Join Project for Empty Space for a Spring brunch and artist talk on Sunday, May 18 at 11 AM at at Project for Empty Space’s Ironside Gallery, 110 Edison Place, Newark, NJ. Enjoy breakfast bubbles and a warm gathering featuring 2022 Artist In Residence Andrea Chung in conversation with award-winning writer, theorist, and interdisciplinary artist Tao Leigh Goffe.
Surrounded by Chung’s solo exhibition The Ocean Doesn’t Recognize Tears, the two will reflect on heritage, familial love, and parenting through a rich autobiographical lens.
About The Ocean Doesn’t Recognize Tears
Born in Newark, Andrea Chung’s exhibition explores questions of heritage, familial love, and parenting within a larger autobiographical context. Chung’s work is research-heavy, diving into patterns and themes that have shown up throughout history at this time; migration involving perishable and precious materials, post-colonial countries, and the human body. Learn more here.
About Guest Speaker
Tao Leigh Goffe is an award-winning writer, theorist, and interdisciplinary artist who grew up between the UK and New York City. For the past fifteen years, she has worked as an academic and has been invited to give keynote lectures in her specialities of colonial histories of race, geology, climate, and media technologies. Dr. Goffe lives and works in Manhattan, where she is an Associate Professor at Hunter College, CUNY. She teaches classes on literary theory and cultural history. Dr. Goffe’s book on how the climate crisis is a racial crisis is called DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday andHamish Hamilton (Penguin UK, 2025)). Learn more here.