Step into Marooning Bodies, a unique participatory art experience that invites us to gather, imagine and create together. Through intentional prompts and reflection, we’ll explore what it might mean to build a community grounded in collective care, shared responsibility and new possibilities for living together.

Guided by artist and creator Mims, we’ll move through a series of scenarios that spark curiosity, connection and collaboration. Along the way, there will be opportunities to express ideas through writing, drawing, movement and discussion. No special skills or experience is required. Neither a performance nor a lecture, Marooning Bodies is an immersive and welcoming space for anyone interested in discovering what can emerge when we share stories together.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mims is an artist, abolitionist, and facilitator based in Los Angeles. Her work spans performance, advocacy, public art, social practice, and the creation of fine art objects. She experiences the body as a site of liberation and approaches it as her first place of inquiry. Grounded in embodied knowing, her practice explores relationships between self, community, land, and more-than-human life. She is deeply interested in questioning as a tool for collective understanding, the role of interpersonal relationships in building healthy communities, and the sacred wisdom held in cultures and ecosystems around the world.

She is the founder of Marooning Bodies, an immersive worldbuilding game and artistic ecosystem rooted in maroon histories, biomimicry, and communal imagination. She is also the creator of Uncle Ronnie’s Room, an installation and advocacy project centering her uncle’s incarceration and the collective labor of abolition.

Mims’ work has been supported by the California Arts Council, Converse, LA County Department of Arts and Culture, NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts, and residencies in Senegal and Ghana.