artists undertaking new instituent practices. It distills principles for the slow multidisciplinary pedagogy required for these practices to thrive in the academy by drawing on frameworks developed by Nomad9 MFA, Beespace, and School of Apocalypse.

Occupying the Museum begins with a 45 minute lecture to define and illustrate each of these tactics through the work of the Illuminator, Natural History Museum, Fossil Free Culture NL, Gulf Labor, Liberate Tate, MTL+, and Occupy Museums. We then divide into smaller groups to develop actions aimed at addressing a particular target, namely, the Van Gogh Museum.

A lecutre on two artist-run institutions he has co-founded to help address what we have become.

A discussion on the role of the arts and arts institutions in facing social and ecological challenges.