SOMATIC CHOREOGRAPHIES
System Drawing with Óscar Moreno Escárraga + Andrea Frank
Saturday 3/29, 3-5 pm, Glasshouse Project
We will collectively engage in System Drawing processes to explore relations and potentials at this critical time.
Saturday 3/25, 3- 5pm, 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.
About Relational Objects: Every movement in a work of art is a movement in the subjectivity of the artist. Is it possible to be a body in continuous vibration, in becoming, in which changes, transformations, and mutations germinate? Is it possible to assume that both the earthly and the cosmic live in that body? One would have to dare to be a body before that abyss of the real - traces, ghosts, scars, emancipations, advents, not homogeneous, not a spectacle. According to Lygia Clark, a Relational Object is precarious and sacred at the same time, it is handcrafted from ordinary materials, it is made from the sensory body. The elaborated object occurs through action, through the living gestures of the body, allowing emotional and imaginative expression.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