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Scratch Space: Synthetic Life On September 23, 2021, we were joined by independent artistic research studio, Interspecifics as they discussed their latest work Codex Virtualis, an evolving collection of virtual hybrid bacterial-AI organisms designed to provide insights into how life might originate in extraterrestrial habitats. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: Foraging for a Future How do we reclaim our natural place in the world? On May 20, 2021, we were joined by chef and journalist Andrea Blum with artist Kija Lucas for a conversation about their work on a new cookbook project about foraging and sustainable food practices. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: When we Gather On May 6, 2021, we were joined by interdisciplinary artist and educator María Magdalena Campos-Pons for a conversation about her work and latest projects. We’ll discuss the artist's trans-institutional platform "Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice" and latest project When We Gather, Campos-Pons’ multifaceted collaborative undertaking and five-minute film that premiered in 2021 and celebrates the role of women in ushering in sweeping political change and progress across the United States. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: Digging Down Into Our Planetary Futures On April 22, 2021, we were joined by Xin Liu, a conceptual artist and curator; Rachel Obbard a senior scientist at the SETI Institute and Adjunct Associate Professor at Dartmouth College; and Bettina Forget, Program Director for the SETI Institute’s Artist in Residency Program where we discussed what astrobiology can tell us about life here and on other planets and how we navigate our sustainability crisis. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: The Thirty Names of Night On April 8, 2021, we were joined by Zeyn Joukhadar and writer and residency director Lori Wood where they discussed Joukhadar’s latest novel, The Thirty Names of Night, a moving and lyrical story following three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: Grammar of Grief On March 18, 2021 we were joined by visual artist Indira Allegra and curator Erin Christovale where they discussed quiet and interiority as spaces for discovery and open-ended imagining. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: Pedagogical Experimentation & Mutual Aid On March 4, 2021 we were joined by artists and educators Jennifer Parker and Kim Yasuda as they discussed the importance of pedagogical experimentation and collaborative learning; as well as ongoing projects that empower interdisciplinary thinking and activate the intersection between institutional knowledge production and creative practice. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: ¿estamos bien? On February 25, 2021 we were joined by interdisciplinary artist Edra Soto and curator Susanna V. Temkin as they discuss Soto’s latest installation Graft presented at el Museo del Barrio as part of the ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21, the museum’s first national large-scale survey of Latinx contemporary art featuring more than 40 artists from across the United States and Puerto Rico. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: Adapting History On February 11, 2021 we were joined by Dahlak Brathwaite as he shared the journey of developing the theatrical work, Adapting History, into a film during the pandemic. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: Access is Love On January 28, 2021, we sat down with disabled activist, media maker, and consultant Alice Wong and visual artists Jason Lazarus and Siebren Versteeg where we explored tactics for making protest accessible to all and giving voice and visibility to communities at the margins. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: Rethinking Artificial Intelligence On January 21, 2021, we had a conversation with transmedia artist and scholar Stephanie Dinkins and digital media theorist and artist Jason Edward Lewis where we explored how to imagine a future with A.I. that contributes to the flourishing of all humans and non-humans. Watch Here >> |
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Virtual Artventure: Studio Visit with James Gouldthorpe Join us for an intimate virtual visit with visual artist and painter James Gouldthorpe. View and discuss the brand new body of work created by Gouldthorpe during these past eight months of shelter in place, and the new Corona-Virus reality we share. The Covid Artifacts 2020 series of paintings has been a daily practice for Gouldthorpe, beginning after he arrived home from his first visit to the grocery store, and the ensuing efforts of tirelessly wiping down each purchased item, to rid it of any potential contamination. In the words of the artist, “…I began to consider our new world. What previous innocuous objects have suddenly become heavy with Corona baggage...” Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: How can we keep our hearts open? On November 19, 2020, we sat down with visual artists Leah Rosenberg and Christine Wong Yap to discuss their shared interest in psychological wellbeing at a time of great social anxiety and discord. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: The Dilate Ensemble Presents "On Memory II: Scaling the Palace" On November 12, 2020, we held a live streamed audio visual performance by the artist collective the Dilate Ensemble, featuring LAP Fellows Carole Kim and Scott L. Miller. The performance was followed by a discussion about the importance of creating shared imaginative and collaborative spaces, how memories can interweave within a collective dream-space, and what we will remember about living through 2020. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: Reinventing Ritual On October 29, 2020, we were joined by artists Hector Dionicio Mendoza, Amalia Mesa Bains, Viviana Paredes, and Pilar Agüero-Esparza as they discussed their shared interest in ritual, memory and tradition. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: Weeping Mary On October 22, 2020, we were joined by moving image artist Lisa Crafts, composer and performer Matt Petty, and playwright Alva Rogers to discuss their collaboration on Weeping Mary. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: Reimagining Border(ed) Lands On October 15, 2020, we were joined by visual artist Maria Hupfield and poet Natalie Diaz as they reimagined our border(ed) lands as fluid, and returned to the practice of migration as a natural relationship with language, story, land, water, and one another. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: Investigating Whiteness On October 8, 2020, we were joined by artist, educator, and mediator, Dorit Cypis; artist and scholar Janet Owen Driggs; and artist and justice reform advocate Gregory Sale where we discussed and reflected on whiteness in this moment of racial reckoning. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: The Possible Impossible On October 1, 2020, we were joined by artist, musician, and writer Lex Brown and performance artist, comedian, and writer Kristina Wong for a wide-ranging conversation on dismantling internalized and external racism and sexism through art and humor. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: Afterglow On September 24, 2020, we were joined by Delhi-based artistic trio Raqs Media Collective discuss their vision for the Yokohama Triennale, one of the first major art events to take place after a flood of cancellations due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: AntigoneNOW On September 17, 2020, we were joined by multi-disciplinary performing artist Margaret Laurena Kemp where she discussed her recent work during lockdown, and introduced a virtual screening of AntigoneNOW, a contemporary response to the classical play she co-directed, which was rehearsed and created collectively online between the USA, Singapore, Japan and the UK using mobile phones, IPad and video. Watch Here >> |
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Scratch Space: The Appearance of Black Lives Matter On September 10, 2020, we were joined by activist and scholar Nicholas Mirzoeff, visual artist Carl Pope, and poet Karen Pope to discuss their collaborative work and revisit their 2018 publication The Appearance of Black Lives Matter from the perspective of our current moment of racial reckoning. Watch Here >> |
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Open Access: Follow up on F.U.N. On August 13, 2020, our residency director Kelly Sicat was joined by vocalist, activist, and LAP Guest Fellow Jennifer Johns to discuss self-care, joy, vision, interdependence and freedom, and the evolution of her "Free U Now Manifesto." Watch Here >> |
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lone some conversations: Meeting Where We Are On August 6, 2020, lone some participant Alyson Provax was joined by Christina Amini, steward of the Susan O’Malley estate and longtime collaborator of the artist, to discuss text based art in public space and meeting the people where they are. Watch Here >> |
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lone some conversations: How much of sight is invention? On July 30, 2020, lone some participant Chloë Bass was joined by photographer Jules Allen to discuss the power of image construction for public presentation and the secrets they hold. Watch Here >> |
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lone some conversations: What's goin' on? On July 23, lone some participant Modesto Covarrubias was joined by Chris Evans, Ernest Jolly, and Constance Lewis to discuss their practice, their projects, and coping in times of isolation, cultural shifts, and social pivot. Watch Here >> |
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lone some conversations: Island On July 16, 2020, lone some participant Jane Chang Mi was joined by artist Ulrik Lopez to discuss isolation, sustainability, colonization, and islands of the ocean in the second installment of our lone some conversation series. Watch Here >> |
