"What you risk reveals what you value." Jeanette Winterson

The Caroline Dukes Memorial Artist Talk

March 3, 2017
I am so pleased that CONSTELACIONES will be delivering the Caroline Dukes Memorial Artist Talk for First Fridays at MAWA. Please join us and we will tell you about our remarkable art journey to the Atacama Desert!

In this multi-media performance presentation, CONSTELACIONES artist collective will present reflections on their trans-hemispheric works, including Lake Winnipeg, Wrapping Atacama, Return Atacama, and Echoes: North… North, that have been performed from Winnipeg to Santiago, Chile. The five artists explore ever-shifting constellations of collectivity, as they grapple with distance and difference across geographies, engaging artistic process as a risk-taking labour of care. CONSTELACIONES embodies collective healing through kinship and vulnerability—rejecting isolation, silence and disconnection in the face of trauma.

Drawing from interdisciplinary practices that include sculpture, performance, installation, sound and video, artists Roewan Crowe, Doris Difarnecio, Christina Hajjar, Monica Mercedes Martinez and Helene Vosters and engage in a process-based, trans-hemispheric collaboration. Among other projects, CONSTELACIONES travelled to Chile’s infamously storied Atacama Desert to install a large set of vibrant ceramic forms, created by Martinez, embodying stratified layers of Chilean history and diasporic and nomadic trajectories resulting from the 1973 coup. returnatacama.com