A Request by the Ambassadors from the East: An Audience. Reception with Refreshments to be followed by an Offering. Date and Time will be sent upon RSVPing. To enquire about RSVPing contact ica@vcu.edu.

spread (embassy) is a part of MURRMUR: Blurs and Senses, the second iteration of Misread Unread Read Re-Read Misread Unread Re-Read (MURRMUR), a research framework and exhibition series that expands how we think about reading, publishing, and distributing art and ideas. This Spring 2024 reprise of the series asks: Whatdrives our impulse to discard? What drives our desire to keep? How do the traces of what no longer remains affect our experience of the present?

About sssssssssSsss
sssssssssSsss is a practice of sharing, studying, and strengthening within and through friendship. sSsssssssssss is usually casual, always undisciplined, and frequently invisible. It is pronounced as a sibilant s. ssssssssSssss resides between Ashkan Sepahvand and Virgil B/G Taylor.