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Lectures and Workshops start 4/5
Participating
artists' bios | Schedule of Events
Connecting you to the Contemporary Art that makes
a difference in the world
This
program will examine the movement of peoples, ideas, and art as
a result of three primary contemporary forces: tourism, migration,
and exile. In each of these situations the person moving is essentially
an outsider who engages with the culture of habitation in a way
that is distinctly different than that of the members of the dominant
culture.
The tourist comes as an observer to see a different place
for a short period of time and the accommodations for tourism focus
on the traveler as a source of income.
Migration today can be between countries or within countries,
it is a force that pre-dates the existence of borders and is a major
cause for the diversification of populations and the enrichment
of culture and communities. Migrating peoples bring cultural and
social practices, foods and culinary styles, art and ideas that
can add immeasurably to the resulting population. Although much
of the history of nations involves migrations, the individual or
groups migrating today are more often than not seen as a threat
or a problem.
Exile is another force that implies both political and
social impetus. Whether between nations or within nations, the history
of human societies is marked by trails of human movement in response
to oppressive conditions. The artist can take the viewer to places
and present situations that would otherwise be nearly inaccessible,
opening doors and minds to the realities of human movement in contemporary
society in all its many forms.
For
more information call 505
424-5050.
Artist
Bios and event descriptions
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| Zelie
Pollon
Raw: Images of War
Five Years of US Occupation in Iraq
Photographs by Zelie Pollon. projected on SFAI outside walls.
3/19– 3/31, SFAI
Zelie
Pollon is a freelance journalist based in Santa Fe. Her first trip
to Iraq was in 2003 for The Baghdad Project: One hundred voices,
One hundred faces – A story about war. She returned in 2005
to cover the elections and found a changed – and exponentially
more violent country. Things have only worsened since then. Many
of the images in Raw: Images of War are not the ones most people
see on American TV, in newspapers or in magazines, as they are gruesome
and violent. But this is the real Iraq, the real war, the war that
people in Iraq see and live with every day. Now entering the fifth
year of US occupation, Pollon wants to dedicate this year’s
memorial to the children of Iraq, hundreds of thousands of whom
are suffering from severe post traumatic stress disorder. Says Zelie,
“I pray that my son will never experience the kind of terror,
or witness the kind of images, that children in Iraq witness day
in and day out.”
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| Jose
Obando
4/5 Workshop, SFAI
4/7 Lecture / Performance - TBD
KSFR
Radio Café PODCAST
Jose
Obando has dedicated his life to the study of Salsa and its 350+
years of evolution in the United States – specifically Spanish
Harlem. His consultancy, Lubona Corporation/Salsa Sight, offers
a series of educational programs around this rich and fascinating
history. Obando is also the Salsa Consultant for the Musical Instruments
Department of the Metropolital Museum of Art, and is currently expanding
its collection.
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Lester /
freeDimensional
4/21 freeDimensional Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
4/22–25 freeDimensional Workshop, SFAI
KSFR
Radio Café PODCAST
Todd
Lester is the Executive Director of freeDimensional, an organization
dedicated to the support and protection of individuals who create
dialogue on global issues and inequalities through their art and
media. For issues to reach society at large, free and open expression
is critical. At times imposed limitations or censorship require
movement of voices and ideas in order for expression to be possible,
safe, and unrestricted. By connecting critical people, places, and
issues freeDimensional serves as a platform of collaboration for
linking artistic communities to creative individuals and social
justice movements worldwide.
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| Laurie
Hawkinson
5/1 Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
5/2 Workshop, SFAI
In
conjunction with the Santa Fe Chapter of the American Institute
of Architects, architects Laurie Hawkinson and Neil Denari will
speak about Architectural Tectonics in Contemporary Culture. Hawkinson
is a partner in the New York City based architectural firm Smith-Miller+Hawkinson.
She will be speaking specifically on the topic of “Transparency
and Representation.” Neil Denari is the founder of Neil M.
Denari Architects of Los Angeles.
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| Shanna
Ketchum
5/5 Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
4/6–9 Workshop, SFAI
Shanna
Ketchum is a noted critic and art historian of contemporary Native
American art. Her articles have appeared in major publications across
the globe including Third Text (London), Estrago
(Latin America), Smithsonian National Museum of the American
Indian, and the Plains Art Museum (USA). Ketchum lectures,
both nationally and internationally, about contemporary issues in
Native art.
