Fillip

Means of Production: Sound, Silence, and Process with Guillermo Galindo & Raven Chacon
June 25th, 2020

Join Fillip and artists Guillermo Galindo and Raven Chacon on Thursday, June 25, at 7pm for free, online Means of Production workshop.

Reflecting on the current socio-political moment from California and New Mexico respectively, Galindo and Chacon will discuss sound and silence as a means and method for engaged artistic production.

Recent projects by both artists—Chacon’s Manifest Destiny opera Sweet Land, produced in collaboration with The Industry this past March, and Galindo’s monumental Border Cantos project, produced in collaboration with photographer Richard Misrach, and Echo Exodus project for documenta 14—reveal ways in which sound can be used to explore memory and lived experience. In this conversation, Galindo and Chacon will unpack the concept of a score and performance, discussing ways sound can function as weapon, instruments can become totemic sculptures, and silence offers a tool for (non)violent engagement.

• Entrance is free but an RSVP is required.

About the Series

Means of Production is an occasional series of free, theoretical workshops investigating the material conditions of contemporary artistic practice. Organized alongside our Reading Group series, these ongoing workshops address issues of labour, infrastructure, and production in a small, seminar-style environment.

About the Artists

• Guillermo Galindo is a Post-Mexican composer and artist currently based in San Francisco. Galindo’s artistic practice emerges at the crossroads of instrumental composition, live improvisation, and ritual, redefining the conventional limits between between art, politics, spirituality, and social awareness. His work has been shown at documenta 14, the CTM Festival (Berlin), and the High Line (NY, forthcoming) and has been featured on BBC Outlook, NHK World, Radio Télévision Suisse, NPR, and CBC, and in Art in America and the New York Times.

• Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist currently based in Albuquerque, NM. Chacon’s work as solo or as a member of Postcommodity, has been shown at The Kennedy Center, Whitney Biennial, and documenta 14, among many others. Chacon has taught hundreds of students to write string quartets as part of the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project and is the recipient of the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition.