This dialogue is part of the Arts, Technology and Social Change series, a micro-residency program sponsored by Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
Sarah Rosalena (Wixárika) is an interdisciplinary artist and weaver based in Los Angeles. Her work deconstructs technology with material interventions, creating new narratives for hybrid objects. They collapse binaries and borders, creating new theories of knowledge between Earth and space. Rosalena is an assistant professor of art at University of California Santa Barbara in computational craft and haptic media.
This event celebrates Sarah Rosalena’s mid-career survey, Sarah Rosalena: In All Directions, presented by the Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti. Through the conversation, you’ll learn how Rosalena’s hybrid forms of textile, ceramic and beadwork combine traditional and Indigenous techniques through emerging technologies. Her research and use of materials will leave you with questions to consider. What are the boundaries between the ancient and the futuristic, the human and the nonhuman, the handmade and the autonomous, the earthly and the otherworldly?
Elizabeth Povinelli is a critical theorist and filmmaker. Her writing has focused on developing a critical theory of late settler liberalism that would support an anthropology of social and political alternatives. Povinelli's has contributed an essay on Rosalena’s anti-colonial art and technology practice for the exhibition catalogue. A film by Povinelli and her collaborators in the Karrabing Film Collective is also on view at the Columbus Museum of Art. A Q&A follows the program.
The exhibition is a collaboration between Ohio State’s Department of History of Art and the Columbus Museum of Art.
This event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required
