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Spring Reception, Saturday, March 22, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm

Professor Meggan Gould, who teaches photography within the Department of Art at UNM and serves as the Associate Dean of Research, is a contemporary photographer whose work often explores the rhetorical, semiotic, and material ways in which photography and its tools—namely, cameras—have been socially constructed. She places under the lens facets of camera technology that usually reside comfortably outside the resultant image—the varying structures and functions of viewfinders, film frame counters, and camera icons—questioning the particular ways in which these seemingly natural and neutral attributes shape the photographer, and the medium itself.

During the creation of her series “7 Pictures Remaining,” the artist’s images of camera counters took on a surprising new dimension when she discovered that many of the cameras documented contained rolls of undeveloped film. Gould opened nearly all the cameras in the collection and discovered hundreds of never-before-seen images residing within. This yielded fascinating discoveries and intimate moments connecting cameras, and former camera owners, to their images, effectively operating as a “shadow archive” within the California Museum of Photography (CMP) technology collection. A selection of prints made from these anonymous images are presented alongside Gould’s own work, attributing personal histories and biographies to these otherwise mute objects.

The Ghost Sonata (Spöksonaten), written by August Strindberg, premiered in 1907, tells the story of a young student who, after spending the whole night rescuing the wounded in a fire, meets a mysterious man named Hummel. Hummel introduces him to a seemingly bright world of values when he enters an aristocratic house. Once inside, he gradually becomes disillusioned when he finds a reality full of betrayal, illness and ghosts.

Directed by Alejandro Tomás Rodriguez
April 25, 26, and May 1, 2, and 3 at 7:30pm, April 27 at 2:00pm
Rodey Theatre
$15 General, $12 Faculty & Seniors, $10 Staff & Students

The Ghost Sonata (Spöksonaten), written by August Strindberg, premiered in 1907, tells the story of a young student who, after spending the whole night rescuing the wounded in a fire, meets a mysterious man named Hummel. Hummel introduces him to a seemingly bright world of values when he enters an aristocratic house. Once inside, he gradually becomes disillusioned when he finds a reality full of betrayal, illness and ghosts. Directed by Alejandro Tomás Rodriguez.

Ghost Sonata
By August Strindberg
Directed by Alejandro Tomás Rodriguez
April 25, 26, and May 1, 2, and 3 at 7:30pm, April 27 at 2:00pm
Rodey Theatre
$15 General, $12 Faculty & Seniors, $10 Staff & Students

“Composing//Sensing the Stage Space”
Free workshops with Donna Jewell and UNM ARTSLab
Saturday, April 26 at 10am at UNM ARTSLab

Donna Jewell will lead participants through exercises exploring how the stage space can be used to create dynamic dance works. Professional dancers will demonstrate improvisational prompts, and attendees will have the opportunity to create their own improvisational scores.

ARTSLab Director Stewart Skylar Copeland and graduate researcher Sarah Bennett-Davidson will demonstrate innovative technology used at the NM Dance Hackathon. Participants will learn how to access and utilize real-time data for live collaborations with dancers and explore the potential for future dance and technology projects.

This event is free and open to the public. New Mexico Dance Hackathon is sponsored by UNM ARTSLab. This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Register at artslab.unm.edu/research/dance-hackathon/

Risky Moves is the Spring Student Choreography Concert featuring new dance works by UNM students. The Student Choreography Concert provides emerging choreographers a chance to put their training to the test and experience the vulnerable and empowering process of sharing their work with the public. Students also develop various skills involved in producing dance performance, including leading a rehearsal process, working with lighting designers, writing about their creative work, and participating in marketing.

Artist directors Dr. Ninoska M’Bewe Escobar and Jessica Wilson
May 2, 3, 8, 9, and 10 at 7:30pm, and May 4 at 2:00pm
Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance
$12 General, $10 Faculty & Seniors, $8 Staff & Students