habitat: exploring climate change through the arts

Exploring Climate Change Through the Arts

FALL 2015 • Program Guide

www.516arts.org

IntroductIon

contents

Exhibitions 4-9

Public Programs 10-18

Downtown Block Party 12-13

Education 19-21

Directory of Venues 22

Support 30-31

Calendar 32

Welcome to the new project organized by 516 ARTS! HABITAT: Exploring Climate Change Through the Arts is a collaborative season of public programming that offers an array of ways to learn and engage in dialogue about climate change, how it will effect our day to day lives and what it means for the future of our world.

Climate change is an urgent issue of both global and local concern. According to the most recent National Climate Assessment, the Southwest can be considered one of the most “climate-challenged” regions of North America, with rising annual temperature averages, declining water supplies, and reduced agricultural yields. In New Mexico we’ve already seen destabilized and unpredictable weather patterns, water sources going dry, forests not recovering from fire, loss of urban trees and crop failures. Public programs for HABITAT strive to raise awareness about these issues by taking an innovative approach to engaging with social and environmental change, and by bringing the community together to focus on sustainability.

Among the plethora of writing about climate change that has come across my path recently, I read this: “Climate is so unfathomably large and diffuse, and our actions — individually, even as countries — so local and parochial

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Cover: Jerry Gretzinger, E.vii from Jerry’s Map, 2015, mixed media, dimensions variable • Left: Cedra Wood, Lemmings, 2014, graphite on paper, 17 x 13 inches

1 David Roberts, from “Jonathan Franzen is confused about climate change, but then, lots of people are,” www.grist.org, 4/2/15

“For some, perhaps, art may be a hammer with which to shape reality, for others it’s a window opening on a world seen in a compellingly new way. But it can also be a feather that tickles you through a difficult idea to a new understanding and frame of mind. Whichever works for you, climate action abhors a cultural

vacuum. We need more.” — Andrew Simms from “Why Climate Action Needs the Arts,” The Guardian, 6/3/15

in comparison. It’s difficult to live with that gap. People naturally need some sort of entrée, some way in, some angle that reduces the brain-frying complexity and ambiguity to manageable proportions.”1

There are an increasing number of articles that identify the arts as a vital and necessary way to address what is on so many of our minds around the world. And if it’s not on some people’s minds, it should be. Artists provide us a way to engage and nurture a cultural shift.

516 ARTS has joined forces with a group of forward-thinking artists, scholars, organizations, sponsors and funders to put climate change at the forefront. I look forward to a rich season of thought-provoking dialogue about what this global crisis means to our community.

Addressing the challenges before us all will take a wealth of creativity and collaboration, for which the arts provide a fertile platform. Thank you to all the artists, presenters, participants and supporters who are joining together with us to further understanding about climate change and inspire positive action in our lives.

— Suzanne Sbarge

Executive Director, 516 ARTS

oFF tHe cHArts

Processing our place in the world

In the downstairs gallery, Off the Charts examines the visual language artists use to document, process, map and manipulate a better understanding of the ever-evolving world we inhabit. Not only do we render territorial borders imposed on geography, or the network of nerves and arterial highways in the living body, we have devised ways of depicting the most elusive phenomena and abstract concepts, such as time or human consciousness. With the help of increasingly sophisticated instruments to aid our imagination, we can now see and describe a myriad of processes once thought invisible or incomprehensible, revealing worlds we never knew existed. This desire for organization of thoughts, places and events reveal countless layers of meaning through the often-interconnected fabric of social, political, economic and environmental causation.

ARTISTS

Sandow Birk & Elyse Pignolet

Anne Gilman

Jerry Gretzinger

Mary Iverson

Bethany Johnson

Jane Lackey

Mitchell Marti

Nathalie Miebach

James Sterling Pitt

Ross Racine

Matthew Rangell

Alexander Webb

Curated by Rhiannon Mercer & Claude Smith

ExHIBITIon DATES: August 29 – October 31, 2015

ExhibiTion oPEninG: Saturday, August 29, 6-8pmLive music by Selsun Blue

Mary Iverson, (detail), Shipbreaking, Mount Rainier, 2013, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches • Mitchell Marti, Full Empty, 2012, lithograph, 29 x 22 inches

exhibitions

“Much that we cannot imagine living without has been with us for a handful of generations, often less — the supermarket cornucopias, the wondrous machines — but there are certain elements within our experience that seem to be as old as being human. Making images and telling stories are among them. ”

— Dougald Hine from “The Shield of Perseus: Writing in the face of climate change”, freewordcentre.com, 2/4/15

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KneW norMAL

Artists bear witness

In the upstairs gallery, Knew Normal presents a selection of recent works from established and emerging contemporary artists who use paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture and wearable art to bear witness to the moments when environments, including the body, become more difficult or awkward to inhabit for reasons generally attributed to climate change. The artists in Knew Normal depict universally familiar themes of loss and uncertainty, tempered with unmistakable empathy and, at times, hope and humor. Each artwork in the exhibition tells a story about how our physical and psychological environments are shaped by current climates, whether social, political or environmental. Several of the artists also look to the future, as characters of the existing universe are drastically altered or disappear altogether. Knew Normal recognizes the age old tradition (or compulsion) of art making as a strategy for understanding complex circumstances and emotions. As we come to terms with our “new normal,” and as we brace for the near and distant future, what will we learn from what once was and how might we affect what will be?

ARTISTS

Gala Bent

Magda Biernat

Nick Brown

Mel Chin

Adriane Colburn

Naomi Kizhner

Lee Lee

Wendy Mason

Nina Montenegro

Ryan Pierce

Liliana Porter

Dario Robleto

Miriam Simun

Cedra Wood

Curated by Nancy Zastudil


ExhibiTion oPEninG: Saturday, August 29, 6-8pm


“In the end, the only thing that could create the necessary traction in our minds was the intimate loss of the things we loved...I found my mind finally beginning to turn from the elegiac what have we done to the practical what can we do?”

— Zadie Smith, from “Elegy for a Country’s Seasons“, The New York Review of Books, 4/3/14

Gala Bent, Ship for Fools (detail), gouache & graphite on paper, 30 x 22 inches • Liliana Porter, Black Drips, 2015, acrylic & figurine on wood, 6.25 x 2.75 x 1.25 inches

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controL rooM / regenerAtIonWArM And Fuzzy

Knew Normal satellite exhibition

Control Room is a selection of photographs by Abbey Hepner taken in Waynesboro, Georgia. The same year the nuclear meltdown occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, the U.S. government granted Southern Company an $8.33 billion dollar loan to build two new reactors at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro. These are the first nuclear energy reactors to be built in the U.S. in over 30 years. The United States has not built new nuclear plants since the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979. Interested in the city of Waynesboro, Hepner set out to discover what components existed to make it the site of the nuclear renaissance.

Regeneration catalogs two years of artist Nina Montenegro’s work across Western American landscapes. Included is her ongoing series Pioneers, through which she considers the possibilities for regeneration in disturbed landscapes, making cyanotype portraits of plants that first colonize bare ground. Also included are wax tree rubbings that illuminate the inseparability of humans and the natural world, and map weavings that draw attention to the illusory boundaries humans construct on the land. Infused with a poetic sensitivity, the collection of works is at once critical and redemptive.

in the Project Room

Warm and Fuzzy by Mark Lee Koven is an installation of responsive objects that in-tegrate scientific data with art. Working with climatologists, meteorologists and sociologists, scientific data relating to cli-mate and our beliefs and predictions are made physical and reactive to viewers. These 3-D printed objects, along with the space they occupy, are designed for reac-tion and interaction in order for visitors to have a deeper connection with data beyond the visual that includes the haptic, the aural and the olfactory senses.



ARTIST TAlk: Abbey Hepner Friday, September 11, 6pm

Mark Lee Koven, 3-D data print (detail) • Abbey Hepner, Towers, 2015 archival pigment print, 15 x 20 inches

Central Features 109 5th St. SW, Albuquerque505-243-3389www.centralfeatures.com open Tue, Fri & Sat, 11am-6pm Free

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BeWILderness / rIse

Spotlight on two of Albuquerque’s virtuoso painters

516 ARTS spotlights two of Albuquerque’s most prolific painters with concurrent solo exhibitions exploring contemporary changes in the landscape while referencing the rich history of classical and 19th century American Landscape painting.

Scott Greene says, “Bewilderness exists beyond imagination, myth and reality. It is located somewhere between Arcadia and dystopia, and where the past and present collide. It is a state of mind in which contradiction is essential and even celebrated. Awe-inspiring natural beauty revealed to be a construct, it is a refuge with no shelter, a place of spiritual certainty, utter confusion and blissful ignorance. My work explores the balance between the natural environment and artificial constructs, and questions that the two are mutually exclusive.”

Beau Carey says about his exhibition Rise: “By using references to navigational coastal profiling and by borrowing and subverting compositional structures of the 19th century American landscape painters, I examine how modern landscapes came to be spatially constructed. Through my work I explore this spatial language, at times allowing individual works to teeter into abstraction. The works in Rise look specifically at how we will navigate and view a rapidly changing physical world.”

At the Artists’ Talk on December 3, 6pm, poet Melisa Garcia will present a reading of ekphrastic responses to the artists’ work. Ekphrastic poetry vividly describes a work of art, through the imaginative act of narration or reflection, allowing the poet to amplify or expand its meaning.

