Over the course of the summer, the UVU Museum of Art will host four performance art pieces. Featured artists include the Heartland Collective, Mitsu Salmon, Punto de Inflexión, and Jorge Rojas.
Saturday June 3: Heartland Collective - 1:00-3:30
Saturday June 24: Mitsu Salmon - 1:00-2:00
Tuesday July 18: Punto de Inflexión (Stephanie Garcia & Peter Hay) - 6:00-7:30
Tuesday August 1: Jorge Rojas - 6:00-7:30
Heartland Collective
Roundabout: Performance + Dance Party
Saturday June 3, 1:00 - 3:00
Heartland Collective
Heartland Collective collaborates with Utah Valley University’s Department of Dance to welcome the community to the new UVU Museum of Art. This roaming performance will move through the outdoor and indoor spaces of the historical Lakemount Manor, bringing energy and joy in celebration of belonging. The audience will be invited to follow the artists in a series of location specific performances that culminate in an outdoor dance party.
Mitsu Salmon
Somatic Tracing
Saturday June 24, 1:00 - 2:00
Mitsu Salmon, Somatic Tracing
Somatic Tracing explores the largely hidden history of Asian labor in the United States, particularly the work done on the transcontinental railroad. Dynamite, central to the labor of the Chinese railroad workers, was used to blast through mountains to make way for the railroad tracks. The gesture of the explosion is what initially drew Salmon, but rather than focusing on the violence of that act, she chose to use it to illustrate how a body can contain and release history, place, and affect to allow for transformation and re-imagining. Her large-scale movement-based color field paintings, performative objects, and soundscape echo this act.
Salmon collaborates with four Asian American performers—Hannah Huang; Jonathan Kim; Joshua Mora; Kellie St. Pierre and sound with Kikù Hibino—who embody and converge these stories with their own, creating elusive choreography and actions that are ever-transforming, fluctuating between the autonomous and collective.
Punto de Inflexión
Vanished Vibrations
Tuesday July 18th, 6:00 - 7:30
Punto de Inflexión, Vanished Vibrations
This site-specific dance performance is inspired by ongoing research on the embodied memory of female-gendered violence victims in the Mexican context. This project is supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, as well as the Center of Latin American Studies at the University of Utah and the Tinker Foundation.
Jorge Rojas
Circle piece
Tuesday August 1, 6:00 - 7:00
The UVU Museum of Art presents Circle Piece, a new performance by multidisciplinary artist Jorge Rojas. Designed for audience participation, Circle Piece involves meditation, dialogue, music, and responds to Rojas's site-specific installation Corn Mandala: Belonging, which the artist will utilize as a point of focus and departure. This performance is the fourth and last in The Art of Belonging performance series.
Jorge Rojas performing Tortilla Oracle at The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics' 2014 Encuentro: MANIFEST! Choreographing Social Movements in the Americas, Concordia University, Visual Arts Building, Montreal, Canada. Photo credit: Julio Pantoja