How to Build a Fire: Representation

October 25, 2019
8-10pm

In October, we will be telling stories and getting an advanced-opening view of Camillo Godoy’s installation: DEBTOR.

Through this exhibition, Godoy addresses the history and politics of debt and its effects on art production, human morality, and joy. Debtor brings together multiple audiences and participants through two public programs to interrogate the student debt crisis in the United States. Godoy was born in Bogotá, Colombia and is based in New York.

Inspired by Godoy’s work And the magic holidays October Brings, this month’s theme for How to Build a Fire is REPRESENTATION.

What is the power of how you represent your identity – your hair or clothes or attitude? What is the difference between “Columbus Day” and “Indigenous People’s Day”? How do you choose who or what or when to make a costume for Halloween? Who gets the scholarship and who gets the debt? And what does seeing your self – or not – do to you?

We are in fall — falling. Let’s sit together and listen, collect, reflect, consolidate, and nourish. Come in. We’re Open Source. Let’s build some fire.

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The How to Build a Fire storytelling series was created five years ago by poet Terence Degnan. Each month, a diverse group of individuals shares personal narratives centered around a theme. Their stories weave together an illustration of the human experience. This year’s hosts are Christina Marks and Stacie Evans.

How to Build a Fire takes place at Open Source Gallery — a welcoming, nurturing, intimate, safe environment, a participant-driven art initiative that provides space, community and conceptual context for creative play and critical commentary.