Saya Woolfalk. Digital mock-up of ChimaTEK: The Dinner Party Uploaded. © The Institute of Empathy
Performance: Saya Woolfalk’s ChimaTEK
Thursday, February 20, 2014
8–9 pm
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor
Saya Woolfalk presents her interactive performance ChimaTEK: The Dinner Party Uploaded, which includes the Empathics, hybrid human-plant creatures that demonstrate the workings of their synthesizing machine. Woolfalk draws on museological, ethnographic, and ritualistic vocabularies and blends high and low aesthetics, providing a light-hearted look at a possible future.
Part of our new series Off the Wall, this month exploring Afrofuturism.
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