Saturday, December 10, 2022 - 7:00am
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During her residency at Atelier Calder, Beatriz Cortez has imagined a speculative version of the Ilopango Volcano. The eruption of the Ilopango Volcano spread ashes or tierra blanca joven all over the planet in the year 536. The particles of this sacred land carry spiritual meaning to people who also migrated (and continue to migrate) from the Central American region to other territories.
Built in steel and still a work in progress, the work is imagined on the landscape in Saché, France, the location of Atelier Calder. This work in progress was commissioned by the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It has also been made possible thanks to the support of several other institutions: Atelier Calder; the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics at the New School; the Department of Central American and Transborder Studies at California State University, Northridge; and Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles.
Beatriz Cortez is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores simultaneity, different temporalities, the untimely, and speculative imaginaries of the future.