ARTISTS

Scott Greene

Beau Carey

ExHIBITIon DATES: November 21, 2015 – January 9, 2016

ExhibiTion oPEninG: Saturday, november 21, 6-8pm

ARTiSTS’ TALk: Thursday, December 3, 6pm


Scott Greene, La Bajada Bluff (detail), 2013, oil on canvas, 30 x 50 inches, courtesy of Catharine Clark Gallery Beau Carey, Fata Morgana (detail), 2012, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches

exhibitions

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public programs

Image by Alfred Simon

Invisibility, uncertainty, Art and Landscape

Artists and designers address the invisible

UNM Landscape Architecture and Art & Ecology invite the public to a mini-symposium to explore the methods environmentally-minded artists and designers use to address the challenge of making the invisible visible, and working with uncertainties in a complex and changing world. In addition to presentations by practitioners, short interactive experiences will give attendees a taste of the interdisciplinary working processes of Art & Ecology and Landscape Architecture.

While the climate change debate is becoming more visible, the phenomenon itself is still largely invisible, and while there is certainty about human induced climate change, there is uncertainty about the degree and timing of its effects.

Invisibility, Uncertainty, Art and Landscape features accomplished speakers from the perspectives of planning, art, design, architecture, poetry and ecology. The conclusion of the symposium is the HABITAT keynote lecture by Mel Chin titled The Potential

Project at 5:30pm in UNM’s Keller Hall (See page 11). Chin is a nationally recognized artist whose prolific body of analytical and poetic work investigates how art can provoke greater social and environmental awareness and responsibility.

SYMPoSiUM: Thursday, September 10, 1-4pm

ABQ UNM CityLab505 Central Ave. SW, Albuquerque505-277-4120www.saap.unm.eduFree

SPEAkERS

John BarneyTheresa Cardenas Catherine HarrisRyan HenelMark Lee KovenAndrea PolliGeorge RadnovichAlfred Simon

Organized by Alfred Simon, Catherine Harris, Andrea Polli & JoDee Chavez

“As an issue, climate change is perfect for symbolic battle, because it is as yet mostly invisible. Carbon diox-ide, its main cause, is not emitted in billowing black clouds, like other pollutants; nor is it caustic, smelly, or

poisonous. A side effect of modernity, it has for now a tiny practical impact on most people’s lives.” — Charles C. Mann, The Atlantic, 9/14

11Left: Mel Chin, Bank of the Sun

MeL cHIn: the Potential Project

A working economic model in response to climate change

516 ARTS, in partnership with UNM College of Fine Arts, presents The Potential

Project, a talk by special guest artist Mel Chin, which introduces a response to climate change through a model of sustainable economic freedom coming from a people without national status. Chin states, “For forty years Saharawi nomads have lived in refugee camps in their native land under Moroccan occupation, and in Algeria, awaiting a vote for self-determination. Forty years ago, Wallace S. Broecker first postulated ‘global warming’ due to human impact. Now this has become an internationally accepted reality. Devastating storms, decreasing polar ice and rising waters now threaten the world in an unprecedented way. A planned response to both scenarios emerged, after my visit to the Western Saharan refugee camps in 2011, as The Potential Project. The project envisions a Bank of the Sun that could provide the rest of the world with a working economic model as a response to climate change and by extension, a means to amplify the voice of a group of people silenced by isolation and desperation. The Potential Project envisions the first currency of the Saharawi people, utilizing their artistic expressions to guide its design, and to have its value backed by the power of the sun.”

The following day after the talk at UNM’s Keller Hall, the public is invited to 516 ARTS to join in a conversation with Mel Chin about art that addresses climate change issues and delve further into The Potential Project.

Mel Chin was born in Houston, Texas in 1951. Chin’s art, which is both analytical and poetic, evades easy classification. He is known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works that conjoin cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ideas. Chin also insinuates art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and even popular television, investigating how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility. Chin also promotes “works of art” that have the ultimate effect of benefiting science. His projects are consistent with a conceptual philosophy, which emphasizes the practice of art to include sculpting and bridging the natural and social ecology. Chin has received numerous awards and grants from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council for the Arts, Art Matters, Creative Capital, and the Penny McCall, Pollock/Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Rockefeller and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundations, among others.

kEYnoTE PRESEnTATion:Thursday, September 10, 5:30pm

Keller Hall, Center for the ArtsUNM Main Campus, AlbuquerqueInfo: 505-242-1445 • www.516arts.orgFree

RoUnDTAbLE:Friday, September 11, 2pm

516 ARTS 516 Central Ave. SW, Albuquerque505-242-1445 • www.516arts.org FreeRSVP required: [email protected]

doWntoWn BLocK PArty

GhostFood, an interactive performance piece by Miriam Simun,

explores eating in a future of biodiversity loss brought on by

climate change. Scent-food pairings are consumed by the public

using a wearable device that adapts human physiology to enable

taste experiences of unavailable foods. Performers include

members of Tricklock Company. Special thanks to Levitated Toy

Factory.

