CALA Crossfade LAB
Schedule
Wed Nov 16 2022 at 07:00 pm
Location
308 N. 2nd Ave Phoenix AZ 85003 | Phoenix, AZ
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Wednesday November 16, 2022Doors: 630 PM
Show: 7 PM
All Ages
Student General Admission: $5
General Admission: $10
*THERE ARE NO COVID ENTRY REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS SHOW*
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CALA Alliance (Celebración Artística de las Américas) will host Crossfade LAB on Wednesday, November 16, 2022. The series returns to Crescent Ballroom for its eleventh installment, featuring celebrated performance artist Carlos Martiel and acclaimed musician Xenia Rubinos. Crossfade LAB is the only event of its kind in the nation. It is a thought-provoking blend of conversations, art experiences, live musical performances, and unexpected collaborations with internationally renowned Indigenous, Latinx, and Latin American artists. It will be offered in a hybrid manner, offering a live-stream option with bilingual live captioning, allowing the program to traverse physical, linguistic, and auditory barriers for a more accessible experience.
This iteration of Crossfade LAB features a special meeting between Cuban-born, Mexico City and New York-based performance artist Carlos Martiel and New York-based Xenia Rubinos. Moderated by MacArthur Fellow and Crossfade LAB co-curator Josh Kun, the evening will blend emotionally charged performances that underscore the lived realities of Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color with soulful Caribbean-inspired jazz melodies. The fusion of sound and political image will transport audiences across the dynamic geographies of the Americas, from Cuba to the Dominican Republic, New York to Phoenix, underscoring the often-political realities that exist while traversing space and place as people of color.
About the Artists
Carlos Martiel (born Havana, Cuba) lives and works in New York and Mexico City. He graduated in 2009 from the National Academy of Fine Arts “San Alejandro,” in Havana. Between the years 2008–2010, he studied in the Cátedra Arte de Conducta, directed by the artist Tania Bruguera. Martiel’s works have been included in the Biennial of the Americas, USA; 4th Vancouver Biennale, Canada; 14th Sharjah Biennial UAE; 14th Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador; 57th Venice Biennale, Italy; Casablanca Biennale, Morocco; Biennial “La Otra”, Colombia; Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom; Pontevedra Biennial, Spain; Havana Biennial, Cuba. He has had performances at The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York; Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; La Tertulia Museum, Cali, Colombia; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH), Houston; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia (MACZUL), Maracaibo, Venezuela; Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy; Nitsch Museum, Naples, Italy.
Xenia Rubinos is a visionary singer and music maker. She dips in and out of genre and structure to create movingly powerful songs with her signature sound. Rubinos’s powerhouse vocals are at the center of her music which grows from a wide range of influences from R&B to Hip-Hop to jazz to rumba, boleros and Caribbean rhythms all delivered with a soulful punk aura. Pitchfork lauded the radiant singer as “a unique new pop personality” while a profile in The New Yorker described her work as “rhythmically fierce, vocally generous music that slips through the net of any known genre.”
About CALA Alliance
CALA Alliance (Celebración Artística de las Américas) is a multidisciplinary Latinx arts organization based in Phoenix that collaborates with artists and arts organizations to connect Arizona, Mexico, and Latin America. CALA Alliance advances its mission through innovative public programming, artist commissions, international residencies, and cultural exchanges that reimagine Arizona’s place in the Americas. CALA Alliance envisions a cultural landscape that values the creative and artistic contributions of Latinxs and latinoamericanxs, and critically engages their stories in Arizona and throughout the Americas
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