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What: Ink/Body/Rain is an evening length dance work showcasing original choreography from Rujeko Dumbutshena and Justice Miles. The first half of the work is choreographed by Rujeko Dumbutshena and is titled “DE RERUM NATURA – the way things are”” and the second half of the work is choreographed/arranged by Justice Miles and is titled Ink on Cotton.
When: Aug 31 and Sept 1 at 7:30pm and Sept 2 at 2:00pm

Where: Rodey Theatre at the University of New Mexico

More Info: Call (505) 277-4332 or go to http://theatre.unm.edu

Tickets: Ticket prices are $12 General, $10 UNM Faculty and Seniors, $8 UNM Staff & Students. Available in person at UNM Ticket Offices, by phone at (505) 925-5858, or online at www.unmtickets.com.

Ink/Body/Rain is an evening of original dance works by MFA candidates Rujeko Dumbutshena and Justice Miles.

The first part of the work is choreographed by Rujeko Dumbutshena and is titled “DE RERUM NATURA – the way things are.” Zimbabwean born Dumbutshena explores the strength, struggle, resistance and resilience of women and African women in particular through a style that echoes the foundations of traditional African dance in a contemporary way. Dumbutshena’s work “DE RERUM NATURA – the way things are” was created with the idea that ritual and performance can be in harmony with, or in opposition to “the way things are.”

The second part of the work is titled Ink on Cotton and is choreographed by Justice Miles. Ink on Cotton explores images throughout African American history from the 1800s to present day with stylistic influences from contemporary dance and flamenco. Miles, through the lens of a young biracial (African American and Norwegian American) female choreographer, presents an exploration of the beauty and complexities of semiotics when black and white worlds collide.

Music from the America’s Concert Series presents Aleck Karis, piano.

All-Debussy program on his 100th death anniversary.

Aleck Karis has performed recitals, chamber music, and concertos across the Americas, Europe, Japan, and China. As the pianist of the new music ensemble Speculum Musicae he has participated in over a hundred premieres and performed at major American and European festivals. His appearances with orchestra have ranged from concertos by Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin to those of Stravinsky, Messiaen and Carter. His six solo discs on Bridge Records include Chopin/Carter/Schumann, Mozart, Stravinsky, Cage, Feldman/Webern/Wolpe, and Poulenc. His two discs on Roméo Records are Music of Philip Glass and Late Chopin. His recording of Feldman’s last work, “Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello” was listed as one of the top 25 classical releases of 2015 in the New York Times and one of the 10 best contemporary releases of 2015 in the Sunday Times of London. Of his 2015 Poulenc disc, Icon magazine wrote: “Aleck Karis plays with dazzling, radiant, detail throughout”. His most recent recording on Bridge, with Erik Carlson, is For John Cage, by Morton Feldman. He has studied with William Daghlian, Artur Balsam and Beveridge Webster, and is a distinguished professor of music at the University of California, San Diego.

UNM Art Museum, in collaboration with the College of Fine Arts and For Freedoms, invites you to join us for our 50 State Initiative kick-off event and keynote talk by artist Aram Han Sifuentes. Focusing on the artist’s role in civic and democratic participation, Aram will set the stage for a semester-long series of programs and political activations organized by UNM students in the Albuquerque community. Join us in the Museum after the talk (6:30 – 8:00pm) to meet the artist, add your voice to the For Freedoms conversation and if you have not done so already – register to vote.

Aram Han Sifuentes’s art practice situates itself at the intersection of fiber, social practice, performance, and pedagogy. At the core, she creates socially engaged and materially rich projects in an ‘art world’ environment that are available and accessible for those who are disenfranchised, particularly for dispossessed immigrants of color. She confronts social and racial injustices against the disenfranchised and riff off of official institutions and bureaucratic processes to reimagine new, inclusive, and humanized systems of civic engagement and belonging. She does this by creating participatory and active environments where safety, play, and skill-sharing are emphasized. And even though many of her projects are collaborative and communal in nature, they incite and highlight individual’s experiences, politics, and voice. Much of her communal work revolves around sharing skills as a point of connection. Often, sewing techniques are shared to create multiethnic and intergenerational sewing circles, which become a place for empowerment, subversion and protest.

Aram Han Sifuentes is a fiber, social practice, and performance artist who works to claim spaces for immigrant and disenfranchised communities. Her work often revolves around skill sharing, specifically sewing techniques, to create multiethnic and intergenerational sewing circles, which become a place for empowerment, subversion and protest. Her work has been exhibited at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (Chicago, Illinois), Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago, Illinois), Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, Missouri), Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia, PA), Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience (Seattle, WA), Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum (Seoul, South Korea), and the Design Museum (London, UK).

Central Features is proud to welcome Humberto Moro to Albuquerque for the 2018 Visiting Curator Series. As part of the program, in addition to studio visits with local artists, each curator gives a public talk about their practice, including the artists and the sociopolitical contexts that shape their work. This talk will take place at Tamarind Institute.

Humberto Moro is Curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, GA, where he has organized solo exhibitions by Glen Fogel, Mario Navarro, Oliver Laric, Liliana Porter, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Pia Camil, Mariana Castillo Deball and Tom Bur. Moro is Curator of New Proposals and SAMPLE, sections at Zona MACO, Mexico City. He was most recently Dirrector and Curator at large for Colección Diéresis, Guadalajara. He was previously Assistant Curator and collection ordinator at Museo Jumex, Mexico City. He has curated exhibition projects such as Residual Historica Haunting at Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York; Overburden at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York; Measuring the Distance by Gonzalo Lebrija at La Casa Encendida, Madrid; and Witness of The Century at Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), Guadalajara. He was recipient of the Estancia Tabacaler research fellowship for Latin-American curator 2016, Madrid, Spain, and was part of the 7th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, in Gwangju, South Korea. He has written about the work of Jose Dávila, Guillermo Mora, Ana Tiscornia and Tom Burr, and published the book Possibility of Disaster by Gonzalo Lebrij, among others.