SITE SANTA FE opens Cassils: Movements and Erika Wanenmacher: what Time Travel feels like, sometimes with food by Marigold Kitchen, drinks by Tumbleroot, and music by Sonny Goodnight aka syunsxyuna.

The opening celebration is free, no advanced registration required.

At 7:30 PM, Dorian Wood will perform La nada que te ama in the auditorium. Spanish for "The nothing that loves you", the performance is a channeling of ancestral/transcestral energy via the artist's voice and body, interwoven with sounds and imagery that ponder a broken future of/against our making. This ritual-based performance forges a path between sensuality and grief, inviting those present to consider a radicalism of the self—a divine embracing of lust and solitude.

This performance is presented in conjunction with the opening celebration for SITE SANTA FE’s latest exhibitions—Erika Wanenmacher’s what Time Travel feels like, sometimes and Cassils’s Movements, and is co-coordinated with Noise For Now. 

Join SITE SANTA FE Membership to reserve a seat for free here. Free general admission seating and standing room assigned on a first-come-first-served basis.

Dorian Wood (she/they) is anti-disciplinary and based in the U.S. Her intent of “infecting” spaces and ideologies with her creative practice is born from a desire to challenge traditions and systems that have contributed to the marginalization of people. Her work has been showcased in concert halls and performance spaces around the world, including at The Broad (Los Angeles), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid), and Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris (Mexico City), among others. In 2019–20, she completed several successful tours through Europe, Mexico, and the U.S. with her chamber-orchestra tribute to Chavela Vargas, XAVELA LUX AETERNA. Wood is a recipient of a Creative Capital Award, a NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant, a COLA Individual Master Artist Project Grant, an LA County Performing Arts Recovery Grant, and an Art Matters Foundation Grant. In 2023, Wood premiered Canto de Todes, a touring twelve-hour chamber composition and installation that emphasizes the urgency of folk music as a conduit for social change. She has also released over a dozen recordings, most recently the albums You are clearly in perversion (Astral Editions, 2023), in collaboration with Thor Harris; and Excesiva (Dragon's Eye Recordings, 2023).

Sonny Goodnight aka “syunsxyuna” is a Beatmaker and DJ from Taos pueblo. Growing up in a melting pot of Latin and Native cultures, as well as playing samba songs on the guitar, played a significant role in his research on musical genres including Amapiano, Afrobeat, Brazilian Funk/ baile funk, Latin, Trap, House, Hip hop, chill baile, neo baile soul, Classicos Samba, cumbia, chicha, salsa, and more.