COLLECTIVE PRESENCE
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- Awilda Rodríguez Lora, La Mujer Maravilla: INDIA$ m.e. (museum edition), 2016. Performance at the Brooklyn Museum.
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- Joshua Rios, Please Don’t Bury me Alive, still from 2016 solo exhibition and performance made in collaboration with Anthony Romero. Curated by Caroline Picard and Devon King for Sector 2337, Chicago, IL.
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- Rafa Esparza, Reclined: a respite from white expressions
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- Rabéa Ballin, Salt and Pepa, 2015, wax paper transfer and encaustic, 5 x 7 inches.
Collective Presence is a hub for creative and cultural activity to address topics related to social, political, and environmental issues of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Part exhibition, part curatorial concept, and part experiment, this project proposes the exhibition space as a format for a collective call and response to the current trends of futurist and decolonization practices.
Collective Presence brings together multiple perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches to creative leadership and critical inquiry. Through a series of micro-residencies, workshops, and events, creative practitioners have been invited to develop new work on site and in conversation with each other.
MICRO-RESIDENCIES WITH:
Rabéa Ballin (Houston) | March 8 – 17
Joshua Rios (Chicago) | March 9 – 20
Rafa Esparza (Los Angeles) | March 24 – April 8
Awilda Rodríguez Lora (San Juan, PR) | April 8 – 14
PROGRAMS BY:
Raul Orlando Edwards & Reinaldo Costa / Strictly Street Salsa
Lisa E. Harris / Studio Enertia
Laura Napier
Risa Puleo & Rafa Esparza / Brown Artist Retreat: Houston
S Rodriguez & Sara Balabanlilar / Paraspace Books
Monica Villareal
Collective Presence programs will be presented in conjunction with the Latino Art Now! 2019 National Conference on Latino Art, a program of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research and hosted by the University of Houston’s Center for Mexican American Studies and the Smithsonian Latino Center (April 4 – 6, 2019).
DiverseWorks and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts will also co-present a performance by Awilda Rodríguez Lora as part of CounterCurrent19 (April 9-14, 2019).