Mims and Mười present

MAROONING BODIES: PROTOTYPE AS PROPHECY

 

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, SPRING 2026

 

Monday, February 9–Saturday, April 18

@ FCCW: 3053 ROSSLYN ST. LA, CA 90065

 

 

We are thrilled to present our Spring 2026 Artist in Residence project Marooning Bodies: Prototype as Prophecy presented by Mims and Mười. Rooted in the long-term project Marooning Bodies, which has developed over four years across the U.S. and West Africa, this iteration of the project includes an evolving open studio, which invites the public into an archive of future relics from a speculative world, as well as a beautifully crafted, immersive worldbuilding game, which asks communities to deeply reconsider how they might live, govern, heal, and create together. 

 

During the residency at FCCW, Mims and Mười will host two public Marooning Bodies gameplay sessions on-site. These sessions will generate new material for the archive in real-time, allowing visitors to witness how collective imagination is transformed into cultural memory. The residency will also culminate in the creation of a new Future Relic, a book that gathers and preserves these emerging future histories. 

 

The open studio weaves together three interrelated archives:

1. the archive of the game’s creation, tracing the evolution of its tools, questions, and systems; 
2. the archive of players’ collective imagination, including drawings, writings, rituals, and speculative histories generated through gameplay;
3. and the archive of Future Relics, ceremonial art objects that emerge from these imagined futures and give them physical form.

 

Together, these materials form an altar-like environment where process becomes primary. Visitors are invited to read, listen, handle, and contribute to the archive, blurring the boundary between artist, participant, and historian. We invite you to sign-up for private tours with Mims and Mười of the artists’ Open Studio to learn more about their work. 

 

Presented by Mims, Founder of Marooning Bodies, and Muoi, Creative Director of Marooning Bodies.

 

SCHEDULE OF PROGRAMS

 

Marooning Bodies Gameplay Session — Saturday, March 14, 4–7PM @ FCCW

Marooning Bodies Gameplay Session — Saturday, April 4, 12–3PM @ FCCW

Closing Exhibition Event — Saturday, April 18, 6–8PM @ FCCW

Schedule a private Open Studio Visit with Marooning Bodies

 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

 

Mims is the founder of Marooning Bodies, and is behind the curation and creative direction of the project’s many expansions. She is an artist, abolitionist, and facilitator based in Los Angeles. Her work moves across performance art, advocacy, public art, social practice, and fine art objects. She experiences the body as a site of liberation and approaches it as her first place of inquiry. Through an ongoing exploration of relationship between self, others, land, and more than human life, Mims grounds her practice in embodied knowing. She is deeply interested in questioning as a tool for collective understanding, the role of interpersonal relationships in building healthy communities, and the sacred wisdom held in cultures and ecosystems around the world.

 

Muoi is behind the creative direction, research, and design for Marooning Bodies. They begin with the practice of research as a declaration of love. Their body of work is born from this process. Each project comes as a search for new ways to hold community; in search of new ways to write love letters. They create from a framework that holds imagining and remembering as two sides of the same coin. By their hands— research not only provides a home for historic context, but generates new paths towards wonder, and imbues projects with meaningful action on the issues of our present. From film, to the written word, to painting, to spatial and graphic design, their interdisciplinary practice is sharpened by the call to bring collective dreams into our waking lives. With a background in architecture, law, and public policy, they navigate multiple mediums to manifest budding ideas into living, breathing projects.