Artist Talk #1: Mnemosyne

Featuring: William Adair, Artemis Herber, Sanzi Kermes, Amanda Newall, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Judith Pratt, and Marc Robarge

Location: Hyman Forum in Sanford J. Ungar Athenaeum at Goucher College, Baltimore, MD

Goucher Art Galleries is pleased to present the first artist talk of Mnemosyne – Memory as a Voice for Nature, exploring memory as a generative force in shaping relationships to land, material, and ecological systems.

This first artist talk brings together a group of artists and thinkers whose practices span installation, sculpture, sound, performance, moving image, legal theory, and environmental inquiry. Collectively, the speakers investigate how memory operates across bodies, landscapes, and infrastructures—surfacing histories embedded in material processes, spatial arrangements, and systems of governance.

Participating artists will present their work and research in relation to the Mnemosyne framework, reflecting on questions of land use, environmental justice, ritual, embodiment, and the unseen forces that shape lived experience. The conversation will consider how artistic…