“Thanks for Hosting Us, We are Healing Our Broken Bodies,” 2019, HD video. Photo by Bobby Gordon.
Sunday, November 3, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Event location:
2220 Arts + Archives
2220 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90057
Join us for a special film program held off-site at 2220 Arts + Archives. The Lives of Rivers showcases Carolina Caycedo’s film and video work, emphasizing the artist’s commitment to promoting the teachings of reciprocity with nature and personifying rivers, watersheds, plants, and other non-human beings as political agents.
In her video work, Caycedo utilizes varying modes – documentary, dance, visual effects, observational, poetic, meditative -- to explore the milieu, the losses, and the possible re-births, of waterways in the Americas. The films contrast the lifestyles of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in their understanding of the uses of and debts owed to the rivers that give us life. These beautiful films express indigenous beliefs while reckoning with modernity, using the visual technology of today in common cause with activists and stakeholders seeking to restore our rivers and by extension, ourselves.
A post-screening conversation and Q&A will follow featuring Caycedo and Lisa Blackmore, founder and director of entre—ríos.
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Carolina Caycedo is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her practice and research focus on the future of our shared resources, ecosocial transition, and bio-cultural diversity. Her art installations, performances, videos, sculptures, and artist’s books examine social and environmental issues and contribute to the construction of environmental and historical memory. She has exhibited internationally and has developed publicly engaged projects in Los Angeles, Mexico City, Bogotá, San Juan, New York, London, and Paris, among others. Caycedo received a 2023 Soros Arts Fellowship and was the 2023-2024 Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute.
Lisa Blackmore is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex. She is the founder-director of entre—ríos, a confluence of arts-led projects exploring continuities between bodies of water, human bodies, and territories, and recognizing rivers as active subjects that produce aesthetic forms, transform landscapes and shape memory. Lisa is currently a Visiting Fellow at UC Berkeley, where she is writing a book on water, art and infrastructure in Latin America. Her recent publications include Hydrcommons Cultures: Art, Pedagogy and Care Practices across the Americas (2024, edited with Alejandro Ponce de León).
The Lives of Rivers is curated by Adam Hyman. The program is organized by Los Angeles Filmforum and the Vincent Price Art Museum as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide. It is presented as part of Experimentations: Imag(In)ing Knowledge in Film (LA Filmforum) and We Place Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el centro (VPAM).