Climate of Longing: metaphors of connection in the regulators and drivers of the Earth
Climate of Longing: metaphors of connection in the regulators and drivers of the Earth
Conversation
In-Person
December 14th, 2024
4PM
Haley Darya Parsa + Christopher Willauer, in conversation with Kalaija Mallery
Climate of Longing: Metaphors of Connection in the Regulators and Drivers of the Earth, is a discussion led by curator Kalaija Mallery with artists Haley Darya Parsa (New York, NY), and Christopher Willauer (Dayton, OH). The talk will explore themes of longing, distance, and the metaphor of connection through Earth's climate forces such as oceans and suns. This conversation delves into how these natural elements serve as both regulators and symbols in shaping our understanding of connection and separation.
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Haley Darya Parsa received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin before moving to New York, NY where she lives and works. In 2023, a solo presentation of Parsa’s work, “Tracing a Border (Dissolved with the Sun)”, was on view at Stop-Gap Projects, Columbia, Missouri. In 2020, Parsa's work was the subject of two solo exhibitions at Third Room Project, “The sun leaves me to find you” in Portland, OR and “Sharing Suns” online. In 2019, a solo presentation of her work, “What is Lost in Distance and Separation”, was on view at Winterfeldtstr 56, Berlin, Germany. Parsa attended the New York Arts Practicum in 2017, is the 2016 recipient of the University of Texas System Regents' Outstanding Student Awards in Arts and Humanities, and is the 2016 recipient of the Marshall F. Wells Scholarship and Fellowship Endowment to attend the Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI.
Christopher Willauer is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Iowa. Willauer graduated with a BFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa and is currently pursuing a Masters of Landscape Architecture at The Ohio State University. He has presented work at The New Museum, New York, NY; Columbia College, Chicago, IL; OPED Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, New York Live Arts, New York, NY; Heima Artist Residency, Seydisfjordur, Iceland, Third Room, Portland, OR.
He works primarily through performance, sculpture, and video to conceptually engage with the body and nature in a reverent and ritualistic manner. Together, the body and nature function both formally and conceptually as an exploration of sorrows, pleasures, longings, and queerness. It is through the combination of his arts practice and landscape architecture education that he is exploring the dynamic and poetic connections that run through landscapes and ecosystems, bodies and time, space and longing.