In connection with MexiCali Biennial, the PARA/normal Borders Conversation Series of three public events brings together MacArthur Fellows whose work expands our understanding of borders across literature, film visual art, music and critical scholarship. This second event features MacArthur Fellows Sky Hopinka (2022) and Maggie Nelson (2016) in conversation to explore how artistic practice becomes a way of knowing. Working across experimental film, creative nonfiction, philosophy, and visual culture, their presentations of individual work and conversation consider how memory, perception, language, and embodied experience shape our understanding of place, history, and one another. Together, they examine how art creates new ways of seeing, remembering, and imagining the world.
October 15, 2026
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Atkinson Hall Auditorium, University of California
San Diego, CA
