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We the People
On July 20, Montalvo hosted "We the People," a communal gathering featuring poetry, performance, soundworks, installation art, and participatory engagement activities. Audiences joined poets, musicians, and visual and sound artists from across the globe as we collectively considered: How can we expand our understanding of “we” and imagine new, more inclusive ways of being together? Read More >> |
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Marilá Dardot: Saudade (Our Flags) In her first exhibition in the United States, Brazilian artist Marilá Dardot premiered a large-scale installation of flags created by immigrant and refugee community participants during a series of public workshops. The flags, which represent in text or visual form something their maker misses about the country where they were born, were raised on Montalvo’s grounds on Sunday, July 15 at a communal flag-raising ceremony. With this work, Dardot seeks to amplify the voices of our varied diaspora communities and honor the complexities and challenges of their experience in the midst of a divisive national conversation about immigrants and the nature of American identity. Read More >> |
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Howard Hersh: Four Bridges Four Bridges is a site-specific sound work by award-winning composer Howard Hersh designed to be heard by listeners over mobile devices as they walk through Montalvo’s woodland environment. The work coordinates space, sound, and motion into a unique immersive ambulatory experience: as listeners follow a meandering woodland path on Montalvo’s grounds, they are taken on a sonic odyssey that leads them through redwood canyons into oak-lined meadows. Four Bridges’ narrative is inspired by our primal memories of the forest and the mythology that depicts it as an enchanted, mysterious place. It also explores the woods as a metaphor for our common journey and what it means to carry the burden and promises of a shared humanity. Read More >> |
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María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Imole Blue II (Field of Memories) One of the most significant artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba, María Magdalena Campos-Pons created a garden for Montalvo’s grounds with participation from the community. Taking inspiration from an aerial photograph of a Soviet medium-range ballistic missile installation taken by a US Air force plane during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, this garden is part peace memorial and part living sketch. Campos-Pons is interested in the uneasy juxtaposition of the visual beauty of the photograph upon which she based her garden plan--which looks like blooming flowers set inside a hexagram shape--and the horror and destructive capability that the image belies. Imole means "earth" in the Yoruba language. The garden was planted with the help of community participants on Sunday, July 15. Read More >> |
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RADIO Espacio Estacion (RADIOEE.NET)
This spring RADIO Espacio Estacion (RADIOEE.NET), a mobile, multilingual, online radio channel broadcasting conversations about mobility and movement while on the move, joined us at the Lucas Artists Program and began work on developing a new 24-hr broadcast exploring self-driving vehicle technology and other automated mobilities while on the move. This broadcast commissioned by Lucas Artists Program at Montalvo Arts Center will premier on November 15 2018 and will be presented as part of New Terrains: Mobility + Migration, a multi-disciplinary, community-wide initiative launched by the San José Museum of Art (SJMA). Read More >> |
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Don't Look Away
On February 23 2018, Montalvo’s Carriage House Theatre was the venue for an inspiring evening of poetry and performance featuring Lucas Artists Literary Fellows Danez Smith, Monica Sok, and Julian Talamantez-Brolaski, and two-time Grammy winning musician and co-founding member of the genre-busting rock band Living Colour, Will Calhoun. Read More >> |
