MASS MoCA announces October and November programming featuring performances, artist talks, and two exhibitions—Ceramics in the Expanded Field and Yto Barrada: Ways to Baffle the Wind—on view beginning October 16 and November 20, respectively.
Artist talks and performances include a conversation with exhibiting artist Marcos Ramirez ERRE on transnationality and the rich culture of the USA-Mexico border region; composer and bassist Michael Olatuja’s Lagos Pepper Soup, an exuberant blend of African folk dance music and contemporary soul; avant-garde percussionist Eli Keszler; and Yuka Honda and Susie Ibarra’s Fragility Etudes, a series of musical compositions inspired by natural environment studies. Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding will be in residency working on Iphigenia, a modern operatic re-imagining of the ancient tale of a daughter sacrificed to the gods. The museum will host two preview performances before the production debuts as a traveling operatic performance later this year.