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20S x CCC | The Language of Belonging: Mark Adams, Andrew Joseph & Shonagh Marshall in Conversation

  • 20S Annex 494 Commercial Street Provincetown, MA, 02657 United States (map)

$20 Suggested Donation

Please join Twenty Summers and Cape Cod Compass for ‘The Language of Belonging’ — a discussion about the experience of coming to Cape Cod, being on Cape Cod, and belonging on Cape Cod. The conversation will feature artist Mark Adams, linguist Andrew Joseph and fashion historian Shonagh Marshall, and will be moderated by Aaron Binaco, publisher of Cape Cod Compass.

"When we started thinking about the first issue of Cape Cod Compass we knew that showing the Cape wholly wouldn't be possible. This first issue is a glance across the spit of land we all love — both an homage to the original publication, and an attempt to look at a peninsula experiencing rapid change." -- Aaron Binaco

Mark Adams is a painter, printmaker, and a cartographer with the National Park Service and has been based on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard since 1987. Adams has taught at the Provincetown Art Association, Castle Hill Center for the Arts (Truro MA), and the Provincetown School Academy program and as a guest in the MFA program of the Fine Arts Work Center/Massachusetts College of Art. He has studied ecology, landscape architecture, printmaking and photography at University of California, Berkeley, California College of Arts and Crafts and studied with artists at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He also worked as a wildlife field biologist, scientific illustrator, forest fire fighter, gymnastics coach. His current interests include geologic time, taxonomies, coordinate systems and layering of information in maps.

Andrew Joseph, is a historical linguist (PhD Cornell University) with a research focus on northeast Asian languages. His dissertation--about an endangered minority language in China--grew out of research conducted during a Fulbright fellowship in 2005. He and his husband Karl, both originally from New York State, recently washed ashore in Provincetown.

Shonagh Marshall is a curator, writer, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. Shonagh’s writing, focusing on fashion and contemporary culture, has appeared in AnOther, Vogue, 10, System, and The Face. As a curator, Shonagh has worked internationally with institutions such as Somerset House, the Powerhouse Museum, and the V&A and with brands like The Outnet. Her exhibitions have garnered high-level press attention and visitor numbers. Shonagh lectures internationally and holds a faculty positions at the School of Visual Arts.

Cape Cod Compass is a new magazine dedicated to exploring art, design, environment, and culture within coastal communities founded by Aaron Binaco and Rachel Hahn.

Aaron Binaco is an interdisciplinary creative working at the intersection of environment, culture and design. He is the founder of Sundial, a creative studio working across emerging tech, and maintains his own practice of photography and filmmaking.

Rachel Hahn is a writer and editor. She is currently the Deputy Editor of PIN-UP Magazine. She’s a contributor to The Nation, Vogue, The Whitney Review, Pitchfork and more.

Contributors include Bobby Doherty, Caroline Tompkins, Cole Barash, Jen Olsen, Abraham Storer, Peter McMahon, Bella Hay, David Brandon Geeting, Ryan Lowry, Russel Frank, Adam Kremer, Kenyon Anderson and Shonagh Marshall. 

Banner photo by Caroline Tompkins

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