Artist Talks at PICA
Panel Discussion: Alka domo & Flowing Like Waterfalls with artists Seba Calfuqueo, Malcolm Peacock, Vo Vo and moderated by Derek Franklin
Panel Discussion: Alka domo & Flowing Like Waterfalls, 2023, PICA (2023) by Artistic work by Seba Calfuqueo, and panel discussion photos by Ali GradischerPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
Artist panel discussion
In conjunction with the video installation Alka domo and performance Flowing Like Waterfalls, this panel discussion featured Seba Calfuqueo, artist Malcolm Peacock, radical educator Vo Vo, and was moderated by Converge 45 Artistic Director Derek Franklin.
Panel Discussion: Alka domo & Flowing Like Waterfalls, 2023, PICA (2023) by Artistic work by Seba Calfuqueo, and panel discussion photos by Ali GradischerPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
Co-presented with Converge 45
Seba Calfuqueo's Alka domo & Flowing Like Waterfalls was curated by Christian Viveros-Faun and organized by Converge 45 with its 2023 citywide exhibition Social Forms: Art As Global Citizenship on August 29, 2023.
Flowing Like Waterfalls & Alka domo by Seba Calfuqueo, 2023, PICA (2023) by Artist work by Seba Calfuqueo, and exhibition photos by Mario GallucciPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
About Converge 45
Converge 45 is a non-profit arts organization that produces a Contemporary Arts Biennial in Portland, Oregon. In collaboration with the dynamic arts community in Portland, Converge 45 develops a city-wide exhibition across the metropolitan area every two years.
Panel Discussion: Alka domo & Flowing Like Waterfalls, 2023, PICA (2023) by Artistic work by Seba Calfuqueo, and panel discussion photos by Ali GradischerPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
Let's meet the panel
Get to know each featured panelist
About Seba Calfuqueo
Seba Calfuqueo are from Mapuche origin. Their work appeals to their inheritance to propose a critical reflection on the social, cultural, and political status of the Mapuche subject in contemporary Chilean society and Latin America.
Panel Discussion: Alka domo & Flowing Like Waterfalls, 2023, PICA (2023) by Artistic work by Seba Calfuqueo, and panel discussion photos by Ali GradischerPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
About Seba Calfuqueo's Alka domo
In Alka domo, Seba Calfuqueo holds a hollowed-out tree trunk above their head at places of personal history and significance to the artist as well as at various public sites, representing the complex interaction between Mapuche and Chilean culture.
Panel Discussion: Alka domo & Flowing Like Waterfalls, 2023, PICA (2023) by Artistic work by Seba Calfuqueo, and panel discussion photos by Ali GradischerPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
About Seba Calfuqueo's Flowing Like Waterfalls
Flowing Like Waterfalls was a 20-minute performance that approached the power of water's fluidity as a means to explore the body, gender, sexuality, and the relationship of water with life, forests, and ecosystems.
About Malcolm Peacock
Malcolm Peacock is an artist living and working in New Orleans, LA. He is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines the emotional and psychic spaces of Black subjects. Peacock is particularly interested in the intricacies of intimacy.
More about Malcolm Peacock
He earned a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, in 2016 and an MFA from Rutgers University, New Jersey, in 2019. He has shown with Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, Terrault Contemporary, Baltimore, and Rose Arcade, Baltimore, among other venues.
About Vo Vo
Vo Vo is a radical educator of 13 years in over 20 countries in racial justice, intercultural communication, trauma-informed care, de-escalation, and transformative justice.
Panel Discussion: Alka domo & Flowing Like Waterfalls, 2023, PICA (2023) by Artistic Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper, and panel discussion photos by Ali GradischerPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
More about Vo Vo
In their visual art, they primarily work in textiles, embroidery, weaving, and furniture building. Their installations seek to interrogate power dynamics, structural oppression, and challenge realities of imperialism, white supremacy, and colonization.
Panel Discussion: Alka domo & Flowing Like Waterfalls, 2023, PICA (2023) by Artistic work by Seba Calfuqueo, and panel discussion photos by Ali GradischerPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
About Derek Franklin
Derek Franklin is the Artistic Director of Converge 45 and director of SE Cooper Contemporary. Franklin is a former director at the artist-run space Soloway in Brooklyn, NY.
More about Derek Franklin
He received his BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and his MFA from Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University. Franklin's works have been presented in New York, Chicago, Portland, Mexico City, Copenhagen, and more.
Panel Discussion: Alka domo & Flowing Like Waterfalls, 2023, PICA (2023) by Artistic work by Seba Calfuqueo, and panel discussion photos by Ali GradischerPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
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