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Óscar Moreno Escárraga and Andrea Frank: Performative Action by and with Óscar Moreno Escárraga
Tuesday 3/25, 1-3pm, Glasshouse Project
Spaces of encounter between art, community, and territory an emergent collaboration between communities in Bogota, Colombia and the Hudson Valley, NY
The context for this co-creative process is a shared desire to create bridges across divides--between South and North, Indigenous and Western, young and old--, and to engage in deeper listening to and connecting with each other and the land. We will engage relational objects, photography, video, and poetry in our creative processes in collaboration with communities in New Paltz and Bogota, and our students. This emergent experiment will take shape through exhibitions, performances, talking circles, and other engagements. This collaboration was conceived and organized by artists and educators
Óscar Moreno Escárraga will engage with a Relational Object on site while connecting with his students in Bogota remotely. This is an opportunity to get to know about the project.
Óscar Moreno Escárraga, PhD is an artist, educator and cultural researcher, interested in the sensory body, ancestral cosmogonies and social poetics. Óscar Moreno Escárraga investigates various forms of writing (testimonial, fictional), drawings and audiovisual records, relational objects and rituals of self-knowledge. He is a Professor in Arts and Photography at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (Bogotá D.C.), where he directs the Observatory of Social Poetics.
Andrea Frank embraces collaborative embodied processes as creative tool toward an emergent regenerative culture, and she explores complexity and collective resonances through photography and related media. She holds creative collaborative System Drawing sessions and think tanks and exhibits her artwork internationally. She is an Associate Professor and head of the Photography Program at SUNY New Paltz, NY and a core collaborator ofEddy at New Paltz. website: www.andreafrank.net