Past Event
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About This Event
This event takes place in the Clore Creative Studio at Whitechapel Gallery, located on the 3rd floor and is accessible via stairs and lift.
This workshop lasts approximately 2 hours. Attendees are encouraged to take as many breaks as they need during the event.
You must book a ticket to attend the event.
If the ticket price affects your attendance, please email tickets@whitechapelgallery.org to be added to the guest list (no questions asked, but dependent on availability).
This event is suitable for those over the age of 16
We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
Transport
To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Join artist Candice Lin for an embodied writing and visioning workshop, blending together visualisation exercises, bodily experiences, and prompts relating to the themes that inform her exhibition, g/hosti (ideas of belonging, self, hospitality, exile, parasites, other species).
Following grounding rituals and guided meditations to set the tone of the session and germinate the writing, participants will co-create a speculative story, weaving together layered responses to a range of experiences, materials, and imagery.
Participants will draw connections and pathways between recurring images, symbols and shared characters, building them into a collective story.
All levels of experience are welcome – no prior experience of writing is required, but an openness to experimentation, trust and collaboration is needed.
This event accompanies our exhibition Candice Lin: g/hosti.
Candice Lin was born in 1979 in Concord, Massachusetts and now lives and works in Altadena, California. Her multi-disciplinary artwork often engages with marginalised histories, legacies of colonialism and issues of race, gender and sexuality.
Through a research-based practice, she investigates the materials and processes that connect contemporary concerns with deeper histories. Her layered installations bring these histories to life with eclectic materials – such as tobacco, lard, opium poppies or cochineal bugs – and with room-sized interventions that choreograph the movements of audiences within her work.
Lin received her BA in Visual Arts and Art Semiotics from Brown University in 2001, and an MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. She has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at venues including Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2024); Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE (2024); MUMA, Melbourne, Australia (2024); Canal Projects, New York, USA (2023), Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom (2022); and the Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (2021). Lin has also participated in group exhibitions including the 24th Biennale of Sydney (2024), the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), the 13th and 14th Gwangju Biennial (2021 and 2023). She is the recipient of several residencies, grants and fellowships including the inaugural Ruth Award (2024); the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2023); Gold Art Prize (2021); the 6th Arnaldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize (2021); and the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2019). She is Associate Professor of Art at UCLA in Los Angeles.
