by Frances Phillips | May 3, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
As part of the Border Cantos project with photographer Richard Misrach and the San Jose Museum of Art, sound artist, composer, and performer Guillermo Galindo will perform on some of the musical instruments he created from objects found along the US-Mexico border. The...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 25, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
On Tuesday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m., City Arts and Lectures is featuring an onstage conversation with composer and sound artist Guillermo Galindo and photographer Richard Misrach at the Nourse theater in San Francisco. The project explores the landscape and human...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 19, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
Artists Guillermo Galindo and Richard Misrach have been collaborating with one another and with the San Jose Museum of Art to create Border Cantos, an exhibit with performances that documents the unseen, human reality of the US-Mexico borderlands. Misrach’s...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 30, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
On February 11, 7:30-9:00 p.m., the Exploratorium is presenting the first concert ever by an ensemble playing all instruments built from immigrants’ personal belongings found at the U.S. Mexican border. The instrument-maker, composer and musician Guillermo...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 15, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
Lead artist Erin McElroy and her collaborators at the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Tenants Together are kicking off their project, which is mapping evictions in Alameda County during the current escalation of rents and real estate in the greater Bay Area. The...
by Frances Phillips | Dec 19, 2015 | 2015, Media Arts, News
Composer and sound installation artist Guillermo Galindo has been collaborating with photographer Richard Misrach and the San Jose Museum of Art to create Border Cantos, a cross-disciplinary exploration of the U.S.-Mexico border. The installation, which opens at the...