"Caesura" Live Performance with Raven Chacon & Guillermo Galindo
Friday, August 30, 6-8pm MST at RedLine Contemporary Art Center.
Free for RedLine Members, $5 suggested donation for non-members.
About "Caesura"
“Caesura” is a composition by artists Raven Chacon & Guillermo Galindo, 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.
”Caesura” is a piece for percussion created from detritus sourced from old pieces of railroad infrastructure. Featuring percussion by Shawn King of the Denver-based band DeVotchKa.
Raven Chacon & Guillermo Galindo are exhibiting artists in our current exhibition, The Other Side of the Tracks, on display through October 6, 2024. Curated by Jorge Rojas.
Learn more about the artists & exhibition below!
Artist Raven Chacon
About Raven Chacon
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation.
As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Renaissance Society, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, REDCAT, Vancouver Art Gallery, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, and The Kennedy Center. As a member of Postcommodity from 2009-2018, he co-created artworks presented at the Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, Carnegie International 57, as well as the 2-mile long land art installation Repellent Fence.
A recording artist over the span of 22 years, Chacon has appeared on more than eighty releases on various national and international labels. In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his composition Voiceless Mass. His 2020 Manifest Destiny opera Sweet Land, co-composed with Du Yun, received critical acclaim from The LA Times, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, and was named 2021 Opera of the Year by the Music Critics Association of North America.
Since 2004, he has mentored over 300 high school Native composers in the writing of new string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). Chacon is the recipient of the United States Artists fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital award in Visual Arts, The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition, the Bemis Center’s Ree Kaneko Award, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2022), the Pew Fellow-in-Residence (2022), and is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow.
His solo artworks are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum and National Museum of the American Indian, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, and various private collections.
About Guillermo Galindo
The extent of the work of experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist and visual media artist Guillermo Galindo, redefines the conventional limits between music, the art of music composition and the intersections between art disciplines, politics, humanitarian issues, spirituality and social awareness.
His acoustic work includes two commissioned orchestral compositions by the OFUNAM (Mexico University Orchestra) and the Oakland Symphony Orchestra and Choir, solo instrumental works, two operas, sonic sculptures, visual arts, computer interaction works, electro-acoustic music, film, instrument building, three-dimensional immersive installations and live improvisation.
Galindo’s graphic scores and three-dimensional sculptural cyber-totemic sonic objects have been shown at major museums and art biennials in America, Europe and Asia including (amongst others) documenta14 (2017), Pacific Standard Time (2017) and it is now part of the permanent collections of The Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, The Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Florida, LACMA in Los Angeles, California and The National Gallery in Washington DC.
His work has been featured on: BBC Outlook (London), NHK World (Japan),Vice Magazine (London), HFFDK (Germany), RTS (Switzerland), NPR (U.S.), CBC (Canada), Art in America (U.S), Reforma Newspaper (Mexico), CNN, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times (U.S.).
Galindo’s collaborations includes artists, performers and writers such as Anne Carson, Guillermo Gomez Peña, Michael McClure, the Paul Dresher Ensemble and the Kronos Quartet.
Selected venues that have exhibited Border Cantos include: The Cantor Museum, Stanford, California (2021), The High Line, New York, (2021), Westmorland Museum, PA (2021), The Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston (2019), Cornell FIne Are Museum, Florida (2019), Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas (2017), Pace Gallery, New York (2017) and the San Jose Museum of Art (2016).
Guillermo Galindo presently teaches at the California College of Arts in San Francisco.
About The Other Side of the Tracks Exhibition
The Other Side of the Tracks, a traveling exhibition, features the work of nine national and internationally recognized contemporary artists who come from these communities, whose voices have been excluded from the triumphal tales of the track.
This approach challenges the traditional narrative about trains and promotes a more inclusive and accurate view of the subject.