More(pdf)>
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| Andrea
Robbins and Max Becher
6/2 Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
6/3–6 Workshop, SFAI
The
primary focus of Robbins and Becher’s work is, what they call,
the transportation of place – situations in which one limited
or isolated place strongly resembles another distant one. Everywhere,
not only in the new world, such situations are accumulating and
accepted as genuine locales. Traditional notions of place, in which
culture and geographic location neatly coincide, are being challenged
by legacies of slavery, colonialism, holocaust, immigration, tourism,
and mass-communication.
More(pdf)>
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| Armando
Espinosa and
Craig
Johnson
7/21 Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
7/22–25 Workshop, SFAI
Espinosa
and Johnson’s current project – The Metamorfosis
Documentation Project – is a cinematic and photographic
project of cross-cultural dances and rituals of indigenous and mestizo
communities throughout the Americas. They hope, through the Metamorfosis
Project to help strengthen these communities and promote understanding
of their cultures by not only documenting the dances rituals, but
by presenting the documentaries to the communities for their study
and use, and including them in exhibitions on a wider scale to the
outside world.
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| Nancy
Reyner
7/21-25 Workshop, SFAI
Nancy
Reyner is a painter with more than 30 years experience who exhibits,
lectures and teaches locally and nationally. Her varied experiences
add technical expertise and originality to her work and her teaching.
In her SFAI workshop, “Taming the Acrylic Beast,” Reyner
will teach all the tips and tricks needed for effortless acrylic
painting in any style.
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| Laurie
Anderson
TBD August
Laurie
Anderson is arguably this country’s premier performance artist.
Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself
in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer,
filmmaker, experimental electronics musician, vocalist, and instrumentalist.
In 2003, she became NASA's first, and so far only, artist-in-residence.
Anderson is fascinated and inspired by the effects of technology
on human interrelationships and communication.
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| Deborah
Madison
TBD August
Deborah
Madison is a world-renowned chef, founder of Greens restaurant
in San Francisco, author of numerous cookbooks, and leader in the
Slow Food movement. Madison will talk about the migration of culture
and ideas through food, and how food is an essential part of overall
cultural identity and the merging of peoples across the globe. About
exactly this, Madison says, “Today, of course, we take all
this for granted. The distance that food—vegetarian and otherwise—has
traveled in the past two and a half decades is truly amazing.”
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| Guy
Tillim
9/8 Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
9/9–12 Workshop, SFAI
Guy
Tillim is one of South Africa’s foremost contemporary photographers.
Learning his trade as photojournalist nearly two decades ago, Tillim’s
work has proven to be far more than that of orthodox reportage.
His images emerge from the complexities of aftermath and the nuanced
details of everyday life in what is reductively termed ‘conflict
zones’. They freeze gestures and textures that might otherwise
be overlooked and a tension is created between the banality of place
and the drama of historical context.
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| Fazal
Sheikh
10/13 Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
TBD Workshop, SFAI
To
travel, and to observe carefully and with sympathy the people whose
lands he visits has been Fazal Sheikh’s practice from the
beginning. Most often his work has been with displaced people driven
out of their homelands by civil wars, drought and famine, struggling
to survive for years in refugee camps where the traditional balance
of their lives has been entirely destroyed. Sheikh’s award-winning
images are beautiful and haunting, and do not simply provoke, but
demand that the viewer contemplate the humanity of his subjects.
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| Chrissie
Orr
11/17 Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
11/11-14 Workshop, SFAI
Chrissie
Orr is an artist, animator and activist who focuses on developing
“an aesthetic around community and site with issues relevant
to both.” Orr has created innovative community based projects
in Australia, Iran, Turkey, Europe, Mexico and the U.S. She has
lectured internationally on her work, especially regarding the Bridge
Project, which addressed issues on the border between El Paso,
Texas and Cuidad Juarez, Mexico.
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| Hamid
Naficy
11/17 Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
11/18 Workshop, SFAI
Hamid
Naficy’s research focuses on comparative media theory, film
and television history, Middle Eastern studies and diaspora studies.
