Resident Faculty Lecture:
Naomi Rincón-Gallardo
Type
Lecture
Series
Barbara Lee Lecture Series
Location
Old Dominion Fresco Barn
Skowhegan Campus
39 Art School Rd
Madison, ME 04950
Date
7:30 PM
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Naomi Rincón-Gallardo. Verses of Filth. 2021. 23'54''. Photo: Enrique Macías
Naomi Rincón-Gallardo. Verses of Filth. 2021. 23'54''. Video still. Courtesy the artist.
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Naomi Rincón-Gallardo. Verses of Filth. 2021. 23'54''. Photo: Enrique Macías
Naomi Rincón-Gallardo. Verses of Filth. 2021. 23'54''. Video still. Courtesy the artist.
Our Barbara Lee Lecture Series continues with “(Under)worldmaking: Giving birth to the bones,” a talk by Resident Faculty Naomi Rincón-Gallardo.
Naomi will lead an annotated screening of Verses of Filth followed by a talk that focuses on the artist’s notion of (Under)worldmaking.
She explains: “The title Verses of Filth refers to a Nahua mortuary chant called Tzocuicatl (chant of filth), which is part of a ritual rite with scatological allusions that accompanies the putrefaction of the body. In Verses of Filth, a bastardized Cihuateteo has become a scavenger/seeker digging up wasteland residues: body fragments and cultural debris. Along with a band of vultures, the scavenger recruits a brigade of arms that have been detached from their bodies and underworld creatures seeking touch, pleasure and revolt.”
About the artist:
Naomi Rincón-Gallardo is a Mexican artist and she was born in 1979 in North Carolina. She lives between Oaxaca and Mexico City. From a decolonial-queer perspective, her critical-mythical worldmaking addresses the creation of counter-worlds in neocolonial settings. In her work she integrates her interests in theater games, popular music, Mesoamerican cosmologies, speculative fiction, vernacular festivities and crafts, decolonial feminisms and queer of color critique. She holds a BFA degree in Visual Arts from ENPEG La Esmeralda, Mexico, a MA degree in Education, Culture Language and Identity from Goldmiths University of London, UK, and a PhD in Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.
