The Consequences of History and the Possibility of Poetics in an Imperiled Watershed
Artist
Speaking Tributaries
Sadie Harmon is an artist, eldercare worker, and writer based in Oakland, California. She is currently collaborating with artists Speaking Tributaries and Birdhouse, a radical artist-run school housed in the Omni Cultural Commons in Oakland. She teaches art appreciation and art classes to seniors and facilitates and organizes an elder’s book club. She has presented multidisciplinary events and projects at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, as part of their Works in Progress series; the Portland Museum of Art, in collaboration with residents at Raleigh Hills Assisted Living; the MDW Art Fair in Chicago; and the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco, as part of the show Only Birds Sing the Music of Heaven in this World. Her recent work examines the ways in which social, architectural, and linguistic change relate to aging and death.
Artist
Speaking Tributaries
Ana Labastida is a Mexican artist, educator, and arts administrator based in San Francisco. She is interested in exploring poetic strategies that reveal the overlooked and intangible aspects of the mundane. Currently, Ana is particularly interested in developing social practice projects and projection-based installations that address the physical and historical aspects of urban and natural sites. Ana holds an MFA in Social Practice from California College of the Arts and a BFA from National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has exhibited in Mexico, Spain, and the United States.
Artist
Speaking Tributaries
Jesus Landin-Torrez III is a multidisciplinary time-based artist whose work explores ideas of ritualistic practice and intimacy around memory and death. He’s interested in the places and moments in life when ritual allows the metaphysical to be channeled through the physical and how the abstract telling of such narratives through metaphor can bring better understanding to larger issues.
Landin-Torrez III is an Alaskan- and San Francisco–based artist. He received his BFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Alaska Anchorage and an MFA in Social Practice from the California College of Arts. He’s exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Performance Art International conference at Stanford University, the Anchorage Museum, the Southern Graphics Conference, and at the Wisconsin State Capitol when he was ten years old.
