Join us for a series of guided mindful conversations that invite participants to reflect on memory as a living landscape — something cultivated, tended, neglected, transformed, and shared.

The workshops begin with sharing memories as an act of role-modeling remembrance. By making ourselves vulnerable, we create a space of trust where personal reflection can unfold collectively. Moving at a gentle pace, the conversations explore memory not as a fixed archive but as an evolving garden. Participants consider what they cultivate, what they prune away, what remains dormant, and what continues to grow, using this metaphor to examine their relationship to the natural world and to the communities, places, and experiences that have shaped them.

Our aim is not consensus, but a shared wisdom rooted in listening, vulnerability, and mutual recognition. While the workshops cannot heal trauma, they can acknowledge its presence. At their core, they seek to nurture a growing consciousness of our connections to nature, to memory, and to one another.

These workshops are led by artist Ernesto Pujol, who is part of the on-view exhibition Until we get to the core/Hasta llegar al meollo. Learn more about the exhibition.

Registration is required.

About the Facilitator
Ernesto Pujol is a site-specific performance artist and social choreographer whose durational works are structured through walking, silence, and attentive presence. He founded The Listening School in 2015 and The Savage Gardener Project in 2020, and is the author of Sited Body, Public Visions and Walking Art Practice.

Curated by Michy Marxuach, Curatorial Exchange Initiative Fellow, MASS MoCA

Until we get to the core/Hasta llegar al meollo is part of MASS MoCA’s Curatorial Exchange Initiative (CEI) which is generously supported through leadership gifts from Sarah Arison and the Arison Arts Foundation, Michi Jigarjian, Denise Sobel, the Teiger Foundation, and Yukiko and Anders Schroeder. Additional support is provided by the Director’s Catalyst Fund, with generous contributions from Greg and Anne Avis, Kelly and Bill Kaiser, Steve and Lisa Jenks, Bob Gold, and an anonymous donor.

Until We Get to the Core is made possible by grants from the Teiger Foundation, the Endeavor Foundation, and the IFPDA Foundation.