Can a hanky keep a secret? Can a napkin tell a tale?
Inspired by Spike Island’s exhibition, Nancy Lupo: Several Chickens Later, multidisciplinary artist and folklorist Johnny Morgan-Jones invites participants to explore sculpture, performance, and speculative storytelling through found fabrics, imbuing them with meaning and movement.
Together, we will “haunt” these everyday objects with invented histories, magical value, and temporary domestic mythologies, transforming familiar materials into uncanny emotional vessels.
You will take part in word games, hands-on and intuitive crafting, with a finale exploring the theatrical activation of sculpture through site-responsive performance in the public spaces of Spike Island.
Handkerchiefs will become characters, relics, supernatural thought-projections, and emotional stand-ins, occupying a space between the mundane and the uncanny, revealing the speculative and fantastical banal lives embedded within ordinary domestic materials.
This workshop is open to all ages and abilities, and all materials are provided. No previous performance experience needed.
Nancy Lupo (b. 1983, USA) received her BFA from The Cooper Union, New York City, NY and her MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Selected solo exhibitions of Lupo’s work include: Meow Meow Real Estate, Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, London (2026); Tom, Stadtgalerie Bern (2026); Disko, Kevin Space, Vienna (2025); Princessletthewind, Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern, Schwerin, Germany (2025); Scripts for the Pageant at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, CA (2019); The Square at Noon at the Visual Arts Center in Austin, TX (2019); Parent and Parroting, Swiss Institute, New York City, NY (2016). Her work has previously been acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA and Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. In 2024, she has been appointed as a professor at Kunsthochschule Mainz. She lives and works in Berlin.
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