Visual research
Agusto Boal
Anna Halprin
Linda Mary Montano
Luke Dixon
Life drawing of NICOLÁS DUMIT ESTÉVEZ RAFUL ESPEJO OVALLES
ON DECENTERING ART AS AN INDIVIDUAL ENDEAVOR
NICOLÁS DUMIT ESTÉVEZ RAFUL ESPEJO OVALLES
NICOLÁS DUMIT ESTÉVEZ RAFUL ESPEJO OVALLES
OUR TIME TOGETHER PERFORMING. an experiential workshop.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo ovalles treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively through creative experiences that he unfolds within the quotidian. He has exhibited or performed at Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05/07, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, Pontevedra Biennial, Call/Walks, Queens Museum, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, Princeton University, Anthology Film Archives, El Museo del Barrio, Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery/BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
University of Austin at Texas.
Krensky, Beth. Between Spirit and Matter: Works by Beth Krensky. Yale Institute of Sacred Music. New Haven. CT. 2022
Beth Krensky Between Spirit and Matter is an installation of performance pieces and ritual artifacts. Krensky makes a space between the spirit and matter to offer us a form of love, liberation, courage, and kindness. Her works are rich with meaning, and they welcome participation in order to create a kind of creating sanctuary.
Maddie Blonquist Shrum writes in her introduction to the catalogue:
As a curator, my deepest desire is to create experiences that change people. Of course,
However, Beth and I share a common belief,
articulated beautifully in the words of Gloria
Anzaldua: “I change myself, I change the world.”
Maddie Blonquist Shrum. Curator.
Yale Divinity School & the Institute of Sacred Music.
Blonquist Shrum quotes the work of chicana, feminist Gloria Anzaldúa. Her most interesting work is La Frontera, La Nueva Mestiza. In this work she details her autobiographical life growing up in the Texas-Mexico border as marginalized, mixed race, mestiza woman. For Anzaldúa the transformation of the self/world involves bridging/transcending/healing. This many forms of dualisms are ingrained in our personal psyche and our view and perception of the global village.
She also developed theories about the marginal, in-between, and mixed cultures that developed along the USA-Mexico borders. For example the concepts of Nepantla, Coyoxaulqui imperative, new tribalism, and spiritual activism.
Maeera Y. Shreiber is a professor at Yale Divinity School & the Institute of Sacred Music. She writes an essay about Beth Krensky's work. Using Jewish divinity history she talks about how God ordered the first temple to be made by Bezalel. Using this as a metaphor to the act of creation is something inherited from God. She makes a correlation between these act of making something with Beth Krensky's objects, and performances.
She describes the performance with a chair she carries on her back, as away to interpret a life journey into the unknown. Carrying personal knowledge to travel with sanctuaries, reliquaries and objects that Krensky uses as holding spiritual power.
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Science of Well Being and Social Justice.
Social Justice is biopsychsocial and a spiritual phenomena. This concept was developed 20 yers ago by Dr. Sara King.
Dr. Sará King is the founder of MindHeart Consulting. She practices and developed clinical and field-based research on how contemplative practices in social justice are helpful to organizations and different social environments.