¿’Onde va la lancha? : Christy Gast performs at Gertrude Contemporary

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Christy Gast: ¿’Onde va la lancha? 

Date: Wednesday 13 July 2016
Location: Gertrude Contemporary
Time: 6pm for a 6.30pm start, finishing approximately at 8.30pm.

Discipline, Ensayos, and Gertrude Contemporary are pleased to present ¿’Onde va la lancha?  a performance by artist, Christy Gast. The evening will be convened by Camila Marambio. The performance is preceded by a lecture by Chilean art historian Carla Macchiavello entitled ‘We were always fueguinos’.

¿’Onde va la lancha? is a 25-minute lecture-performance by New York–based artist, Christy Gast. Gast provides a live voice-over for a video projection that was filmed in the fjords of Tierra del Fuego. We find ourselves inside an artisanal fishing boat during a storm, its creaking and rocking provides the rhythm for a song; the audience joins in. We are under water with a whale. The whale whispers, we learn its song. We are underwater collecting shellfish; we sing the forgotten song of the west wind. The lecture begins as a conventional artist’s talk, but as the camera dives below water the tone changes—the audience and the artist are immersed in the world of the fjord and must come to terms with its inhabitants, past and present.

 

Biography:

Christy Gast is an artist based in New York whose work across media reflects her interest in issues of economics and the environment. Gast’s work stems from extensive research and site visits to places that she thinks of as ‘contested landscapes.’ These range from beaver-ravaged sub-Antarctic forests, to a mountain in Phoenix undergoing a politicised name change, to the extensively engineered canals and dikes around Lake Okeechobee that divert water from the Everglades. She is interested in places where there is evidence of conflict in human desires, and she traces, translates or mirrors those conflicts through her art practice. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Performa, Artists Space, Harris Lieberman Gallery and Regina Rex in New York; the Perez Art Museum of Miami, Bass Museum of Art, de la Cruz Collection, Locust Projects, Casa Lin and Gallery Diet in Miami; as well as Mass MoCA, the American University Museum, L.A.C.E., High Desert Test Sites, Centro Cultural Matucana 100 and the Kadist Foundation Paris.

 

Image: Christy Gast, ¿’Onde va la lancha?, 2016. Video still (rough seas).

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