CANCELLED: Speaking Tributaries at Sausal Creek

**Regrettably, this event has been cancelled due to a family illness. Visit www.speakingtributaries.com for updates on re-scheduled performances.

Site-specific installation and performance at Sausal Creek, Oakland featuring Ana Labastida, Jesus Landin-Torrez III, Kate Lee Short, and Sadie Harmon

At one of the most important estuaries in the Bay Area, the day to nighttime special outdoor event is inspired by local memories of the water in Sausal Creek. The artists approached the project with an interest in how poetic, aesthetic and phenomenological strategies invite a community to have an intimate experience with populations and issues that are subtle, hidden, and overlooked. These systems, such as our water supply, our elders, and our public artistic expression are also vital to a healthy community.

Speaking Tributaries will present an interactive art and sound event highlighting a year’s worth of research, community interventions, and conversations around memory, water, acceptance and loss. This event will take place at Dimond Park in Oakland, alongside Sausal Creek, in collaboration with Salem Lutheran Home. Memory games will provide opportunities for inter-generational dialog and exchange. Additionally, there will be guided hikes, a site-specific sound and ice installation, and an archive of objects and text. The purpose of this event is to provide multiple unique perspectives on topics not often presented in conjunction with one another. Speaking Tributaries is made up of the artist team of Ana Labastida, Jesus Landin-Torrez, and Sadie Harmon, with support from Kate Lee Short. It is made possible by a generous grant from the Open Circle Foundation and is sponsored by Fractured Atlas. Our Community Partners are Salem Lutheran Home, Friends of Sausal Creek, and Oakland Parks and Recreation.

Note: Street parking is recommended in this mainly residential area. The west entrance at Wellington Street, walking toward Lions Pool, is closest to reaching the project site.

Ana Labastida is a Mexican artist based in San Francisco. She is the lead artist for Speaking Tributaries. Her practice spans site-specific installation, social practice, mixed media sculpture and projection. She is interested in exploring poetic strategies that deal with the forsaken, the intangible, the subtle, and the overlooked. Ana holds an MFA in Social Practice from California College of the Arts. She has exhibited in Mexico, Spain and the United States. Her work has been reviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle.

 

 

Jesus Landin-Torrez III is an Alaskan artist currently based in San Francisco. He received his BFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Alaska Anchorage and an MFA in Social Practice from CCA. He has exhibited at the SF MoMA, the Performance Art International Conference at Stanford University, The Anchorage Museum, and The Southern Graphics Conference. He is a multi-disciplinary, time-based artist who explores ideas of ritualistic practice and intimacy around memory and death. He is interested in the places and moments in life where the metaphysical is physically channeled by ritual and how the abstract telling of that narrative through metaphor can bring better understanding to larger issues.

Kate Lee Short is an Oakland-based artist. She explores states of unrest through the juxtaposition of conflicting elements. Whether through imposed intimacy or deceptive seduction, Kate’s work weaves together space, light, sound, and objects to challenge the viewer to be the ultimate arbiter of their experience.          

 

 

 

 

 

Sadie Harmon is an artist, educator, and writer based in Oakland. In 2013, she completed an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art at California College of the Arts and currently works with the elderly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. She has presented multi-disciplinary events and projects at museums, galleries, and alternative art spaces in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Chicago. Her recent work examines the ways in which social, architectural and linguistic change relate to aging and death.