The Public Energy Art kit (P.E.A.K.) is a compendium of 14 post-

ers about the challenge of tackling climate change, energy in-

equality and fossil fuel dependency. This project is developed by

a group of artists including Steve Lambert with the Post Carbon

Art, Food and Fun for the whole family!516 ARTS presents our third Downtown Block Party, this year in partnership with Downtown ABQ MainStreet Initiative and the Outpost Performance Space. We invite everyone to this free outdoor event featuring interactive art projects, performances, demos and education opportunities that examine issues of climate change and ways we can make a difference for the future. Topics include solar power, alternative energy, water issues, local farming and food economy. Art projects include:

Miriam Simun, GhostFood • Olafur Eliasson & Frederik Ottesen, Little Sun , photo by Merklit Mersha • Racine Kreyol • Mark Lee Koven, Earth Drop from Taking One’s Temperature • Jacob Arden McLure, Energy Sprawl (detail), poster for P.E.A.K.

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“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” — Andy Warhol

Institute, Foundation for Deep Ecology, Grace Communications

and Wallace Action Fund.

Mourning Global Warming by Sarita Zaleha features a growing

collection of in-progress embroideries of names of natural

disasters and climate change concerns, which are sewn into

patchwork flags and used at climate change events around the

country.

Little Sun Pop-Up Shop by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer

Frederik Ottesen is a social business and global project addressing

the need for light in a sustainable way that benefits communities

without electricity, creates local jobs, and generates local profits.

Saturday, September 124-8pm

On Central Avenue

between 5th & 6th Streets

in front of 516 ARTS

FreeInfo: 505-242-1445 • www.516arts.org

ART:111 Media Collective T-Shirt Lab

ABQ UNM CityLab

Ethan Bach, J. Craig Tompkins & Charles Veasey

Olafur Eliasson & Frederik Ottesen

Explora

Abbey Hepner

Jeanette Hart-Mann & Chrissie Orr

Jacobo Hernandez & Bosque School

Mark Lee Koven

Steve Lambert & Collaborators

Andrea Polli & The Social Media Workgroup

Miriam Simun

Sarita Zaleha

MUSiC:Racine Kreyol

Jade Masque

DJ Gabriel Jaureguiberry

FooD:Fresco New Mexico

Robert Hoberg & Food Karma

Pop Fizz

Street Food Institute

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The Leftovers Project led by Robert Hoberg with the Downtown Growers’ Market

and Food Karma, teaches about the waste of excess food by offering local, healthy

and delicious tastings created by local chefs from the leftover produce from the

morning’s Downtown Growers’ Market.

The Future of Energy, by Andrea Polli with The Social Media Workgroup students

from UNM Art & Ecology program, engages the public with local energy issues

using an app to find and create potential energy, and to see what they are

gathering or generating in real time on visualization tools.

Taking one’s Temperature by Mark Lee Koven is an interactive installation that

integrates scientific data, technology and art. Using playful activities and altered

environmental conditions through experiential aural and visual content, partici-

pants discover how our personal memories play a role in how we perceive environ-

mental influences, current perceptions and beliefs.

For descriptions of all of the featured projects, visit www.516arts.org.

Stop by the tents to learn more about Positive Energy Solar, STEMarts and

ThE PASEo, Juntos, Sierra Club, Zagster/CyQloVîA, and Mid-Region Council of

Governments. Visit 516 ARTS to see the exhibitions and check out the climate

change pop-up book shop from bookworks.

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FiLM: Friday, September 18, 8pm

chasing Ice

LoCATion: Outdoors on Civic Plaza Between 3rd & 5th Streets and Tijeras & Marquette Downtown AlbuquerqueInfo: 505-242-1445 • www.516arts.org Free

516 ARTS and Downtown ABQ MainStreet Initiative present a large outdoor screening of the spectacular film Chasing Ice. In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Chasing

Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog deployed revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. Balog’s hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Chasing Ice depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet. It received the 2014 News and Documentary Emmy® award for Outstanding Nature Programming. It has screened in more than 172 countries and on all seven continents. 2012, 75 minutes.

