Workshop:
Land / Notation / Score
with Omer Wasim
Land / Notation / Score
Friday, June 5th, from 3 to 6 PM
FREE, registration required
Open to SMA Members and SOU Students
Join us for a workshop led by 2026 VAST (Visiting Artist & Scholar in Teaching) resident Omer Wasim. This workshop asks: how can we think about landscape beyond the framed view? Beginning with examples of artists who work with text, participants will take a guided walk and return to the studio for writing time. Rather than simply using text as description, the workshop approaches words as material for making scores and notations that turn to land as inhabited, contested, and remembered. Wasim, a Yale MFA graduate, will guide participants through this process.
Workshop Details
Date: June 5
Time: 3 – 6 PM (3 Hours)
Who: Open to SMA members and SOU students. Free, registration required. Not a member? Become one now!
Location: Meet in front of the Museum Entrance
Capacity: Limited to 12 participants to ensure personalized instruction.
Skill Level: All are welcome to join.
Note: We will be outdoors for a guided walk. Please dress comfortably and bring a water bottle.
All materials will be provided
About the Artist
Omer Wasim (b. 1988, Karachi, Pakistan) is an intermedial artist whose work bears witness to the relentless erasure, violence, and destruction of our times by engaging with disappeared and emergent ecologies, the spectres of postmemory, and the minutiae of daily life. Weaving in and out of the personal, as caught in the crosshairs of social and political upheavals, he gathers and transforms ephemeral, sonic, and more-than-human traces into works that resist state amnesia, historical erasure, and un-belonging in territories across South Asia. Wasim’s solo and collaborative projects have been shown at the National Museum of Qatar, the Yokohama Triennale, Sonsbeek 20→24, and the Dhaka Art Summit; at Jameel Arts Centre, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, and Centre A; and in artist-led and regional platforms, including Colomboscope, Khoj, the Cairo Video Festival, and the Karachi Biennale, among others. Wasim graduated from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in Sculpture in 2025.
