Music, Emotion, and Fish with Dr. David Bashwiner

Ellsworth Gallery
215 E Palace Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Opening: Saturday April 10 – 10am-6pm – Artist in Attendance 3-6pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 17
Closing: Saturday, May 15

Songs of Tempestuous Rising and Falling is an embodiment of the monsters that we live among that shape our landscapes. It’s a mediation on our relationships to place, to violence, to harmony, and disharmony. Frequencies embedded into land leave an impression. In exploring the existing resonance of place as well as resonance imposed, this work offers moments to reflect on the consequence of technological and extractive projects. This exhibition of work by Dylan McLaughlin provides a space of reverence and reflection. A translation of phenomena we can experience directly.

Dylan McLaughlin is a sound/video artist currently working in forms of resilience to and deconstruction of tensions in relation to violence embedded inland. Looking to sites of extraction, his work explores sonic forms of witness and implication. In his multi-media installation, interactive, and performative works, McLaughlin looks to engage the poetics and politics of landscape formation and human effect. These works respond to place, using materials that speak from landscapes, incorporating technology that activates or provides a container from which to experience. He is born of the Diné (Navajo) people. McLaughlin received his BFA in New Media Art from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is currently completing his MFA in Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico.

ENSEMBLE VERTEBRAE (France)
Olivia Abreu, Flutes | Camille Emaille, percussion | Anna Paolina Hasslacher, piano

Ensemble Vertebræ seeks to transcend boundaries with a multi-disciplinary artistic exchange based on the broad cultural backgrounds of its members, coming from different countries of Europe and Latin America. Founded in 2009 by the flautist Olivia Abreu and the pianist Anna Paolina Hasslacher, Ensemble Vertebræ presents chamber works for various formations. Its creative process is based on searching, premiering and furthering contemporary innovative repertoire in musical performances, projects in collaboration with other artistic disciplines, didactic concerts for children and young people, lectures and pedagogical workshops, as well as working closely with composers for novel pieces. Original projects of musical and pedagogical value have been presented in different countries of Europe and America, and in various contexts and festivals, such as the Cervantino International Festival (Guanajuato, Mexico) in 2015, “Music from the Americas Concert Series” from the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, USA) in 2017, the 28th Contemporary music Festival in Santiago, Chile in 2018, and the 2018-2019 IGNM season in Zurich and Basel, one of the most important international organisations for the promotion of contemporary music. As a result of the constant collaboration of Ensemble Vertebræ with the composers, the participation of the ensemble in the recording of “Son et Sens”, CD with music by Iradj Sahbaï, stands out.

Pregúntale que si conoció a Guadalupe Terreros (2017) / Rodrigo Valdez Hermoso (Mexcio, 1978)
La herencia de Matilde Arcángel (2017) | Juan José Barcénas (Mexico, 1982)
Action painting (2017) | José Luis Hurtado (Mexico, 1975)
Relectura (2017) | David Hernández Ramos (Mexico, 1975)
…sin una sola yerba para detener el aire (2017) | Víctor Ibarra (1978)