Christina Howard Sandoval: Reviving Ancestral Experiences

Tuesday, October 15, 2024, at 7:30 p.m., SKC Great Hall
Cycle: Art, film and decolonization
Topic: Christina Howard Sandoval: Reviving Ancestral Experiences
Screenings of documentation of works with interview

Christina Howard Sandoval reflects her origins in the Chumash tribe from the southern parts of the Californian coast in her work both thematically, dealing with the influence of Spanish missionaries on the change of their cultural matrices, and in the most practical way, introducing in her works indigenous experiences of working with various natural materials, such as grass and willow twig. Her works question the limits of representation through art, the ways in which cultural values ​​and competences are established, as well as the ways in which physical movement is controlled through landscapes considered natural. In the installations, he combines video and sculptures with live performances, in the form of happenings or performances. Just as her projects often conclude with performative acts, they also begin, according to her, with physical movement through the spaces that will be thematized, and by putting in the roles of various actors who participated in the formation of such characteristics of theirs as they encounter at that moment.

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