Puerto Rican artists in the exhibition "Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas" at UCR ARTSblock
Adál’s “Coconauts in
Space,” from 2016, at the University of California, Riverside.
Credit Adál/UCR
Artsblock
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – UCR ARTSblock announces the participating artists in Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas. The exhibition, which is part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, brings together works by over thirty contemporary artists and collectives from across the Americas who use science fiction to imagine new realities and alternate worlds.
“Mundos Alternos will
present works by over thirty artists that together provocatively address issues
of identity, nationhood, and transnational politics,” said Sheila Bergman,
Executive Director of ARTSblock.
“This selection
includes seminal artists such as Guillermo Gómez-Peña, best known for his
collaborative performance work, as well as emerging voices, such as the
internet artist Jillian Mayer.”
“Our extensive research included eighteen
months of travel throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico,
Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. We visited more than 400 artists, curators, and
scholars to ultimately choose these 31 Chicano, Latino, and Latin American
artists and groups,” said Tyler Stallings, Artistic Director of the Culver
Center of the Arts and co-curator of the exhibition.
Laura
Molina, Amor Alien, 2004. Collection of the National Museum of Mexican Art,
Chicago. CCBY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
“Among all the artists
whose practices we learned about during our research, we could have curated any
number of versions of this exhibition,” added Joanna Szupinska-Myers, CMP
Curator of Exhibitions and co-curator of the exhibition. The exhibition in its
final form, the curators explain, will show science fiction as a genre that
allows artists to imagine new realities, both utopic and dystopic, within
hemispheric exchanges throughout the Americas.
“Among other things,
science fiction captures an impulse in visual art, performance, and even
costume design galvanizing artists to shape shift and alter the relations of
power through cosmic existences. These personae illuminate other structures of
reality and exteriorize ways of feeling alien in the face of rigid definitions
of American citizenship,” explained Robb Hernández, Assistant Professor of
English at UCR and co-curator of the exhibition.
“Mundos Alternos is
the first effort of transnational scope to identify the growing tendency of
science fiction in contemporary Latin American and Latino art, a tendency that
recasts ‘the future’ at a time when debates over immigration reform,
militarized borders, and building ‘the wall’ might suggest otherwise,” he
added. The exhibition will feature works in all genres, including significant
installations by Tania Candiani, Beatriz Cortez, Chico MacMurtrie, Rubén Ortiz
Torres, Rigo 23, and Simón Vega, and a new performance by Guillermo Gómez-Peña.
The exhibition will
encompass the 8,000 square feet that comprise the changing exhibition galleries
at ARTSblock’s three venues: the California Museum of Photography (CMP), Culver
Center of the Arts, and Sweeney Art Gallery. A heavily illustrated, 160-page
book will accompany the exhibition, and will include original essays by the
curators as well as leading science fiction scholars. Mundos Alternos is
curated by Robb Hernández, Assistant Professor of English at UCR; Tyler
Stallings, Artistic Director of the Culver Center of the Arts; and Joanna
Szupinska-Myers, CMP Curator of Exhibitions. Kathryn Poindexter, CMP Curatorial
Assistant, is Project Coordinator. Sherryl Vint, Director of the Speculative
Fiction and Cultures of Science program at UCR, curates an accompanying film
program. Major support for this exhibition and publication is provided through
grants from the Getty Foundation.
Participating artists: ADÁL (Puerto Rico), AZTLAN Dance
Company, Guillermo Bert, Erica Bohm, Tania Candiani, Beatriz Cortez, Claudio
Dicochea, Faivovich & Goldberg, Sofía Gallisá Muriente (Puerto Rico), Guillermo
Gómez-Peña /, La Pocha Nostra, La Gravedad de los Asuntos, (Nahum and Ale de la
Puente), With selected participants Tania Candiani,, Juan José Díaz Infante,
Nahum, Ale de la Puente, Hector Hernandez, Gyula Kosice, LA VATOCOSMICO c-s, Robert
“Cyclona” Legorreta, Chico MacMurtrie / Amorphic Robot Works, Marion Martinez ,
MASA—MeChicano Alliance of Space Artists (Luis Valderas and Paul Karam) With
selected participants Luis “Chispas” Guerrero, Sergio Hernández, Debora
Kuetzpal Vasquez, Miguel Luciano (Puerto Rico), Laura Molina, Tony Ortega, Raul Servin, Luis
Valderas,Jillian Mayer , Mundo Meza, Irvin Morazán, Glexis Novoa , Rubén Ortiz Torres, Rigo 23,
Alex Rivera,Clarissa Tossin, Carmelita
Tropicana,Luis Valderas, Ricardo Valverde, José Luis Vargas(Puerto Rico) and Simón Vega.
Rigo 23, Autonomous
InterGalactic Space Program, 2009-12. Installation view at REDCAT, Los Angeles.
Courtesy of REDCAT, Los Angeles. Photo: Scott Groller.
Mundos Alternos is
part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration
of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, taking place
from September 16, 2017 - February 4, 2018 at more than 70 cultural institutions
from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and from Los Angeles to Palm Springs. Pacific
Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across
Southern California. The presenting sponsor is Bank of
America
UCR ARTSblock is located at 3824 & 3834 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92501, and includes three venues:
the California Museum of Photography, Culver Center of the Arts, and Sweeney Art Gallery, which are
open Tuesday through Saturday, noon-5 pm. Admission is $3 and includes entry to all three venues. For
more information, visit http://artsblock.ucr.edu.
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