Quikuchá

LIVE PERFORMANCE EVENT: AUGUST 10th at 7.30pm

India Point Park, by Community Boating Center

(109 Portugal Pkwy, Providence RI)

Video projections by the Providence River and special participation from guest artists will culminate in an interdisciplinary performance.

“Witnessing the ongoing destruction of natural ecosystems, the disregard for forms of life we coexist with, and disrespect for other living beings who seek survival in moving across the land, i am convinced that our ways of living across the Americas and beyond need to be thoroughly reexamined, and reinvented. I am compelled, as an artist living in this time, to engage with art as transformation.

From a 29 feet sailboat (“Luna”) i have began to draw people by the water. Dreams become videos; journeys are drawn on new maps; and layer by layer poetic territory emerges as a collective narrative. Quikuchá is retrieved from pasts long gone, but also from a future where wisdoms ignored today are heard. Conjuring them unfolds the exercise of our discovery: what was, what is, and what is pulsing underneath.”

–lead artist, hernán darío jourdan

Artist Bio

hernán darío jourdan (he/they) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and studied filmmaking in Tokyo, Japan. After almost a decade living in Providence, Narragansett, Wampanoag and Pokanoket land, hernán has established an interdisciplinary practice that combines devised performance and interventions in public spaces with cultural organizing efforts–such as the production of large public events as well as neighborhood-centered gatherings. hernán is a MacColl Johnson Fellow (Rhode Island Foundation, 2021); a New England Creative Community Fellow (NAS, 2022), and a DESIGNxRI grantee (2023) among other honors. Learn more: [ www.hernanjourdan.com] + [ig: el_hernan_dario].