What is a prompt? A prompt is an invitation to ease into entanglements, a generous permission to act, a container to explore a stretch in thought, a resurrected memory. A prompt is an instruction. A prompt as a transition, bringing us to another space, another other, another self. A prompt as a thought experiment, as […]
Fear Ecologies
A workshop created for Hekler Assembly, Infrastructures of Care series, 2021 With an invitation and made in collaboration with artist and neurologist Sonja Blum. The paradox of fear – it is something communities may want to eliminate but it may be an essential factor related to collectivity. In this workshop, we first consider fears we […]
Holo Crit
THE HOLOGRAM CRITIQUE METHOD A system for art interpretation and critique that combines listening to artwork with an anti-capitalist feminist ethos of distributed power. Created for Viral Ecologies | NO. 2 | March 2021 In cahoots with http://feministeconomicsdepartment.com/hologram/.
Coloring Room
An interactive exhibition and Museum Educator Graduate Scholars project at The Art Institute of Chicago. How can sensory focused experiences expand visitors’ sense of belonging and participation in an art institution? My objective was to build a methodology for creating interactive, unfacilitated, informal learning environments in the Art Institute of Chicago’s Interactive Gallery. “Coloring Room” […]
MAKING OUT
October 2017 SITE Sharp, 37 S Wabash, Chicago IL Press Release MAKING OUT turns the SITE gallery into a space of playful resistance. The work will center around a large installation of bleachers that suggest a high school football field — the kind of bleachers that provide a refuge for clandestine kissing. MAKING OUT […]
Work-in-progress
Maggie Wong makes art, writes about art, writes art, reads art, shares art, mentors artists, and is mentored by artists. She studies. Maggie Wong holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she now works as a lecturer. Additionally, she is the Associate Director of Iceberg Projects in Rogers […]