Meech Boakye: watering
Sunday, October 13
4pm - 6:30pm
The Brick (518 N. Western Ave. Los Angeles CA)
Free, RSVP required
Event Description
Watering is a communal hydration ritual, a gathering facilitated by artist Meech Boakye that considers hydration as a medium for collective healing. The gathering centers on a screening of Jumana Manna’s Foragers, a film that explores the restricted practices of foraging wild edible plants in Palestine under Israeli law. To introduce the film, Boakye will draw parallels to American postbellum property laws, discussing how access to wild land was systematically restricted to limit autonomy and erase Indigenous traditions. This program invites participants to question how ecological conservation can be weaponized as a political tool for displacement.
Before the screening, audience members will be invited to engage in a collective libation. Food will be served throughout the event, sourced by wild foraging in Los Angeles and from local Southern California farms. Guests will leave with a small gift grown and foraged in Boakye’s home in Portland.
The event will start at 4:30 pm, doors at 4:00 pm.
About the Artist
Meech Boakye is an artist and writer currently based in Portland, Oregon. Their practice is rooted in relationships with floral, fungal, and microbial kin as armatures for learning how to be in community. Material research functions as a formal conduit for remediation from extractive landscapes while relational works attempt to imagine speculative futures embedded in care. Works are suspended in gelatin biopolymers; fed, aged, shared; digested in stomachs or piles of hot compost; coded, or are collaboratively written with friends and neural-network AI.
This event is part of ECOTONES, a collaborative programming series presented on the occasion of the exhibition Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism at The Brick. Four public programs will be led by an artist or artist-collective to explore local agriculture, foraging, food and herbalism as ritual, and biodiversity.
Through this collaboration, these two L.A.-based art organizations are modeling an ecofeminist ethos by sharing authorship, and collectively generating materials and resources. Taking place in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s ambitious initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide, ECOTONES will be part of a region-spanning cultural moment, reaching vast audiences interested in the intersection of art, food, feminism, and sustainability.
Support for this program series is provided by Kim and Keith Allen-Niesen, The Marciano Art Foundation, and Olivia Marciano.
Lead support for Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism is provided by Getty and PST Art: Art & Science Collide, with additional generous support by The Margaret Morgan and Wesley Phoa Fund, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Knox Foundation, Teiger Foundation, and the Wilhelm Family Foundation.
