Mark Anthony Hernández Motaghy
Artist-in-Residence | Spring 2021
Youth Artist Project: “Care Matters: Media Tools for Urban Kinship”
Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy works between architecture, urbanism, art, and new media.
Mark is one-half of the spatial practice If So Then. They strategically "fake it" as a practice model, which has taken form through experiments in speculative urban interventions to fictional co-working organizations. They also co-launched the event Labor Party, exploring alternative models of spatial production focused on working and playing together, hoping to learn new ideas for collective authorship and forms of interrelated stewardship through this.
They are a research candidate at MIT School of Architecture and Planning, investigating kinship networks, informal economies, and the politics of care.
As an Artist in Residence at Urbano Project, Mark will work with Youth artists in “Care Matters: Media Tools for Urban Kinship” to build self/collective care through workshops and reading discussions focused on art and media. Students will create and publish posters and a collective zine incorporating drawing, typography, graphic design, mapping, and independent publishing practices.
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