Breathing to the East - video performance
Greece in USA and The Right to Breath www.undercurrent.nyc 2019 / UNDERCURRENT / Art Platform / 70 John St. Brooklyn, NY
200 Main Street [an inventory of time and space]
200 Main Street [an inventory of time and place] is a participatory project built from objects, photographs, ideas, and personal accounts contributed by Los Altos residents about what home means to them. Drawing from original photographs, community contributions, and historical materials from local and regional museums, the project takes the form of a 30-foot-long photographic mural installed on a public wall. Composed to resemble the interior of a home, the mural stretches across the façade at 200 Main Street, Los Altos, California, transforming the site into a shared portrait of place and memory. The project was supported by Arts Los Altos and funded by the Los Altos Rotary Club. Full article by Heather Zimmerman
One Home Only
Over three weekends, the exterior walls of the Rinconada Library in Palo Alto becomes both canvas and stage for text, images, and pop-up performances exploring the many meanings of home. An author, a cellist, and two dancers will respond in their own creative languages, offering interpretations of home—its comforts, tensions, and contradictions. Each performance grows from a different constellation of words and images, revealing a shifting, multifaceted story of what home can be.
Curation and artworks by Martha Sakellariou
Performances:
Jennifer Lee spoken word , May 8th
Gaby Li, cello, May 15th,
Kristin Damrow Company, May 22nd
The project is funded by the Palo Alto Public Art program and supported by the Rinconada Library.
Coming up in downtown Los Altos soon! The work of researching and collecting information and material from the local community, residents and the History Museum has started months earlier. Composing an inventory of what consists of a town’s past and present, has been a challenge and a revelation. So many layers or history, personal storytelling, images, objects, people and places. Home is the only way of connecting all this and home is the only place where all can and has to fit in; not always in harmony and order. Home in every sense, size and notion is ultimately a dynamic place where mutual or opposing emotions, connections and disconnections, conflict and reconciliation, spread through layers of history and memory. Sharing one home, one place, one town, one country, one earth could be just that. Sharing space and time.