The place where the creek goes underground Opening Event
In this opening program for The place where the creek goes underground, the artist Anthony Romero will join the artist Kade Twist and the community activist Roberto Bedoya in a conversation about place-keeping, belonging, and kinship as part of his newly commissioned exhibition.
The place where the creek goes underground presents a series of works that form an archive of place-based knowledge for understanding and honoring what the ground tells us to remember. At Radcliffe, Romero’s exhibition centers on the region that both the artist and his collaborators, Deanna Ledezma and Josh Rios, call home and where their families continue to reside, between South-Central Texas and Northern Mexico. His presentation invites audiences to sit with and share histories of knowing, strategies of solidarity, and new horizons for the formation of common ground through creative collaboration on issues of labor, immigration, marginalization, and changes to our climate and natural resources.
Harvard Radcliffe Institute gratefully acknowledges the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Endowment Fund for the Arts, which is supporting this program.
Speakers
Anthony Romero is an artist, writer, and organizer committed to documenting and supporting Black, brown, and Indigenous communities. He is a founding member of the artistic research collective, Sonic Insurgency Research Group. Romero was the 2019–2020 David and Roberta Logie Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and is currently an associate professor of studio art at Dartmouth College.
Roberto Bedoya is the cultural affairs manager for the City of Oakland, where he recently shepherded its cultural plan, “Belonging in Oakland: A Cultural Development Plan.” Throughout his career, Bedoya has consistently supported artist-centered cultural practices and advocated for expanded definitions of inclusion and belonging in the cultural sector.
Kade L. Twist is an interdisciplinary artist working with video, sound, interactive media, text, and installation environments. Twist's work combines reimagined tribal stories with geopolitical narratives to examine the unresolved tensions between market-driven systems, consumerism, and American Indian cultural self-determination. Twist is one of the cofounders of Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary artist collective.
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