Embodied Making — Mary Y. Yang

Workshop design, researchEmbodied Making As Collective Publishing: The Body and Hanzi

Collaborator: Chen Luo (Body&Forma)

WorkshopsBoston Art Book Fair, School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, 2022–2024

Exhibition C-U-B-E Gallery
Curated by Moon Jang
Lamar Dodd School of Art
University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2024
ZineBoston Art Book Fair, School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, 2022–2024
In the permanent collection TL;DR Zine Archive (Aggie Toppins and Shreyas R. Krishnan), Washington University in St. Louis, Special Collections, St. Louis, MO

Exhibited at art book fairs including Tokyo Art Book Fair (Tokyo, Japan), UNBOUND RISD (Providence, RI), and Multiple Formats (Boston, MA)

How can embodied making create a space for collective exchange and expression? What does collective publishing look like through collaborative labor in a shared space and time? What are ways that we can examine the boundaries between bodies and print, typography, and space, and the individual to the collective?

Embodied Making As Collective Publishing explored how embodied making can inform collective publishing. Participants explored the relationship between the body and Hanzi through a series of hands-on exercises to create collaborative, wearable posters. As participants practiced writing Hanzi at a large scale, each stroke and mark-making on the human-proportioned poster built up into a diverse exchange of language and forms.

Read about the exhibition

✸ Published in Slanted Magazine #44—Type Fashion and PLATES #2: Body Issue (RELATED DEPARTMENT/Page Bureau by Scarlett Meng)
✸ Exhibited in PLATES: The Politics of Layout, Ulises Project Space
✸ Solo-exhibted at C-U-B-E Gallery, University of Georgia