Preview | List Projects 33: Every Ocean Hughes

September 17, 2025
Special Program
Dark open space with a video projected on a large standing screen in the back of the space. There are a collection of everyday items hanging from strings throughout the space.

Installation view: Every Ocean Hughes, One Big Bag, Studio Voltaire, London, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist and Studio Voltaire. Photo: Francis Ware

Location
MIT List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames Street, Building E15, Cambridge, MA 02139
Day & Time
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Admission
To RSVP, please email: listcomms@mit.edu

Please join members and friends of the List Center for a preview of our 33rd List Projects exhibition, featuring the work of Every Ocean Hughes.

Join the exhibition curators for a behind the scenes tour and conversation with the artist. 

In Every Ocean Hughes’s recent video installation, One Big Bag (2021), Hughes stages a monologue by a millennial death doula (performed by Lindsay Rico with choreography by Miguel Gutierrez). Refusing the fictions of euphemism or recourse to nuclear family, One Big Bag insists on alternative forms of kinship and communion made in and around death when it is confronted as a brute and beautiful fact.

5:00 PM – Check In
5:10–5:50 PM – First screening of One Big Bag (40 minutes)
6:00 PM – Remarks from Director, Curator, and artist
6:15–6:55 PM – Second screening of One Big Bag (40 minutes)

The List Center encourages attendees to take public transit, bike or walk to the event. To RSVP, please email listcomms [at] mit.edu (listcomms[at]mit[dot]edu).

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