Please note, there has been a last-minute change to this program. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Ekua Holmes is unable to participate in this lecture. 

Join To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood featured artist Sharon Hayes for an intimate evening discussion of her practice as a video, performance, and sound artist. Hayes’s featured work, Ricerche: one, was filmed in Provincetown, Massachusetts, when Hayes attended an annual gathering for LGBTQ+ families. The work explores expansive ideas about nonnormative family structures and the particular challenges faced by children in queer family formations. Hayes, in conversation with Ruth Erickson, Mannion Family Senior Curator and To Begin Again organizer, will share about the ways she finds inspiration from her past and present roles as a caregiver. Being a caregiver has often been pitted against creative pursuits due to the practicalities of time, the needs of caretaking, economic realities, and more. Hayes—and Erickson—have forged new paths and new relations between professional and personal lives, however, as seen in their work at the ICA. 

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