EMOtual Aid with Amy Khoshbin
August 10, 7:00PM EST

EMOtual Aid is a dialogue-based support and meditation session that reconnects healing with collective liberation. In our current sociopolitical climate of unrest, emotional mutual aid builds solidarity and strength through softening, sitting with uncomfortability, and opening up together. Led by Amy Khoshbin, an Iranian-American Brooklyn-based artist, activist, and educator, this series of EMOtual Aid sessions will address three topics: the courage to take action, allyship, and harnessing the power of the media to create positive social change. 

Register now for the third session!

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Amy Khoshbin is an Iranian-American Brooklyn-based artist, activist, and educator. Her practice, as an artist and pedagogue, builds bridges between disparate communities to counteract fear with a collective sense of empowered radical acceptance. She pushes the formal and conceptual boundaries of artmaking to foster progressive social change through performance, social practice, video, collage, sculpture, rap music, installation, teaching and writing. She has shown at venues such as The Whitney Museum of American Art The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Times Square Arts, Artpace, The High Line, Socrates Sculpture Park, VOLTA Art Fair, Leila Heller Gallery, Arsenal Contemporary, National Sawdust, BRIC Arts, and festivals such as River to River and South by Southwest. She has received residencies at spaces such as The Watermill Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Project for Empty Space, Anderson Ranch, and Banff Centre for the Arts. She has received a Franklin Furnace Fund and a Rema Hort Mann Artist Community Engagement Grant. Khoshbin received an MA from New York University in Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in Film and Media Studies at University of Texas at Austin. She has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Karen Finley, House of Trees, Tina Barney, and poets Anne Carson and Bob Currie among others.