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“A Dream of Being: Arte Urgente

Elena Baskin Art Studios 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, California, United States

Caleb Duarte and Mia Eve Rollow are multidisciplinary artists and frequent collaborators whose individual practices and community collaborations focus on radical resistance. From 2009-2014, they co-founded and directed EDELO (En Donde Era la ONU / Where the United Nations Used to BE). A centripetal community and artistic space of collective activities in Chiapas, Mexico, the project […]

“Private Ear” An Online Conversation with Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Join us for an online conversation with artist and audio investigator Lawrence Abu Hamdan about listening, evidence-handling, and evidence-giving. A co-winner of the 2019 Turner Prize, Abu Hamdan explores the politics, as well as the aesthetics, of sound and voice. His audio investigations have also served as evidence in juridical proceedings and as advocacy for […]

Ashley Hunt: Artist’s Talk

Join Ashley Hunt, artist and professor at CalArts, for an artist's talk about his long-standing practices of anti-carceral activism and photography. What does it mean to use art as the medium through which we see the building of the prison system; and its unbuilding? We invite the community to take up these questions in the […]

Worlds Without Boundaries: A Conversation with Sky Hopinka and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, California, United States

Join us for a public conversation between artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) and Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. This event is presented in conjunction with the multi-sited exhibition Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen, on display at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences Galleries and the San José Museum […]