Join us for a First Friday Party featuring performances by artists Caleb Duarte and Guillermo Galindo.

These will be standing performances with limited seating. Guests will be able to hear the performance throughout the galleries. If you need accommodations or seats, please contact us at ias@ucsc.edu.

Free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!

Tres Terrenos Activation by Caleb Duarte
Multidisciplinary artist Caleb Duarte’s practice exists at the intersection of community building and collaboration, sculpture, installation, and theater. Commissioned by and featured in the Seeing through Stone exhibition on view at the IAS, the sculpture Tres Terrenos is a 13-foot model of a prison surveillance tower. Constructed with concrete walls and supported by compressed dirt, the sculpture was created during Caleb’s collaboration with members of the Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos (BU) community center. For this First Friday at the IAS, Duarte and collaborators Sonny Trujillo and Frank Alejandrez will activate Tres Terrenos through a series of gestures and actions.

Ojo / Eye Activation by Guillermo Galindo
Experimental composer and artist Guillermo Galindo creates objects made of discarded materials and personal items in the desert along the United States–Mexico border. In this unique performance at the IAS, Galindo will activate Ojo / Eye, 2015, a work that consists of a bicycle wheel the Border Patrol ran over to prevent its use. Galindo has refashioned it into an antenna for a theremin, an instrument that produces sound when one interferes with its electromagnetic field. The instrument’s inventor, Leon Theremin, developed the technology into an electronic motion-sensing alarm system implemented in Alcatraz and some United States prisons.

The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour.

Event webpage: https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences-10/

Image by Mickey Ta.