Honoring El Moro: A Cuban Collective Memory (2022)
By Vanessa K. Harper
Honoring El Moro: A Cuban Collective Memory is a seventeen-year, long-format, multimedia project rooted in themes of multi-generational family unity, sense of place, resilience and survival, Cuban identity, and collective memory. The project shares stories of a sprawling, rural-Cuban, coffee-farmer family residing in the heart of the Sierra del Rosario mountains through the use of photography, video, archival imagery, collaboratively-constructed genealogies, illustrations, curated oral history interviews, and more.NOTE: This exhibit opens Friday, April 29th at 5pm Eastern.
Click here to RSVP for the opening reception!Then be sure to check out the upcoming LIVE EVENT with the curator
Wednesday, May 11, 6 PMFilming Oral History: A Dialogue of Home
Co-sponsored by OHMA and Residency Unlimited Join three artists as they explore our universal connection to place and home through oral histories in three distinct geographical spaces: the rural farmlands of Cuba, the queer swamplands of Florida, and Wiradjuri land. Narratives of resilience and survival, collective memory, gender and identity, and multi-generational community are an invitation to consider what home means to you. How do we deal with the dying—of both people and place? How does the land hold the stories we tell? This event will screen three curated short films, followed by a Q&A moderated by Pippa Mott, Guest Curator at Residency Unlimited, a non-profit art organization that supports the creation, presentation and dissemination of contemporary art through its unique residency program and year-round public programs. A limited number of tablets and headphones will be provided for the listening and viewing of additional multimedia works by the artists, but attendees are encouraged to bring their own devices and headphones to explore at their own pace.
Refreshments will be served. Masks are required. Capacity is limited—don't wait to RSVP.
Continue the conversation and dance the night away at the afterparty at Congress Bar, just around the corner.
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