Special thanks to Civic Plaza Presents and the Albuquerque Convention Center.

public programs

Join the second annual ABQ CiQloVíA (pronounced “see-clo-vee-a”), the Albuquerque version of the global phenomenon known as ciclovía or “open streets.” The word refers to events where city streets are closed to cars and opened up to people on foot and on bike to help provide better air quality, raise awareness about global climate change, and to explore and practice active transportation modes. Personal vehicles are a major cause of global warming and contribute to poor air quality and emissions. ABQ CiQloVíA is a fun, safe opportunity to ditch the car, clear the air for a day, create awareness around climate change, including the benefits of active transportation, and reimagine our largest public space – streets! This year ABQ CiQloVíA is partnering with the DowntownABQ MainStreet Initiative’s Placemaking effort and 24 Hours of Art to include local arts, music, outdoor exercise classes, dancing, shopping, demonstration projects, educational booths and live music. Artists include Ryan Henel, Chad Person, Pop-Up Collective, and You Are on TV Collective. Arrive on foot, bicycle, public transportation or private vehicle (carpooling highly encouraged!).

FESTiVAL: Sunday, September 20, 10am-3pm ABQ ciQlovíA

LoCATion: 4th Street SWconnecting the Rail Yards Market to Civic PlazaFree

Info: abqciqlovia.org, [email protected]

516 ARTS welcomes the guest curator of Knew

Normal, Nancy Zastudil, to discuss the ways that environmental artists, collectors and supporters find each other – and what exactly is involved in collecting and supporting environmental art. More than a genre of landscape or merely includ-ing materials from nature, environmental and ecological art have grown to embody ideas and actions around preservation, sustainability, cli-mate change, water issues, agriculture and more; and today it encompasses all artistic forms from painting to poetry to political action. Looking to Earthworks and Land Art as its historical lineage, this forum reviews how environmental art has been acquired and exhibited by museums, as well as ways contemporary artists and gallerists have found to place environmental artworks in a com-mercial market. Perspectives respresented include those of the gallerist, environmental artist, pro-fessor, art collector and museum curator.

TALk: Thursday, october 29, 6pm

AndreA PoLLI: Public Art and Activism between climate, culture and Informational space

LoCATion: 516 ARTS 516 Central Ave. SW, Albuquerque505-242-1445 • www.516arts.org Free

LoCATion: 516 ARTS 516 Central Ave. SW, Albuquerque505-242-1445 • www.516arts.org Free

516 ARTS presents artist and technologist Andrea Polli, who will discuss her journey towards activist art related to environment and climate change. She says, “As has been seen in recent tsunami and hurricane disasters, many lives depend on the interpretation of global information. Developing a language or series of languages for communicating this mass of data must evolve, and part of that evolution must include the work of artists. How is the artistic process of transforming data different from the process of transforming physical material? Like a photograph, a data set is a representation, but unlike a photograph, this representation can be entered, explored and transformed. Artists have the opportunity to create works that have an impact through touching the emotions of the audience, which can affect environmental understanding and behavior.”

Andrea Polli works at the intersection of art and science. She is a Professor in Art and Ecology with a joint appointment between Fine Arts and Engineering, the Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media, and the Director of the Social Media Workgroup at the UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing. She holds a PhD in practice-led research from the University of Plymouth in the UK and an MFA in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Nancy Zastudil is the founder of Central Features, an in-novative gallery in Downtown Albuquerque promoting environmental steward-ship, social progress and the in-trinsic value of creative acts. In addition to her work as a curator and art writer, she works for the Frederick Ham-mersley Foundation and The Lightning Field.

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Left: Wendy Mason, Fragrance of 2009, potato, perfume diffuser Above: Andrea Polli, Particle Falls, 2014, live interactive projection, Detroit

FoRUM: Saturday, october 3, 2pm

nAncy zAstudIL: economics of environmental Art

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The Guild Cinema and 516 ARTS present a special screening of No Impact Man. What does it really take to live eco-effec-tively? For one year, Colin Beavan swore off plastic and tox-ins, turned off his electricity, went organic, became a bicycle nut, and tried to save the planet from environmental catas-trophe while dragging his young daughter and his Prada-wearing wife along for the ride. Together they attempted to make zero impact on the environment while living right in the heart of Manhattan, and this is the sensational, funny, and consciousness-raising story of how they did it. With No

Impact Man, Beavan found that no-impact living is worth-while – and richer, fuller, and more satisfying in the bargain.

The No Impact Project is an international, environmental, nonprofit project, founded in the spring of 2009. It was inspired by the No Impact Man book, film, and blog. The No Impact Project uses entertainment, education and group action to engage new people in the quest for ways of living that connect individual happiness with service to commu-nity and habitat. www.noimpact.org

LoCATion: The Guild Cinema3405 Central Ave. NE, Albuquerque505-255-1848 • www.guildcinema.com Admission: $7

FiLM: Saturday & Sunday, november 7 & 8, 1pm

no IMPAct MAn

public programs

FiLM: Thursday, october 8, 7pm

WAste LAnd

LoCATion: National Hispanic Cultural Center Bank of America Theater 1701 4th St. SW, Albuquerque505-246-2261 • www.nhccnm.org Free

The National Hispanic Cultural Center presents Waste

Land. Filmed over nearly three years, Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (Devil’s Playground, Blindsight and Countdown to Zero) and co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley have great access to the entire process and, in the end, offer stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit. 2010, 99 minutes.

