Artist Every Ocean Hughes Screening
Artist Every Ocean Hughes joins for a screening and conversation for One Big Bag
Held in conjunction with Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions. Presented in partnership with the Honors College Medicine & Society Minor, the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, and the Arts Leadership Program, Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston
Date:
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Location:
Honors Commons, Honors College
Format:
Join us for a film screening of One Big Bag, followed by a roundtable discussion with artist Every Ocean Hughes in dialog with Amanda Cachia (assistant professor, Arts Leadership), MaryScott Hage (death doula and grief tender), and Woods Nash (assistant professor of behavioral and social sciences, College of Medicine).
5:30pm, Reception
6:00pm, Screening
6:45pm, Conversation and Q&A
About the Artist(s)
Every Ocean Hughes (b. 1977, Easton, MD, USA. Lives and works in Stockholm and New York, NY, USA) wrote, staged, and directed the video work One Big Bag, which takes the form of a monologue from the perspective of a doula to explain the materials that comprise an end-of-life doula’s toolbox.
Amanda Cachia is a curator, consultant, writer and art historian who specializes in disability art activism across intersectional axes of difference, including gender, race, and sexuality. She is Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Masters of Arts in Arts Leadership Graduate Program at the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston, where she also serves as Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Museum and Gallery Management, and the Graduate Certificate in Arts and Health. Cachia is the author of The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique (2024) and the editor of Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation (2022), which includes over 40 international contributors. She is the 2024 recipient of the $50,000 National Arts and Disability Award (Established) issued by Creative Australia (formerly Australia Council for the Arts). She is also a 2023 grantee of the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and received the 2024 Millard Meiss Publication Grant from the College Art Association.
MaryScott Hagle has always been drawn to big questions. MaryScott founded Compassionate Deathcare Houston to bring the mission of Village Deathcare to Houston: empowering individuals and families to support each other through death and its aftermath. Previously she was executive director of a Buddhist center before finding her calling as a death doula and grief tender. She trained with Anne-Marie Keppel, the founder of Village Deathcare and with Francis Weller, Jungian practitioner and author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow. Hagel has also taught high school English, yoga, dance, after-school art and swimming; and was director of education and outreach at the Alley Theatre for seven years. She majored in Philosophy at Wellesley College and received a Master’s degree in Architecture from UT Austin.
Woods Nash is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the UH College of Medicine. His teaching and scholarship are at the intersection of ethics, literary studies, creative writing, narrative medicine, and the arts.
Image: Every Ocean Hughes, One Big Bag, 2021. Video still, 40 minutes, color video with sound. Courtesy of artist, KADIST collection.