It is hard to say which aspect of the story of Ana Mendieta, the sadness, the outrage, or the beauty, predominates.
Mendieta arrived in the US from Cuba at age 12 as a refugee. In art school she established themes of the female body, nature, land, spiritualism, and ritual. That period, second-wave feminism, influenced a generation. She moved to New york after her MFA at about age 30. It would be about that age 30 before her parents would be able to leave Cuba and join her in the US.
Much of her work used her own body as a medium in a large number of short films and performances. At age 36, she married minimalist artist Carl Andre. Nine months later, she "accidentally" fell to her death from the window of Andre's apartment.
Her death roiled the New York art world and fueled the Guerilla Girls movement.
Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra (1987) directed by Nereyda Garcia - Ferraz, Kate Horsfield and Branda Miller shows tonight. It traces her work and includes interviews with the artist. A good starting point for Mendieta is https://www.anamendietaartist.com curated by her close sister.
It's https://www.steloarts.org/stelo-events/fuegodetierra at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 7PM RSVP at link Free
Gareth James and David Joselit bring Late Night Legal Formalities. Society has a strong interest in word-based art.
As part of that program, Matthew Ellis, historiesofthepresent.com, presents a talk, A Spectre is Haunting the World – The Spectre of Modernism. Ellis moves to the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California to teach in the Fall.
A Zoom link is available by emailing the gallery.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
Recording engineer Tucker Martine grew up in Nashville and established a recording studio in his living room in Seattle. At that time he worked in the low-fi style popular at the time. Moving to Portland, he established another home studio, then busted out with purpose-built studios. Now Flora Recording and Playback https://www.florarecording.com is well established. He has ears. In the recording and music world, that is shorthand for highly trained ears and the knowledge to make a recording that translates across playback environments. Tonight he hosts a listening session on a Devon Turnbull OJAS playback system. Tonight has a focus on field recording elements, a new field for Martine.
It is https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/selections-no-7-presented-by-tucker-martine at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36
