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SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 5 – 6:30 PM Biennial Panel Biennial artists will share their experiences in creating their commissioned works for the exhibition. Curatorial partners Alexie Glass, Colin Chinnery, and Ferran Barenblit will lead the discussion. National Dance Institute 1140 Alto Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Join us for this lively and engaging free-for-all as participants outline the highlights of the Biennial exhibition experience, and welcome comments from the audience as part of the participatory component of the curatorial concept. Artists and curators will address the Biennial’s guiding principles of collaboration, process, experimentation, and ephemerality, among other topics of their choosing. Sponsored by Gebert Contemporary & Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art |
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TUESDAY, JULY 8, 6 PM TALK AS TALK CAN: A Conversation with Luchezar Boyadjiev, Eliza Naranjo Morse, Nora Naranjo Morse, and Rose B. Simpson Much has been made of the community component of Lucky Number Seven— both physically and metaphorically—and these artists could be said to personify the nature of the community of this exhibition. Through their ideological approach to their works, as well as the execution of the actual pieces, they literally make use of the community resources to amplify and enhance the message of their respective art practices. Join us for an informal conversation between Biennial artists Luchezar Boyadjiev, Eliza Naranjo Morse, Nora Naranjo Morse, and Rose B. Simpson as they discuss how the shifting notion of community informs their respective artistic practices. Based in Sofia, Bulgaria, Luchezar Boyadjiev makes art through communication that attempts to break down cultural barriers that all too frequently divide communities and individuals. For Lucky Number Seven, Boyadjiev organized and trained a group of young people from Santa Fe to be a part of his Art Squad. During the Biennial, they travel to different cultural institutions in Santa Fe interacting with people and speaking to visitors about subjects ranging from contemporary art to the environment. For Boyadjiev, dialogue is art, and the exchanges that occur between people often reveal new, unknown perspectives. Eliza Naranjo Morse, Nora Naranjo Morse, and Rose B. Simpson are a family of artists from Santa Clara Pueblo. Although each artist works in her own medium, ideas about the land and community are integral to their respective practices. For this exhibition, the artists created a line made from adobe and other organic materials that traverses the interior of SITE Santa Fe, while extending out into various off-site locations throughout the city. Taking the basic form of a line, their elegant work functions as a physical and psychological link between objects, people, space, and place. Co-sponsored by Bellas Artes |
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 6 PM TOD WILLIAMS AND BILLIE TSIEN, ARCHITECTS Current Work “We see architecture as an act of profound optimism. Its foundation lies in believing that it is possible to make places on the earth that can give a sense of grace to life – and in believing that that matters.” - Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Tod Williams and Billie Tsien’s architecture aims to alter our personal and collective experiences of space and place. Their practice responds to investigations and ideas about how buildings relate to a particular site and how one constructs forms that balance logic with intuition. Their architectural endeavors speak with great subtlety about the importance of the physical and conceptual space that exists between objects, people, and their environment. Elegant and refined, their minimalist constructions pay careful attention to context. Within the museum setting, for example, their work bridges the gap between architecture, fine art, and people by encouraging visitors to experience space through physical movement. They create and integrate multiple paths that traverse and circulate space, allowing viewers to experience their environment through various, shifting perspectives. For Lucky Number Seven, Williams and Tsien have created an exhibition design that embodies the principles of their practice, and SITE Santa Fe is honored to collaborate with them in the creation of their work for the Seventh International Biennial. In their presentation, they will speak about their current projects in the United States, Hong Kong, and India. Co-sponsored by Avalon Trust |
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 6 PM CLASH CLASS: SALVATION SOUND An evening with Nadine Robinson, Treasure Don and DJ DRM Join us for Clash Class: Salvation Sound a collaborative performance event hosted by Biennial artist Nadine Robinson (a.k.a. NayRob), featuring deejay and vocalist Treasure Don and his crew, as they experiment with electronic sound and human movement inspired by the Jamaican sound system. A vanguard approach to music-making, the Jamaican sound system produced the now ubiquitous remix; it served as a blueprint for underground raves and fostered the collaborations between deejays and crews. Robinson considers the Jamaican sound system an important point of departure for her work. This mode of sound production is based on the interactions that occur between "human actors and the mechanical systems of musical amplification, including turntables, audio electronics, and speakers."1 As a group-based musical act, Clash Class reflects Lucky Number Seven’s guiding principles of collaboration, experimentation, ephemerality, and newly commissioned work. Robinson’s work and her performance is a complex anomaly of the secular and the religious through her choice of musical styles which range from roots to rock, and from reggae to Gregorian chants. 1 John Constantinides, The Sound System: Contributions to Jamaica Music and the Montreal Dancehall Scene, 2002 Co-sponsored by Mariquita Masterson |
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 7:30 PM MALANGAN Musical Performance Join us for a collaborative musical event celebrating the 2008 Biennial, built as a disarticulation and recirculation of the images, words, and spaces of the exhibition. John Kennedy, Molly Sturges and Chris Jonas will compose a piece for multiple ensembles placed throughout the installation space, involving members of Santa Fe New Music and other musicians from the area. The performers will be linked using various compositional means to explore the realms of ephemerality, collaboration and process. In certain Oceanic traditions, malangan are funerary effigies or monuments to the dead. Mourners make these assemblages of wood or woven vines and decorate the surface with carvings of animals, birds, shells, and human figures. The perishable monument is placed over a human grave as a marker, then left to decompose, and after the human soul is understood to have left the body, the remains are gathered to fertilize gardens. It is through this metaphor of a ceremony to commemorate the dead that the artists hope to share the transformative powers of decay and revitalization—and in the context of the Biennial—accommodating simultaneous resonances of death and rebirth, of loss and renewal, of closure and new beginnings. Co-sponsored by Box Gallery |
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