Beginning in the summer of 2020, the School of Advanced Research (SAR), in collaboration SITE Santa Fe and Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe (CCA), presents Beyond Borders, a series of installations and events starting with Hostile Terrain 94, a participatory art project and exhibition intended to call attention to the realities of migration and border policy in our hemisphere.
To learn more about the full run of Beyond Borders programming, visit https://sarweb.org/beyond-borders-2020/
Beyond Borders makes its groundbreaking global debut on July 17, 2020, with a virtual opening of Hostile Terrain 94, a participatory art project and exhibition organized and sponsored by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), which is directed by anthropologist and former SAR resident scholar Jason De León. The opening will include an online introduction, virtual tour of the exhibition and discussion with De León the UMP team.
Registation is required.
Beginning in the summer of 2020, the School of Advanced Research (SAR), in collaboration SITE Santa Fe and Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe (CCA), presents Beyond Borders, a series of installations and events starting with Hostile Terrain 94, a participatory art project and exhibition intended to call attention to the realities of migration and border policy in our hemisphere.
To learn more about the full run of Beyond Borders programming, visit https://sarweb.org/beyond-borders-2020/
Following the launch of Hostile Terrain 94, join MacArthur Fellows Jason De León and Steven Feld as they explore how research and data can be translated creatively for public consumption through numerous forms of art and media, and be used to inspire individuals to take action in their own lives to contribute to the greater good.
Registration is required.
Funding for this event provided by the MacArthur Foundation.
Speakers:
SAR 2013/2014 resident fellow, Jason De León / De León’s 2015 book, The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (winner of the 2018 J.I. Staley Prize) chronicles the suffering and deaths of undocumented migrants who attempted to cross into the United States through the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. His work combines ethnography, archaeology, linguistics, and forensic science and questions the effectiveness of the 1994 Prevention through Deterrence policies enacted by the U.S. government. Building on this work, De León created the traveling installation, Hostile Terrain 94.
SAR Senior Scholar, Steven Feld / Ethnomusicologist and Columbia University professor of anthropology, Steven Feld began working in Papua New Guinea’s Bosavi region in 1976 and has dedicated much of his career to documenting the sounds and cultural dynamics of the area. In 1991 he released an ambient soundscape album, Voices of the Rainforest (part of Mickey Hart’s Endangered Music Project). In 2018 released a full-length documentary by the same title that merged his audio archive with visuals from the rain forest and interviews with community members. Speaking about the project, Michael Stone notes, “The result is as close as we humans are likely to come in communicating with spirits gone but not departed, something that, despite the unimaginable cultural losses charged to the disingenuous promise of western “development,” Bosavi people, as cultural innovators in a wailing world, have long and tragically understood.”
COLLECTIONS OF DISTINCTION
Image above: Painting by Fritz Scholder, courtesy of Janis Lyon.
at the home of Janis Lyon, in memory of Dennis Lyon
Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2020, 5:30-7:30PM
Admission: $75 per person, includes drinks and hors d’oeuvres
$25 per person for President’s Circle members
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Visit the Santa Fe home of Janis Lyon and the late Dennis (Denny) Lyon. Denny served on the SAR Board of Directors from 1996 to 2004 and had a passion for collecting in the Southwest. The Lyons have collected for many years, and their collection of pottery from New Mexico and Arizona includes pieces by Maria Martinez, Tony Da, and Nampeyo. The collection also includes New Mexican retablos, some of which are represented in the publication, A Century of Retablos: The Dennis & Janis Lyon Collection of New Mexican Santos, 1780–1880. Other works include early painters of the Taos Society of Artists, including Walter Ufer; paintings by Fritz Scholder and Paul Pletka; sculptures by Bob Haozous; pottery by Rick Dillingham; Spanish Colonial furniture; 19th to mid-20th-century Mexican ceramics; New Mexican early crosses; and more. The Lyons were mentored by Dr. Frank Harlow, a pioneering physicist from Los Alamos and authority on Pueblo pottery, as well as historian, art collector, and author Larry Frank.
Generously hosted by Janis Lyon.