Extract from Carolina Caycedo, Serpent River Book, 2017, Artist book. © Carolina Caycedo. Courtesy of the artist
Bound Ecologies: In Dialogue with Carolina Caycedo
Saturday, May 11, 2024, from 4 pm - 6:30 pm
Museum Lecture Hall & Central Garden
Free | Advance ticket required
Join us for this two-part event celebrating the work of Getty Artist-in-Residence Carolina Caycedo. The program will begin in the Central Garden with a participatory performance by Caycedo and Los Angeles-based movement artist Isis Avalos using Caycedo's Serpent River Book #1 (2017), a vast and meandering collage that explores the effects of industrialization and extractivism on river systems, water resources, and communities. Following the performance, Caycedo will be joined by Joseph Valencia, curator at the Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM), for a lively dialogue about her work on the Serpent River Book series and upcoming exhibition We Place Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el centro (opening fall 2024 at VPAM).
Afterward, event attendees are invited to a sunset reception with the artists and speakers in the garden.
Carolina Caycedo is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist born in London and living in Los Angeles. Her immense geographic photographs, lively artist's
books, hanging sculptures, performances, films, and installations are not merely art objects but gateways into larger discussions about how we treat each other and the world around us. During her residency at the Getty Research Institute, Caycedo has worked on the second volume of the Serpent River Book series, which will explore how eco-social transition is being embodied by frontline communities in the Americas, presenting case studies woven together using eco-feminist and environmental justice frameworks.
Joseph D. Valencia is curator at the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College. A scholar and writer of US Latinx art and the art and politics of the Americas, he is currently co-organizing We Place Life at the Center (2024–2025), an exhibition, publication, and educational platform focused on art and environmental justice as part of PST ART: Art and Science Collide. This exhibition builds upon Caycedo's work challenging traditional Western notions of art and science while nurturing collaborations and networks of solidarity with artists, community scientists, and environmental leaders throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Isis Avalos-Perez is a mother and bordercrosser dance artist from South Texas, based in Los Angeles. Avalos received her Bachelor's in Fine Arts from the University of North Texas. For seven years, she toured nationally and internationally as a teaching/performing dance artist with CONTRA-TIEMPO. She has been featured in National Geographic and ACLU Magazine, and most recently she has been a guest artist at UC Riverside and UC Santa Barbara. She is currently adjunct professor of Latin Social Dance at Los Angeles Valley College.
The conversation will be available on the Getty Research Institute YouTube channel following the event.
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