Photo of Tricklock Company by Shastyn Blomquist Friedman

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TALk: Thursday, november 12, 6pm

ruBen ArvIzu: cultural Perspectives in the global Quest for Water

LoCATion: National Hispanic Cultural Center Wells Fargo Theater 1701 4th St. SW, Albuquerque505-242-1445 • www.516arts.org Free

The National Hispanic Cultural Center and 516 ARTS present a talk by special guest Ruben Arvizu on the subject of how climate change is affecting Hispanics, connecting his work in Latin America with the Southwestern United States. Arvizu says, “We take the gifts of Nature, of which we are an integral part, without thinking about how we will repay her. It is as if we have a bank account to which we only withdraw funds but never make deposits. There will come a time when that account runs out of resources. We extract the riches of the Earth and do almost nothing to give back some of what she gives us. We just take and squander.”

Ruben Arvizu, together with Jean-Michel Cousteau, was named Am-bassador of the Global Cities Covenant on Climate. He is the Director for Latin America and Film Director/Writer/Producer for Ocean Fu-tures Society; and Director for Latin America with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

“People protect what they love.” — Jacques Cousteau

This event is organized with Theresa Cardenas of the Union of Con-cerned Scientists. Special thanks to Juntos, a program of Conserva-tion Voters New Mexico.

Tricklock Company is proud to team up with 516 ARTS to participate in CLIMATE CHANGE THEATRE ACTION, a series of worldwide readings and performances intended to bring awareness to and discussion around climate change in November 2015. This action is in support of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris (COP 21), taking place November 30 – December 11, 2015. This momentous international event, combined with the U.S. assuming the chair of the Arctic Council in April 2015, means that climate change will be an important conversation in the months to come. Tricklock Company will present several short, new work creations in response to Climate Change. Please join us for the performance, post-show snacks and engaged conversation.

ThEATRE: Saturday, november 14, 2pm

trIcKLocK coMPAny: climate change theatre Action

LoCATion: Tricklock Performance Laboratory110 Gold Ave. SW, Albuquerque505-414-3728 • www.tricklock.com Free

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DinnER: Thursday, December 10, 6pm

cHeF JAMes cAMPBeLL cAruso: Pop-up dinner in the gallery516 ARTS and MÁS Tapas y Vino present a pop-up wine dinner exploring climate change through food, wine and art with Chef James Campbell Caruso. The meal will feature dishes and ingredients that relate to climate change, each telling a story and bringing flavors and experiences to important food issues as we look to the future. We will be joined by special guest Gary Goodman, renowned green builder, president of Goodman Realty and owner of Hotel Andaluz. The multi-course, wine-paired dinner will include dishes for vegetarians as well as carnivores for a totally unique and educational dining experience. Chef Caruso is leading a tapas revolution in New Mexico. He is the owner of two of Santa Fe’s top restaurants, La Boca and La Taberna, and the executive chef at MÁS Tapas y Vino in the historic Hotel Andaluz in Downtown Albuquerque. Caruso is an eight-time James Beard Award nominee, and is the author of two cookbooks:El Farol: Tapas and Spanish

Cuisine and Espana: Exploring the Flavors of Spain. Advance reservations required.

LoCATion: 516 ARTS516 Central Ave. SW, Albuquerque$95 general / $85 for 516 ARTS membersReservations: 505-242-1445, [email protected]

public programsLittle Sun solar lamps available at 516 ARTS

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We are pleased to be joining forces with 516 ARTS to strengthen STEAM education in New Mexico in conjunction with hAbiTAT: Exploring Climate Change Through the Arts. Nationally and internationally, the educational focus of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) is evolving to recognize the importance of integrating the Arts and Design, known as STEAM.

In his last State of the Union address, President Obama said “No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.” Any educational initiative of today that claims to improve the future for our children must address the issue of climate change. While good science is crucial to responding to this challenge, art and design can play a major role in addressing our uncertain future. Art and design can deepen our understanding of the complex science of climate change and promote innovation through creativity. It can communicate powerful stories and help us collectively process our emotions. STEAM can start conversations and inspire real change, and these endeavors inspire students’ passion for learning while developing valuable 21st century skills.

