BE SURE TO SEE FULL INFORMATION BELOW FOR THE MANY EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SHOW! Funded in part by the Kentucky Foundation for Women, this is a powerful and interactive visual arts experience by Diane Kahlo in collaboration with the UK Art Department and UK's Tuska Center for Contemporary Art. While the specific subjects of the show are the women of Ciudad Juárez , the show activates a timely conversation around the implications for society when it devalues and marginalizes the life of any of its members through classifications of race, class, sexuality, gender and other labels.
IMPORTANT DATES
(1) Show Runs:
October 6 - November 4, 2011
New This Season: TCCA will be open prior to all performances by the UK Theater Department across the hall in the Guignol Theater. "The Monkey King" is the first UK Theater production which opens on October 6, 2011.
(2) Interactive “Ofrenda” Opens:
October 6, 2011
5-8p
This is a collaboration with Prof. Doreen Maloney's installation art class. The ofrenda, Spanish for "offering", is a home altar decorated for the Day of the Dead celebration to honor and please the returning souls. Students and community members who have stories about being marginalized or devalued in Lexington because of race, gender, sexuality, class or other labels are invited to share their experiences. Those wishing to participate may write anonymous or signed letters, place photos, objects or any other non-perishable item upon the ofrenda to tell their story. By placing their ofrenda on the installation those who have been marginalized can reclaim a piece of their personal power and become part of a growing community that will visibly multiply and grow throughout the run of the exhibition. At the end of the show run, all objects/stories collected on the ofrenda will be gathered by Diane Kahlo and used to generate a new art project.
(3) Opening Reception with Artist:
Monday, October 10, 2011
5-8p
(4) Artist Talk in the Tuska
Thursday, October 13, 2011
6-7:30p
(Follows the showing of a documentary film by Lourdes Portillo ~ "Señorita Extraviada--Missing Young Woman"/4:00pm in the UK Student Center / Room 230 / Sponsored by Latin American Studies Program)
(5) Depicting the Difficult: A Project Generator for Writers and Artists in the Tuska
Thursday, October 20, 2011
6:30p-8p
Speaker: Diane Kahlo, creator of Wall of Memories: The Disappeared Senoritas of Ciudad Juárez, which presents portraits of the more than 350 disappeared and murdered women of Juárez, Mexico.
Moderator: Dr. Beth Connors-Manke, Division of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
This project generator is open to writers, visual artists, filmmakers, performance artists, and musicians working on projects about visceral social and political issues, especially those related to violence. The goal of this workshop is to gather together writers and artists to share their current projects and to catalyze future multi-modal, collaborative, politically-engaged projects in Lexington.
Kahlo will speak about her process of researching and depicting the women killed in Juárez, as well as her theoretical approach to femicide and the socio-political issues along the U.S.-Mexican border.
Set in the midst of Kahlo’s powerful Wall of Memories exhibit, the project generator will be held on Thursday, October 20 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. in the Tuska Center for Contemporary Art at the University of Kentucky. Kahlo’s Wall of Memories: The Disappeared Senoritas of Ciudad Juárez will be showing from October 6 to November 4, 2011.
The event is free and open to the public. Pre-register by emailing
b.connors-manke@uky.edu.
Sponsored by the Division of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, the Department of Art, and the Latin American Studies Program.
