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A stone object from the Piedras del Padre Nazario collection, filmed in the laboratory of Puerto Rican archaeologist Reniel RodrÃguez, who has been studying their origins for years. The National Museum of Natural History has 4 of these stones in their collection, labeled as fakes. Image courtesy of the artists.
Since 2022, the artists Natalia Lassalle Morillo and SofÃa Gallisá Muriente have researched Puerto Rican collections and holdings at the Smithsonian Institution, examining their histories of accession, how they live in off-site storage, and the possibilities of mediating their return to the people and places they belong to. On the occasion of the VLC Forum 2024: Correct History*, the artists’ performance lecture Tactics of Transmission reflects on their experiences as unruly colonial subjects navigating the imperial archive, as well as on the historical gossip, findings, and revelations from their research process. A series of films emerging from this project are exhibited in Cooper Hewitt’s Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, on view November 2, 2024, through summer 2025.
This program is co-presented with The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center as part of Historias, a multi-year initiative exploring Latinx New York's transformative impact on the city. Launching in fall 2024, Historias is in partnership with the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York, with lead support from the Rauschenberg Foundation.
This program will be immediately followed by a closing reception and toast.
This event is part of the Vera List Center Forum 2024: Correct History*, please visit here for more information.
Presented by Vera List Center for Art and Politics at Schools of Public Engagement.
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SofÃa Gallisá Muriente is an artist whose practice resists colonial erasures and claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining. Her work deepens the subjectivity of historical narratives and contests dominant visual culture through long periods of research and multiple approaches to documentation. She employs text, image, and archive as medium and subject, exploring their poetic and political implications. Gallisá Muriente has been a fellow of the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), Cisneros Institute at the Museum of Modern Art and the Flaherty Seminar (New York), Puerto Rican Arts Initiative (San Juan), Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles); and participated in residencies with the Vieques Historical Archives (Florida), Alice Yard (Trinidad and Tobago), Fundación Ama Amoedo Residencia ArtÃstica (Uruguay), and Fonderie Darling (Montréal), among others. She has exhibited in documenta fifteen and at SAAVY Contemporary (Germany), MoMA, Whitney Museum, and Queens Museum (New York), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, as well as at the galleries Km 0.2 and Embajada (Puerto Rico). From 2014 to 2020, she co-directed the artist-run organization Beta-Local (Puerto Rico). In 2023, she was awarded the Latinx Artist Fellowship, and in 2024, she was awarded the United States Artist Fellowship.
Natalia Lassalle-Morillo is an artist and director whose research-based practice reconstructs memory and history through a transdisciplinary and participatory approach. Merging theatrical performance, experimental film, and installation, her work decentralizes canonical and colonial narratives through collaborations with non-professional performers, artists, and researchers. Natalia’s projects develop across localities and narratives, exploring Caribbean collective memory and the material and spiritual trajectories that have shaped families and relationships impacted by the imperialist oppression in that region. Bringing theater-based methodologies into the camera, she rehearses an alternative historiography that revises collective relationships to the past and simultaneously foregrounds the creation of new mythologies and fictions. Her work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as Amant (New York), Dazibao (Montréal), RedCat (Los Angeles), 22a Sesc_VideoBrasil Biennial (São Paulo), National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Hidrante (Puerto Rico, 2021), and Seoul Museum of Art (Korea). Natalia has been an artist fellow at the Smithsonian Institute, and participated in residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts (California), Amant (New York), Pioneer Works (New York), MassMoca (Massachusetts), and Fonderie Darling (Montréal). She holds an MFA in Theater Directing from CalArts and a BFA in Acting from New York University, and has taught film and performance at MICA, CalArts, and the Bard Microcollege. In 2023, she was awarded a Mellon Foundation Bridging the Divides Fellowship.
Warraba Weatherall is a Kamilaroi visual artist, Lecturer at Griffith University and PhD candidate, who is currently based in Brisbane. Weatherall’s artistic practice has a specific interest in archival repositories and structures, and the life of cultural materials and knowledges within these environments. He is also a lecturer for the Contemporary Australian Indigenous Arts (CAIA) degree at Griffith University’s, Queensland College of Art. Weatherall is passionate about shifting cultural norms within the Australian visual arts sector and contributes to the sector through artistic practice, education and curation.
