Magical Thinking is a free public symposium exploring causal, alogical, and ritualistic modes of knowledge formation co-convened by artist manuel arturo abreu and curator, writer, and art historian Laurel V. McLaughlin in dialogue with MASS MoCA Director of Public Programs, Lisa Dent. It invites audiences to see signs, relationships, and links within the material and spiritual worlds through performances, lectures, poetry readings, experimental media presentations, and sound activations.

Participants: manuel arturo abreu, DB Amorin, fields harrington, sidony o’neal, Jonathan González, and Africanus Okokon, Emilio Rojas, Tavia Nyong’o, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Rebecca Schneider, M. nourbeSe Philip, and S*an D. Henry Smith.