GOING WITH THE FLOW: ART, ACTIONS, AND WESTERN WATERS
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15 APR 2023 / 01 AUG 2023
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GOING WITH THE FLOW: ART, ACTIONS, AND WESTERN WATERS is a group exhibition exploring the vital role of water in the arid Southwest. No other element is more crucial to life on Earth, and as the title of this exhibition suggests, we must follow its lead and heed its warnings. Water, like art, takes many forms: it changes and flows in reaction to its environment; it finds ways to keep moving, recovering, and recharging above and below the land. As stewards of this land, we can benefit from the example water sets by emulating its adaptability. By doing so, we might discover new paths of understanding and repair as we navigate the challenges of climate change.
Exhibiting artists Paula Castillo, Basia Irland, Sharon Stewart, collaborators on There Must Be Other Names for the River (Marisa DeMarco, Dylan McLaughlin, Jessica Zeglin), and collective M12Studio (Richard Saxton, Margo Handwerker, Trent Segura) present multidisciplinary projects both inside and outside SITE SANTA FE, including temporary site-specific artworks, sound, installation, performance, and momentary actions that engage the communities of Santa Fe and its surrounding regions.
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Support for GOING WITH THE FLOW: ART, ACTIONS, AND WESTERN WATERS is generously provided by
The National Endowment for the Arts
SITE SANTA FE Board of Directors
SITE SANTA FE Annual Exhibition Fund
Paula Castillo
Paula Castillo is a Latinx artist based in her hometown of Belén, NM. Castillo attended Yale University and then worked in an electronics factory, whe...Basia Irland
Fulbright Scholar, Basia Irland, is an artist, author, and activist who creates international large-scale community-based water projects featured in h...M12 Studio
M12 Studio is a small artist-constructed studio and non-profit organization committed to amplifying the aesthetics of rural cultures and landscapes. M...Sharon Stewart
Born in Edinburg, Texas, on the South Texas borderlands with Mexico, educated in finance and economics at the University of Texas and Harvard Universi...Marisa Demarco
Marisa Demarco surfaces and interrogates contemporary truths through performance, worn sculpture, installation, sound composition and journalism. She’...Dylan McLaughlin
Dylan McLaughlin is a multidisciplinary artist looking critically to ecologies of extraction and threatened ecosystems. He weaves Diné mythology, ecol...Jessica Zeglin
Jessica Zeglin’s work centers on knotty particulars of intersections between human and ecological social systems, emphasizing listening and awareness ...
Brandee Caoba
Since joining SITE SANTA FE’s curatorial team in 2015, she has organized an extensive and varied run of exhibitions, working with national and interna...
Lucy R. Lippard
Lucy R. Lippard is a writer, activist, sometime curator, author of 25 books on contemporary art and cultural criticism, including