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lone some conversations: Poetry of Connection On July 1, 2020, Leena Joshi, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta joined us for an hour of poetry reading and conversation around themes of loneliness, isolation, and connection in today's world in our first installment of our lone some conversation series. Watch Here >> |
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Open Access: What's Next for Earth? Join Montalvo Arts Center and Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) as we honor the work of artists in celebrating the earth on this 50th anniversary of Earth Day. This conversation is co-organized with eco artist and arts educator Michele Guieu, and will feature a presentation on the complex human predicament by one of the world’s leading environmentalist, Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies and President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. Artists Ivan Sigg, Shannon Amidon, and Kija Lucas will share works that honor our interconnectedness with each other and the environment. Guieu will also introduce participants to the Open Global Community Art Project, a new platform for creators as we consider: What’s Next for Earth? Watch Here >> |
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Bruce Munro in Conversation with LAP Director Kelly Sicat Bruce Munro discusses his artistic practice and the development of his latest exhibition Stories in Light with Kelly Sicat, Director of the Lucas Artists Program. The conversation explores the artist's ongoing creative process as he envisions works of art and site-based installations that bring people together in a shared experience. Watch Here >> |
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2018 Art on the Grounds: We the People This July 20th, we were joined by poets, musicians, and visual and sound artists from across the globe as we collectively consider: How can we expand our understanding of “we” and imagine new, more inclusive ways of being together? This communal gathering on Montalvo’s grounds featured poetry, performance, sound works, installation art, and participatory engagement activities. See clips from the various performances of the evening in the video below by videographers ShakaJamal and Sompong Viengvilai. Watch Here >> |
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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, Saudade (Our 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. View the flag-raising ceremony for Saudade (Our Flags) in this video from videographer Brandon Hanson. Watch Here >> |
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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, Imole Blue II (Field of Memories), 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. View the creation of the peace garden in this video from videographer Brandon Hanson. Watch Here >> |
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Howard Hersh: Four Bridges Experience award-winning composer Howard Hersh’s new site specific composition Four Bridges with this new video work—the result of a collaboration between Hersh and videographer Brandon Hanson. Originally designed to be heard by listeners over mobile devices as they walk through Montalvo’s woodland environment, Four Bridges 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. With this video work you can explore and experience Four Bridges remotely from the comfort of your home computer! Watch Here >> |
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Alva Rogers and The Uses of Enchantment Playwright, performer and composer Alva Rogers is deeply versed in the uses of enchantment, drawing inspiration for her plays from the Surrealist painters and magic realist writers. Rogers has been called “a visionary playwright whose rich poetic language and kaleidoscopic theatrical aesthetic challenges audiences to reexamine their understanding of what theatre can be and do.” Meet Alva Rogers in her studio at the Lucas Artists Program in this new video. Read More >> |
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NOW HEAR THIS! An Exercise in Listening: One Voice (Yek Seda) In the summer of 2017, in association with Montalvo Art Center’s outdoor exhibition NOW HEAR THIS! An Exercise in Listening, artist Taraneh Hemami invited Lucas Artists Fellows and guest artists to interact with her newly commissioned sound sculpture, One Voice (Yek Seda) and create and share new sound works that respond to its themes. This video documents two public programs that took place in August and September 2017 in Montalvo’s Italianate Garden. Read More >> |
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Performances at NOW HEAR THIS! An Exercise in Listening One of the most exciting aspects of bringing artists from different disciplines together at the Lucas Artists Program is observing how, hunkered down and deep in conversation around the table, a kind of alchemy can take place: ideas cross pollinate and plans for collective experimentation emerge. On Friday August 25, 2017, we gathered for a public program in Montalvo’s Italianate Garden in association with Montalvo’s latest outdoor exhibition NOW HEAR THIS! An Exercise in Listening. Read More >> |