HABITAT: Exploring Climate Change Through the Arts marks the launch of a statewide collaboration designed to strengthen STEAM education in New Mexico. This project, initiated by UNM through The Social Media Workgroup at the Center for Advanced Research Computing and AmeriCorps/VISTA, is designed to bring together groundbreaking art and science initiatives at UNM, our state’s flagship Tier One

steAM education and climate change in new Mexico

— Agnes Chavez & Andrea Polli HABITAT Education Program Partners

Research Institution, with our important cultural institutions including 516 ARTS with the pioneering educational initiatives of The STEMarts Lab.

This fall for HABITAT, UNM is proud to present two free STEAM-related events designed for New Mexico teachers and aspiring graduate students. The UNM Art & Ecology and Landscape Architecture graduate programs are hosting the symposium invisibility, Uncertainty, Art and Landscape (see page 10), and the Social Media Workgroup is hosting the Future Energy Design Storm (see page 5).

516 ARTS has teamed up with The PASEO and the National Hispanic Cultural Center to offer a series of youth work-shops by two PASEO 2015 artists from UNM’s prestigious interdisciplinary MFA program, Abbey Hepner and Ruben Olguin (see p. 15). Through hands-on STEAM workshops at Albuquerque area schools, these artists are engaging students with current and future ecological challenges.

Please visit The PASEO booth at the 516 ARTS Downtown Block Party on September 12, 4-8pm to meet the artists and learn more about STEMarts Lab projects and Taos’ upcoming outdoor art festival, The PASEO.

Agnes Chavez is a new media artist and STEAM specialist who is the Founder and Director of STEMarts Lab and serves as the Associate Director of The PASEO (www.paseotaos.org). Andrea Polli is a Professor of Art and Ecology with appointments in the College of Fine Arts and School of Engineering at the University of New Mexico. She holds the Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media and directs The Social Media Workgroup (thesocialmediaworkgroup.com), a lab at the University’s Center for Advanced Research Computing.

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Left: Olafur Eliasson studio • Above: Abbey Hepner, Bioluminescent Bacteria, 2015

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516 ARTS offers ongoing educational tours for schools and community groups., with free curriculum materials for teachers. Transportation stipends are available to qualifying schools. To schedule a tour, contact Claude Smith: [email protected], 505-242-1445

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Workshops for schools:

To schedule a workshop at your school this fall, contact: JoDee Chavez:505-242-1445, [email protected] Free

Fireflies, jellyfish, algae, glow worms – how and why do some living things glow? This workshop introduces students to the science of bioluminescence and how biological organisms can be self-energizing, responsive and act as biological sensors to environmental conditions. Participants will be introduced to dinoflagellates, which are marine-dwelling algae that emit light. They will explore the science behind bioluminance and create their own glowing drawings with live bacteria. The workshop encourages students to think about how this living light might be used in the future.For ages 7 & up.

YoUTh WoRkShoP:

ABBey HePner: BioArt

Abbey Hepner is a conceptual artist investigating the human relationship with the landscape and technology. Using photography, video, public art intervention and electronic processes, she considers issues related to population growth, man-made disasters, as well as the complex and often contradictory roles surrounding technological progress.

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YoUTh WoRkShoP:

ruBen oLguIn: sculpting with the science of nature

Ruben Olguin, an artist working in earth materials and electronic media, creates earth sculptures of foraged materials that incorporate electronic components. He uses local history, geography, geology and contemporary electronic materials to contrast the old traditions of New Mexico with the impending modern world, allowing the natural world to interpret mechanical noise.

516 ARTS, the National Hispanic Cultural Center and Explora are teaming up with STEMarts Lab @ The PASEO to offer the hands-on art workshops about climate change to local schools as well as the general public with guest artists Abbey Hepner and Ruben Olguin from The PASEO festival.

In this hands-on workshop, students use natural materials found in our backyards to create their very own erosion sculptures that are visual representations of the effects of climate change on the Southwest. Students learn about earth systems, water conservation, rock types from Rio Grande Valley, hydrologic systems, erosion, and impacts of human activity on the regional hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere and atmosphere. For ages 5 & up.

Workshops for the general public:

Ruben olguin: Saturday, november 21, 2-4pm (ages 5 & up) Abbey hepner: Saturday, December 5, 2-4pm (ages 7 & up)

LoCATion: Explora, 1701 Mountain Rd. NW, AlbuquerqueFee: $5 per workshop • Pre-registration required Info/Register: 505-224-8341 • www.explora.us

Abbey Hepner, bioluminescent bacteria painted on petri dishes • Ruben Olguin, Songs of Our Fathers: Sound Pots, 2014, foraged micaceous clay, microphones, speakers

Fee: $50 general / $40 for 516 ARTS membersInfo/register: 505-242-1445, [email protected]

In conjunction with his exhibition Rise at 516 ARTS, artist Beau Carey invites artists to join him in the Ojito Wilderness for a winter field studio session where ideas, concepts and techniques can be exchanged in an informal and wild setting. This excursion is open to adult artists of all levels and media. It is an opportunity for individual artists to explore working in a complex and wild environment and allowing that environment to influence their work. Participants should bring art making supplies of their choice, hiking boots, warm clothes, snacks and plenty of water. Pre-registration required. Meet to caravan from 516 ARTS.

