Meghan Elizabeth Trainor in conversation with CoCA Curator Negarra A. Kudumu

On August 19th CoCA hosted a conversation with Seattle-based artist, writer, lecturer, and performer Meghan Elizabeth Trainor. This is the complete recording. This invite-only gallery event was streamed online via Zoom. The conversation with be facilitated by CoCA Curator Negarra A. Kudumu and is in support of CoCA’s current exhibition Let Us Not Confuse Zero with the Stillness of Electrons. In this exhibition, Let Us Not Confuse Zero with the Stillness of Electrons: July 1 - Aug 21 , Meghan Elizabeth Trainor continues her long standing activist investigations into the language and ideology of computer science. Trainor’s work is contextualized historically within pre-Christian, indigenous European spiritual traditions that centered The Hedge - both a border between village and the wild, but also the locus that separated the physical realm from the Otherworld. Caretaking The Hedge was executed primarily, though not exclusively - by women spiritualists and healers - stewards of the land if you will - who in partnership with nature spirits, served simultaneously as the conductors and the interlocuteurs between this world and the Other.