Election-Themed Art To See In San Diego This Weekend
Speaker 1: 00:00 Can't get your mind off politics, but still want to take in some art and culture this weekend. Well, fortunately we have some election and voting themed art in town, much of it on display outdoors from a powerful dance film series to a woman designed outdoor poster exhibition to Facebook artists in residence. Yes, there is such a thing. Chances are you'll find something to inspire you in between checking the news journey, maze, KPBS arts editor, and producer Julia Dickson Evans with the details and welcome Julia. Speaker 2: 00:33 Hi Maureen. Thanks for having me. Let's start with Speaker 1: 00:35 What the get out the vote poster art series. Tell us about this special exhibition. Speaker 2: 00:40 Yeah, it's something that's been on display since around mid September. So there's a chance that you unwittingly drove or walked past. These works. They're all contemporary nonpartisan poster designs by women artists across the country. The idea is to celebrate the anniversary of the women's right to vote. But, um, many of these posters take a look at broader issues of voting rights. They're on display outside of four different museum and gallery locations across the region that are all part of the new gather collective. There's the downtown museum of contemporary art, and there's also outside of bread and salt and Barrio Logan displayed on the exterior walls along Julian Avenue, and then at San Diego state's art gallery. And finally at art produce in North park. This was probably my favorite of the installations cause they have so many of them displayed in the windows right there on university Avenue and art POTUS is also going to be a polling place in the election. Okay. Speaker 1: 01:42 So get out the vote poster campaign will be on view through election day. It's free and viewable from the sidewalks. And in mural news, we have an unlikely source from some temporary public art. What has the Facebook artist in residency program brought to town? Speaker 2: 02:02 Well, corporate art programs are nothing new, but I was surprised to find out that not only does Facebook have an artist in residency program, but that it's been around for a few years and it's super active. And this project called voting his voice, um, commissioned emerging artists from across the country to do some temporary mural hangings in 10 select cities. One of which is San Diego and there's five murals around the downtown area. And they're the same across all of the 10 cities. And you can find, Speaker 1: 02:34 Find the exact addresses for the Facebook artist in residency, voting his voice murals on our website. That's kpbs.org. Now finally, a local dance. Nonprofit has commissioned a series of powerful short dance films to empower the vote. Tell us about disco riots, move American project. Speaker 2: 02:55 Yeah. So these are a total of nine short films and original new choreography, all surrounding issues of voting rights in America and disco riot pulled together. Cross-disciplinary artists, musicians, filmmakers, mostly locals to really get these stories told well, and a lot of the choreographers are pulling from their own experiences and histories as people of color participating in politics and in art. And they've been dosing at these films weekly since mid September. So right now you can find four films online so far plus resources about each of the topics there's films about voting as immigrant families on the border awareness of black women in America, parallels to the oppression happening in the Philippines and voter suppression like in one film, by any means necessary by dancer and choreographer, Darien lumen, and performed by him and Simon Greenburg. It's a beautiful duet filmed at this really desolate backdrop of the Salton sea. And it features an amazing custom metal work ballot box with some powerful spoken word plus music by Gemma Nell and Charlotte Douglas let's have a listen to that. [inaudible] that was from the film by any means necessarily by Darien Lowman. And if you don't want to wait to watch these throughout the rest of the men, they were doing screenings Saturday night at art produce in North park in the outdoor garden area, you can reserve a time spot for a half hour of viewing, Speaker 1: 04:57 Find a new move American dance film online every Monday through election day. Or you can watch them all Saturday night between six 30 and 9:00 PM in the art produce gallery garden for more arts events or to sign up for the weekly KPBS arts newsletter go to kpbs.org/arts. And I've been speaking with KPBS arts editor and producer Julia Dixon Evans. Julia, thank you so much. Thank you. Have a good weekend.
