The Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) is an emergent arts nonprofit, research center, and publisher opening in October 2022. As a prologue, CARA is pleased to announce Conjurings, three weekends of public programs shaped by scholars, artists, musicians, writers, machines, and multiple forms of intelligences and undefinable disciplines.
Conjurings are an invocation, incantation, un-earthing, questioning, finding ceremony — to body-mindfully open up the space for future (un)doings. We want to fill CARA with voices and practices, to have a foundation in a physical space that involves people’s imprint and not only material infrastructure.
Curator Erika Sprey and artists Lamin Fofana and Sky Hopinka have been working together with Emmy Catedral, Curator of Public Programs, and Manuela Moscoso, Director, permeating our thinking and weaving voices inspired by each of their own practices and research throughout the program and beyond. Out of this process of forging new collaborations and expanding our networks,...we are happy to present an outstanding group of people who will present evolving forms of live and situated experimentings.
Our guiding question is: How do we dream not only about ourselves? That is to say, to dream not only about ourselves, but about each other, about beings of the forest, of water, of animals, buildings, shelter—of concrete or invisible beings as porous interdependent entities reliant on each other and everything around us.
The invited artists consider the potency of dreams, and its possibilities for mobilizing healing, reparation, and somatic social justice. Through attuning to vitality, ecology, sonic lineages, technopoetics, and the many still-unknown capacities of elemental transformation, Conjurings asks how else dreaming might be utilized in focused, materially rooted narratives and pathways for reparation and transcendence.
The three weekend festival is an ongoing program that runs from Friday to Sunday.
Conjuring #1
08 - 10 July 2022
FRIDAY 7pm-11pm
Lamin Fofana, Jace Clayton
SATURDAY 1pm-12pm
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Robin D.G. Kelly, Wanda Phipps, Miatta Kawinzi, JJJJJerome Ellis, ray ferreira, DeForrest Brown, Jr.
SUNDAY 1pm-5pm:
Marilyn Nance, RaFia, Neema Githere, Grandma Baby Apothecary
Conjuring #2
22 – 24 July 2022
FRIDAY 7pm-10pm
Humeysha and friends
SATURDAY 1pm-12pm
Amal Alhaag with Kwame Coleman, Negarra Kudumu, Louis Chude-Sokei, Johann Diedrick, The Otolith Group with Ed Halter, Mahan Moalemi, Fred Moten, Brandon Lopez, Miya Masakoa, and Zeena Parkins, Azikiwe Mohammed/DJ Black Helmet
SUNDAY 1pm-7pm
The Black School, Cy X, Pedro Neves Marques, Amanda Piña
Conjuring #3
05 - 07 August 2022
FRIDAY 7pm- 11pm
Sugar Vendil, Aldrin Valdez, Les The DJ
SATURDAY 1pm -12pm
Social Dreaming Mesh: Erika Sprey and Peter Aers, Lavender Suarez, Emerson Uýra, Charles Theonia, Wo Chan, Nicole Wallace, Maria Hupfield with Electric Djinn, Suzanne Kite and Robbie Wing, Kemi Alabi, Camille Barton and Annika Izora
SUNDAY 1pm-7pm
Social Dreaming Mesh: Erika Sprey and Peter Aers, Cousin Collective, Gavilán Rayna Russom
Installations
Blue CHiLD. & iris yirei hu will produce a commissioned installation in CARA’s main gallery, accompanying the program of performances, talks, and presentations. The second floor will also host an ongoing exhibition rooting the program in legacies of Black, Latinx and Indigenous intellectual frameworks and their many intertwined cultural expressions, with an intergenerational span of works by Amanda Piña, Betty Tchomanga, Emerson Uyra, Grandma Baby Apothecary, June Jordan, Khari-Johnson Ricks, Marilyn Nance, and Sky Hopinka. Presented in the ground floor gallery and CARA bookstore are works by Neema Githere, Juan Alvear, and the late Anishinaabe and Chemehuevi poet Diane Burns.
Entrada actualizada el el 21 jun de 2022
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