Caesura: The Other Side of the Tracks Performance by Raven Chacon & Guillermo Galindo

Name: Caesura: The Other Side of the Tracks Performance by Raven Chacon & Guillermo Galindo
Start: 2024-07-12T19:30:00-06:00
End: 2024-07-12T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Ogden Union Station

Schedule

Fri Jul 12 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Ogden Union Station | Ogden, UT

Join Ogden Contemporary Arts at Ogden's Union Station for a memorable evening of performance art with Raven Chacon & Guillermo Galindo.

Caesura is composed based on historically significant train routes identified and researched by the artists, written collaboratively using a method of call-and-response. The title refers to the musical term for a pause and is also referred to as “railroad tracks.” Galindo and Chacon’s score is a shape-shifting composition utilizing alleged “hobo code” symbols as notations for performers’ movements between instruments, becoming a language of nomadic sound. Designed to be realized at Ogden Union Station during the exhibition, the score responds to and adapts to the places where it is performed. The project will acknowledge the many communities that were shaped, transported, and left behind by the train tracks. The performance will also invoke the social and economic divisions between communities created by the invention of modern transportation and the commercial expansion it facilitated.

Caesura is a piece for percussion created from detritus sourced from old pieces of railroad infrastructure. Performers will strike, roll, scratch, and otherwise sound various objects together, with some performers stationed in fixed positions, and others following a series of instructions that moves them from station to station across a mapped area. It is a transient-rich percussion-oriented score that is highly dynamic both in volume of sound and location of sound sources.

This performance is a FREE and public program from our current exhibit, The Other Side of the Tracks.

This performance is made possible by generous support from the National Performance Network https://npnweb.org/

Artist Bio's:

RAVEN CHACON (Diné) Red Hook, New York • spiderwebsinthesky.com
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, he has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Kennedy Center, among many others. As a member of Postcommodity, he co-created artworks presented at the Whitney Biennial and documenta 14, among others. As a long time recording artist, Chacon has appeared on over 80 releases on national and international labels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received numerous prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, a United States Artists fellowship, and The Creative Capital award in Visual Arts. His solo artworks are in the collections of major museums and private collections.

GUILLERMO GALINDO
Bay Area, California / Mexico City • galindog.com
Mexican artist Guillermo Galindo is an experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist, and visual media artist whose work redefines the conventional limits between music, music composition, interdisciplinary practices, politics, humanitarian issues, spirituality, and social awareness. He received his BA in film scoring and composition from Berklee College of Music and his MA in composition and electronic music from Mills College. His work as includes solo instrumental works, operas, sonic sculptures, visual arts, computer interaction works, electro-acoustic music, film, instrument building, three-dimensional immersive installations, and live improvisation. His graphic scores and three-dimensional, sculptural, cyber-totemic sonic objects have been shown at museums and art biennials in America, Europe, and Asia, and are in the permanent collections of major museums. Galindo presently teaches at the California College of Arts in San Francisco.