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NOW HEAR THIS! Opening Festival at Montalvo How can we listen more deeply to one another and the world around us? On July 21 we invited emerging filmmaker Sam Gouldthorpe to document the opening celebration of NOW HEAR THIS! An Exercise in Listening. This video features short interviews with the six artists who created new works for exhibition, as well as footage of the various temporary events and performances that occurred during the opening evening. These included a tribute to postwar composer Pauline Oliveros and her practice of deep listening. Read More >> |
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5 Hour Sculpture: The Assailed/The Assailable By Jason Lazarus This new film by Sam Gouldthorpe documents Lucas Artists Fellow Jason Lazarus’s project The Assailed/The Assailable, which he organized as part of Montalvo Art Center’s 5 Hour Sculpture outdoor exhibition this past July. Lazarus invited visitors to think of a person in their everyday life, who in the context of the upcoming election, they are worried about being left behind. He asked them to choose a symbol or text to represent this person and to add it to the interior of a structure that was inflated at the end of the evening. Read More >> |
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From the Full to the Void: A Trailer On Saturday, September 24, 2016, Icelandic band Sigur Rós takes the stage at the Hollywood Bowl for the first time in over a decade. Opening for them will be Lucas Artist Fellow Nelly Ben Hayoun's International Space Orchestra! Watch this fascinating video preview for the event, directed by Hayoun and featuring music by Sigur Rós. Watch Here >> |
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Particles: A Video Portrait Last month, emerging filmmaker Sam Gouldthorpe joined his father, Lucas Artists Program Fellow James Gouldthorpe, to document the creation of Particles: A Painting in Ten Chapters. This video portrait movingly brings father and son’s creative practices together in a shared exploration of artistic experimentation, familial ties, and the passing of time. Read More >> |
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To Adapt is to be Human: Dahlak Brathwaite's Adapting History On February 9, 2016, we welcomed over six hundred middle school students to Montalvo Arts Center’s Carriage House Theatre for the premiere of Lucas Artist Fellow Dahlak Brathwaite’s newest performance work, Adapting History—created in collaboration with and commissioned by Montalvo’s Education Department as part of their Performing Art Series for Students. Read More >> |
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"Buzzing, Humming, Soaring": Everything that Happens In 2013 the Lucas Artists Program commissioned the premier of a choral performance work, Everything that Happens, created Lucas Artist Fellow Nene Humphrey and her collaborator composer Roberto C. Lange, and performed by the Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley under the artistic direction of Elena Sharkova. Watch Here >> |
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A Ramble with Fieldworks Fieldworks Collaborative was founded in 2012 by Trena Noval and Ann Wettrich to invent new approaches to creative inquiry and collaborative systems that explore the world we live in. Informed by place, we are interested in stimulating curiosity by creating inclusive, interdisciplinary, and multidimensional experiences. Watch Here >> |
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Monica Lundy: Portrait of an Oak Tree The botanical theme of Lundy’s newest body of work, created while she was a Fellow at the Lucas Artists Program, seems at first glance to be a radical departure for the artist. Indeed, the artist has talked at length about how exchanging her normal studio space in urban Oakland for the natural setting of Montalvo served as a creative stimulus. Watch Here >> |
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Michael Hall: A Video Profile by Tina Case Hall's new body of work, entitled Correspondence, is inspired by his rediscovery of a cache of letters his father had written to him while deployed in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. The experience of rereading these letters twenty years after he first received them began to inform a new series of paintings, drawings, and videos based on the letters and cultural signifiers from the period. Watch Here >> |
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Hirokazu Kosaka: KALPA Los Angeles-based artist Hirokazu Kosaka presented his sculptural and performative installation KALPA as the climactic centerpiece of Performance in the Park. The work, which featured Butoh master dancer Oguri and acclaimed harmonica player Tetsuya Nakamura, was staged across Montalvo's Great Lawn and eerily illuminated by an enormous military search light from the 1940s. Watch Here >> |