He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants from federal agencies,
foundations, corporations and professional societies. Naficy has
produced many educational films and experimental videos and has
published extensively about theories of exile and displacement,
exilic and diaspora cinema and media, and Iranian and Third World
cinemas.
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| Alfredo
Jaar
12/8 Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
12/9–12 Workshop, SFAI
In
installations, photographs, film, and community-based projects,
Jaar explores the public’s desensitization to images and the
limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics,
and famines. Jaar’s work bears witness to military conflicts,
political corruption, and imbalances of power between industrialized
and developing nations. Subjects addressed in his work include the
genocide in Rwanda, gold mining in Brazil, toxic pollution in Nigeria,
and issues related to the border between Mexico and the United States.
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| Lucy
Lippard
12/15 Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
Lucy
Lippard is an world-renown writer, activist and curator. She is
the author of eighteen books on contemporary art and has written
art criticism for Art in America, The Village Voice, In These Times,
and Z Magazine. Lippard has also curated over 50 exhibitions, done
performances, comics, guerrilla theater, and edited several independent
publications, the latest of which is the decidedly local “La
Puente de Galisteo” in her home community of Galisteo, New
Mexico.
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Eric Dyson
TBD Discussing Spike Lee’s “When the
Levees Broke”
Georgetown
University professor Dr. Michael Eric Dyson has been named by Ebony
magazine as one of the hundred most influential black Americans.
He is the author of fourteen books, including Come Hell or High
Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster, in which
Dyson gives the victims of Hurricane Katrina a voice in a time when
the government and many Americans have seemingly forgotten that
race and class continue to divide the United States.
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Williams
TBD “Banished”
Filmmaker
and New York University professor Marco Williams's documentaries
offer an unflinching look at hard issues like racism, injustice,
and the black American experience. In filming personal issues such
as the search for his father or the repercussions of a black man’s
murder at the hands of white racists, Williams has created a body
of work that rises above its subjects. His film “Banished”
is a documentary about four U.S. cities, which were part of many
communities that violently forced African American families to flee
in post-reconstruction America.
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Schedule
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Santa
Fe Art Institute 2008, and OUTSIDER: Tourism, Migration, and Exile Schedule
of Events
April
4/5 – Jose Obando, Workshop
4/7 – Jose Obando, Lecture/Performance - TBD
4/21 – Todd Lester/freeDimensional, Lecture - Tipton Hall
4/22-24 Todd Lester/freeDimensional, Workshop - SFAI
4/24
– Artist & Writers in Residence Open Studio, 5:30 pm
May
5/1 – Laurie Hawkinson, Lecture - Tipton Hall
5/2 – Laurie Hawkinson, Workshop - SFAI
5/5 – Shanna Ketchum, Lecture - Tipton Hall
5/6-9 Shanna Ketchum, Workshop - SFAI
5/22
– Artist & Writers in Residence Open Studio, 5.30 pm
June
6/2 – Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Lecture - Tipton Hall
6/3-6 – Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Workshop - SFAI
6/19 – Artist & Writers in Residence Open Studio, 5.30 pm
July
7/21
– Armando Espinosa & Craig Johnson, Lecture - Tipton Hall
7/22-25 – Armando Espinosa & Craig Johnson, Workshop –
SFAI
7/21-25 – Nancy Reyner, “Taming the Acrylic Beast”,
Workshop -SFAI
August
TBD – Laurie Anderson
TBD – Deborah Madison
September
9/8 – Guy Tillim, Lecture - Tipton Hall
9/9-12 – Guy Tillim, Workshop - SFAI
TBD – Neil Denari, Lecture - Tipton Hall
October
10/13 – Fazal Sheikh, Lecture - Tipton Hall
TBD – Fazal Sheikh, Workshop - SFAI
November
11/10 – Chrissie Orr, Lecture - Tipton Hal
l11/11-14 – Chrissie Orr, Workshop - SFAI
11/17 – Hamid Naficy, Lecture - Tipton Hall
11/18 – Hamid Naficy, Workshop – SFAI
December
12/8 – Alfredo Jaar, Lecture - Tipton Hall12/9-12 – Alfredo
Jaar, Workshop - SFAI
12/15 – Lucy Lippard, Lecture - Tipton Hall
TBD
– Marco Williams - “Banished”
TBD – Michael Eric Dyson - Discussing Spike Lee’s
“When the Levees Broke”
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