Explora and 516 ARTS present this hands-on workshop offering students the opportunity to use projection art and their imaginations to visualize and communicate climate change solutions. Students explore climate impacts on diverse ecosystems and allow that to inspire and inform their ideas. Then using projection art tools, they paint, animate and project their visualizations live onto buildings. For ages 12 and up. Special thanks to Sube, Inc. and STEMarts Lab.

Beau Carey has been an artist-in-residence at Redline Denver, the Arctic Circle in Norway, and Denali National Park in Alaska where he was the park’s first wintertime resident. Working both at remote locations in the field and at home in the studio, his work explores historical and contemporary issues surrounding landscape painting and land use.

Agnes Chavez is an interdisciplinary, new media artist working with data visualization, sound and projection art. She creates participatory environments and educational workshops, exploring our relationship to science, nature and technology

ADULT WoRkShoP: Saturday, December 5, 8am-5pm

BeAu cArey: ojito Wilderness excursion

YoUTh WoRkShoP: Wednesday, December 9, 4-8pm

Agnes cHAvez: Projecting climate change

Beau Carey in residence in the Arctic Circle, photo by Cedra Wood Headshot by Rhiannon Mercer

STEMarts Lab@The PASEO workshop 2014. Projecting Particles Instructors: Markus Dorninger and Agnes Chavez. Students: Haley Rausch, Jasmine Stoner, Ryan and Dylan Cox. 21

LoCATion: Explora, 1701 Mountain Rd. NW, AlbuquerqueFee: $5 • Pre-registration required Info/Register: 505-224-8341 • www.explora.us

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AUGUST

Saturday, August 29, 6-8pm oPEninG: Off the Charts & Knew Normal, music by BaBa, at 516 ARTS

Saturday, August 29, 6-8pm oPEninG: Control Room / Regeneration, at Central Features

SEPTEMBER

Thursday, September 10, 1-4pm SYMPoSiUM: Invisibility, Uncertainty, Art and Landscape, at ABQ UNM CityLab

Thursday, September 10, 5:30pm kEYnoTE TAlk: Mel Chin: The Potential Project, at UNM Keller Hall

Friday, September 11, 2pm RoUnDTAbLE: Discussion with Mel Chin, at 516 ARTS

Friday, September 11, 6pm ARTIST TAlk: Abbey Hepner: Control Room, at Central Features

Saturday, September 12, 4-8pm FESTiVAL: Downtown Block Party, on Central between 5th & 6th

Friday, September 18, 8pm SCREEninG: Chasing Ice, outdoors on Civic Plaza

Sunday, September 20, 10am-3pm SPECiAL EVEnT: CiQloVíA, on 4th St. between Civic Plaza & the Rail Yards

OCTOBER

Saturday, October 3, 2pm TALK: Collecting Environmental Art, with Nancy Zastudil & guests at 516 ARTS

Thursday, October 8, 7pm SCREEninG: Waste Land, at NHCC, Bank of America Theater

Thursday, October 29, 6pm ARTIST TAlk: Andrea Polli: Public Art and Activism, at 516 ARTS

NOVEMBER

Sat. & Sun., November 7 & 8, 1pm SCREEninG: No Impact Man, at The Guild Cinema

Thursday, November 12, 6pm TAlk: Ruben Arvizu: Cultural Perspectives in the Global Quest for Water, at NHCC

Saturday, November 14, 2pm PERFoRMAnCE: Climate Change Theatre Action, at Tricklock Performance Laboratory

Saturday, November 21, 2-4pm YoUTh WoRkShoP: Ruben Olguin: Sculpting with the Science of Nature, at Explora

Saturday, November 21, 6-8pm oPEninG: Scott Greene: Bewilderness & Beau Carey: Rise, at 516 ARTS

DECEMBER

Thursday, December 3, 6pm ARTiSTS’ TALk: Scott Greene & Beau Carey, + poetry by Melisa Garcia, at 516 ARTS

Saturday, December 5, 8am-5pm ExCURSion: Beau Carey: Ojito Wilderness Workshop

Saturday, December 5, 2-4pm YoUTh WoRkShoP: Abbey Hepner: BioArt, at Explora

Wednesday, December 9, 4-8pm YoUTh WoRkShoP: Agnes Chavez: Projecting Climate Change, at Explora

Thursday, December 10, 6pm PoP-UP DInnER: Chef James Campbell Caruso, at 516 ARTS

Mel Chin, from Bank of the Sun installation, 2014

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