What is the shape of this wound? Katherine Toukhy welcomes you to engage with materials created in her participatory research of the past year. When she started her research last year, Toukhy didn’t exactly know the question she was after. She only knew that safe space was needed to express rage, grief, absurdity, reinvention, in response to the current political repression. Through intimate group explorations with her thought partners, Obadah Aljefri and Nadia Khayrallah, supported by Culture Push, she catalyzed a process of somatic movement, drawing, and writing. “What is the shape of this wound?” has become the question that emerged from these explorations. Paradoxically, she ends the fellowship having found the question rather than any clear answers - which feels like an appropriate accomplishment for these times. Join her at the Symposium to further explore, through interactive engagement and a minimalist installation, dynamic emergent ways of sensory knowing.

Rain Date: June 26th 6-8pm

About Katherine Toukhy:

Katherine Toukhy is an artist and creative facilitator who has resided in Brooklyn (unceded Lenapehoking) for over a decade and grew up part of a small Coptic Egyptian diaspora in Rhode Island. In the studio, she draws upon movement, plant life, and her intersectional reality to transform figurative shapes into mixed media for public and private installations.

About Culture Push + Show Don't Tell:

Culture Push is an arts organization that supports artists and creative thinkers using imaginative, participatory methods to address social and civic challenges. Operating at the intersection of art, social justice, and public engagement, Culture Push fosters collaboration, experimentation, and new ways of thinking through hands-on, community-driven projects.

The Show Don’t Tell Symposium is Culture Push’s annual gathering of artists and creative changemakers who share works-in-progress developed through Fellowship-supported civic experiments. Through interactive installations, performances, and participatory workshops, the Symposium invites the public into imaginative acts of collective learning, care, and resistance—spotlighting practices that push the boundaries of how art can move in the world.