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NAKA Dance Theater: Found and Lost NAKA Dance Theater co-directors Debby Kajiyama and José Navarrete, along with multi-instrumentalist Adria Otte, restaged an excerpt from their acclaimed performance work BAILOUT! The piece was conceived in response to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, and considered how humanity copes in the face of catastrophic environmental disasters. Watch Here >> |
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Joanna Haigood & Zaccho Dance Theatre: The Visitors Montalvo Arts Center’s 2015 performance festival featured the premiere of a new site-specific performance by acclaimed choreographer and artistic director of Zaccho Dance Theatre, Joanna Haigood. The performance featured acrobatic aerial performer Zoe Klein, performing artist Clare Whistler, and dancer Adonis Damian Martin Quinones. Watch Here >> |
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Nikki Borodi, Glenn Easley, and Nehara Kalev: Whisper Before Last The forest as a space of enchantment was the theme of a site-specific performance directed by Nehara Kalev and performed by Kalev, Nikki Borodi and Glenn Easley. The performers rappelled from trees in the Linden Grove and moved gracefully through space both on and off the ground. Watch Here >> |
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Pamela Z: Voice Garden Sonic Pool Acclaimed San Francisco-based composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z premiered a new site-specific performance, Voice Garden Sonic Pool in Montalvo's Oval Garden. She filled the space with layers of sound using her live voice, processed in real time and manipulated with gestural movement. Watch Here >> |
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Art on the Grounds 2015: Performance in the Park In July 2015, the Lucas Artists Program organized a large-scale performance festival on Montalvo's grounds featuring many new site-specific performances by Lucas Artists Fellows. The event, culminated with Japanese-born and LA-based artist Hirokazu Kosaka's breathtaking performance KALPA, featuring Butoh master dancer Oguri and acclaimed harmonica player Tetsuya Nakamura. The event was presented as part of a year-long celebration of the 75/10 anniversary of Montalvo's artists residency program. Watch Here >> |
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Ava Roy And Nathaniel Justiniano: A Video Profile While in residence this summer, Ava and Nathaniel worked to develop the production HEROMONSTER, a new work of intensely physical theater inspired by the epic poem Beowulf. Here, they take a moment to sit down with Tina Case to discuss their work, their creative process, and the satisfaction they have gained from their time at Montalvo. Watch Here >> |
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Botanica Poetica: Hector Mendoza & White Wilderness On Friday, September 25, we open a new exhibition in our Project Space Gallery: Botanica Poetica, which showcases new work by Lucas Artist Fellows inspired by the varied and diverse plant life found in Montalvo Arts Center’s 175-acre public park. Among the featured artists is Mexico-born Hector Dionicio Mendoza, currently based in Monterey, California. Watch Here >> |
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Imin Yeh: A Video Profile Imin Yeh is an interdisciplinary project-based artist living in San Francisco. She graduated from the M.F.A program at California College of the Arts in 2009. An active participant in the Bay Area art scene, she has shown her work at the San Jose Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Contemporary Jewish Museum, and Headlands Center for the Arts, among other venues. Watch Here >> |
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Happiness Is...A Conversation Join Happiness is… artists Susan O’Malley, Leah Rosenberg, and Christine Wong Yap, and Carole Pertofsky, Director of Wellness and Health Promotion Services at Vaden Health Center at Stanford University, for a conversation about the pursuit of happiness. Watch Here >> |
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Tiffany Singh: The Bells of Mindfulness This video by San Jose State University Production Society documents the evolution and presentation of Tiffany Singh's The Bells of Mindfulness at Montalvo Arts Center. Watch Here >> |
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Nina Waisman discusses "9 evenings" Montalvo artist-in-residence Nina Waisman will present an evening of dance, movement, and interactive sound work as part of a series of performances entitled "9 evenings" arranged as part of the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial. Watch Here >> |
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"Asalto" (2009) by Daniel Canogar Projection of Asalto by Daniel Canogar on the Alcázar (or royal palace) of Seville in 2009. This video gives a great view of both the green screen participation and the projection of the piece. Watch Here >> |
