In anticipation of Charles Gaines’s first live performance of Manifestos 2 (2013) at the Museum of Modern Art, join us for a workshop and field trip beginning with a brief tour of Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974–1989, followed by an interactive movement exercise enacted as participants travel to MoMA in time for the performance and discussion. Led by Elliott Maltby—a designer and founding partner of thread collective, a collaborative design studio that explores the seams between building, art and landscape—the movement workshop will encourage participants to adapt and apply the arbitrary, rule-based systems that underpin Gaines’s works. Participants will animate the unique grid of Manhattan, calling on and channeling the themes of conceptualism that will be explored more in depth in MoMA’s theater by panelists Sean Griffin, Stuart Comer, Naima J. Keith and Charles Gaines himself.