Altar and Sunset Vigil Performance LOS QUE MUEREN POR LA VIDA, NO PUEDEN LLAMARSE MUERTOS!
LOS QUE MUEREN POR LA VIDA, NO PUEDEN LLAMARSE MUERTOS!
6:00 PM | 104th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue
Caycedo will host LOS QUE MUEREN POR LA VIDA, NO PUEDEN LLAMARSE MUERTOS!, a vigil and rally in the context of the installation Genealogy of Struggle. Hosted in collaboration with The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics, the vigil honors fallen environmentalists across the world, offering a space to build historical environmental memory and prompting healing justice for those on the frontlines. An altar made with colorful votive candles and other natural offerings will be installed on 104th street between Madison and 5th Avenues, and will be lit at sunset in an act of coming together, with live music to honor the lives and sow the seeds of the fallen.
(ALL DAY) Participants are invited to contribute a ‘Pagamento’ or payback to the altar, as a gesture of reciprocity towards our common planet house. Pagamentos are welcome in the form of any natural entity such as soil, water, seed, compost, clay, flowers, herbs, fruits, minerals, stones, wood, fibers, or anything hand made with these components (please avoid animal, chemical, and plastic). After the event, the collective pagamento built during the vigil will be used to nurture the soil for a memorial tree, which will be planted in East Harlem.
Carolina Caycedo
b. 1978, London, England; raised in Colombia; lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Carolina Caycedo is a multimedia artist, whose interdisciplinary and collaborative practice engages a wide-range of media, such as performance, sculpture, installation, drawing, and video. Her work is directly engaged with the struggle for environmental justice, creating new artistic forms that are akin to public protests and rites of collective memorialization. The piece presented here belongs to a series (2017–ongoing) of site-specific drawings made directly on the walls of exhibition spaces. Taking the form of a family tree, it records the names of environmental activists who have been murdered in recent years, along with the places and dates of their deaths. Caycedo's native Colombia, together with Brazil and the Philippines, are the countries where environmentalists are killed most often.
Although the United States, the country where the artist lives, is absent from the list, this omission reflects a different form of persecution, that of the legal harassment of the protectors of water and land. With each iteration, Genealogy of Struggle adapts to different contexts, sadly adding new names to its leaves and roots during its exhibition.
Carolina Caycedo is a multimedia artist, with an interdisciplinary and collaborative practice in a wide range of media, such as performance, sculpture, installation, drawing and video. Her work is directly involved in the struggle for environmental justice, creating new art forms that are similar to public protests and collective commemoration rites. The piece presented here belongs to a series (2017–ongoing) of drawings made directly on the walls of the exhibition spaces. Taking the form of a family tree, it records the names of environmental activists who have been killed in recent years, and the places and dates of their deaths. His native Colombia, along with Brazil and the Philippines, are the countries with the most incidences. Although the United States, the country where he lives, is absent from the list, this omission reflects a different form of persecution, which is the legal harassment of water and land protectors. In each presentation, Genealogy of Resistance adapts to different contexts, unfortunately adding new names to its leaves and roots during its exhibition.
Read More6:00 PM | 104th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue
Caycedo will host LOS QUE MUEREN POR LA VIDA, NO PUEDEN LLAMARSE MUERTOS!, a vigil and rally in the context of the installation Genealogy of Struggle. Hosted in collaboration with The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics, the vigil honors fallen environmentalists across the world, offering a space to build historical environmental memory and prompting healing justice for those on the frontlines. An altar made with colorful votive candles and other natural offerings will be installed on 104th street between Madison and 5th Avenues, and will be lit at sunset in an act of coming together, with live music to honor the lives and sow the seeds of the fallen.
(ALL DAY) Participants are invited to contribute a ‘Pagamento’ or payback to the altar, as a gesture of reciprocity towards our common planet house. Pagamentos are welcome in the form of any natural entity such as soil, water, seed, compost, clay, flowers, herbs, fruits, minerals, stones, wood, fibers, or anything hand made with these components (please avoid animal, chemical, and plastic). After the event, the collective pagamento built during the vigil will be used to nurture the soil for a memorial tree, which will be planted in East Harlem.
Carolina Caycedo
b. 1978, London, England; raised in Colombia; lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Carolina Caycedo is a multimedia artist, whose interdisciplinary and collaborative practice engages a wide-range of media, such as performance, sculpture, installation, drawing, and video. Her work is directly engaged with the struggle for environmental justice, creating new artistic forms that are akin to public protests and rites of collective memorialization. The piece presented here belongs to a series (2017–ongoing) of site-specific drawings made directly on the walls of exhibition spaces. Taking the form of a family tree, it records the names of environmental activists who have been murdered in recent years, along with the places and dates of their deaths. Caycedo's native Colombia, together with Brazil and the Philippines, are the countries where environmentalists are killed most often.
Although the United States, the country where the artist lives, is absent from the list, this omission reflects a different form of persecution, that of the legal harassment of the protectors of water and land. With each iteration, Genealogy of Struggle adapts to different contexts, sadly adding new names to its leaves and roots during its exhibition.
Carolina Caycedo is a multimedia artist, with an interdisciplinary and collaborative practice in a wide range of media, such as performance, sculpture, installation, drawing and video. Her work is directly involved in the struggle for environmental justice, creating new art forms that are similar to public protests and collective commemoration rites. The piece presented here belongs to a series (2017–ongoing) of drawings made directly on the walls of the exhibition spaces. Taking the form of a family tree, it records the names of environmental activists who have been killed in recent years, and the places and dates of their deaths. His native Colombia, along with Brazil and the Philippines, are the countries with the most incidences. Although the United States, the country where he lives, is absent from the list, this omission reflects a different form of persecution, which is the legal harassment of water and land protectors. In each presentation, Genealogy of Resistance adapts to different contexts, unfortunately adding new names to its leaves and roots during its exhibition.
