The MassArt Graduate Programs invite you to the 2025 Low-Residency MFA January Colloquium where we are pleased to welcome Hiba Ali, Star Feliz, and Bahareh Khoshooee as our artist panel - Trickster Practices: Being Everywhere Belonging Nowhere. Join us via Zoom on Thursday, January 9 at 3:00pm ET.

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Artist Panel: Trickster Practices: Being Everywhere Belonging Nowhere

This panel discussion, featuring artists Star Feliz, Hiba Ali, Bahareh Khoshooee, and moderated by Falaks Vasa, explores what it means to embody the trickster in the art world. Trickster practices defy boundaries, moving fluidly between multiple realms, resisting singular definitions. We will unpack how the roles of trickster and impostor intersect and how they challenge traditional notions of belonging and kinship. How can embracing trickster practices push us as artists to rethink our relationships to the artworld – and to one another?

About: Every winter, students in MassArt’s MFA: Fine Arts (low-residency) program gather virtually for five days to engage in a colloquium and review. Each of these intensives are organized around a theme and features guest speakers and visiting artists. 

2025 January Colloquium Theme: Impostors Only: Fake It Till You Break It
“I do not belong here.” Impostors Only invites you to investigate your responses to such a statement, often unspoken, but deeply felt. Together, we will unpack this internal feeling of fraudulence not just as personal anxiety, but as a socio-political construction shaped by external power relations. We will then ask: What becomes possible when we embrace impostorship in our creative practices? How do we turn fraudulence into a radical, generative tool for art? How do we shift our understandings of amateurism, belonging, and kinship? And how, after all, do we fake it till we break it?

This event is free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu.

Image detail: Hiba Ali, Lullabies for the stars in our eyes, exhibition installation view, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX, 2025, 6 video projection, VR headset, Bakhoor incense, headphones, vinyl stickers, sand, and reflective material, 18:33, 2024