Pioneers of Practice: Corday, Frankenthaler, Glass.
Saturday June 8, 2024
A multidisciplinary two-part program presented by Radius Books and SITE SANTA FE
Location: SITE SANTA FE Marlene Nathan Meyerson Auditorium
1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501
SATURDAY 8 JUNE 2024 Radius Books and SITE SANTA FE present Pioneers of Practice: Corday, Frankenthaler, Glass, a multidiscplinary two-part program organized by artist Christine Corday.
“Pioneers of Practice” is a program series by multidisciplinary artist Christine Corday in an evolving practice with a material medium shared across all disciplines. The series delves into a billion-year swath of this medium and the innovative approaches, tools, and concepts of creative practice.
The JUNE 8th series Corday explores the pioneering material composition and agency in the approaches of Helen Frankenthaler with American art historian and Stanford Professor, Alexander Nemerov; the material composition of Philip Glass and discussion of art as continued stellar evolution.
The two-part program includes a live performance of Philip Glass: A Madrigal Opera by violinist Karina Wilson: a composition conceived by Glass to receive its specific meaning or completion through the touch of stage director.
The two events are in-person and ticketed separately at $5 each; free for SITE members, students, and educators.
Ticket Orders:
10am
Soak-Stain: A Material Conversation
Christine Corday and American art historian Alexander Nemerov discuss the enduring legacy of Helen Frankenthaler’s soak-stain technique and its continued influence on generations of artists across media. Introduction by David Chickey.
Ticket Link: Soak Stain: A Material Conversation Ticket Link
Alexander Nemerov is the author of Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York (Penguin), praised by Vogue as one of its best books of 2021 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography that year. Nemerov’s most recent book, The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s, has been called by the novelist Annie Proulx “one of the richest books ever to come my way…Deeply beautiful, achingly painful, and astonishingly tender.” Nemerov is featured in Nathaniel Kahn’s HBO documentary about the art world, The Price of Everything (2018). He teaches art history at Stanford University.
Christine Corday iiis an international multidisciplinary artist known for monumental concepts and installations. Recent project ‘Sans Titre’ culminated in Art as the thirty-sixth nation and final global contributor to the material build of a star on Earth, ITER [Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France]; as well as ongoing solo museum exhibitions and public works in civic collections worldwide. As sculptor, Corday engages a material-based practice in the evolving human-scale of perception and fundamental forces. She works in temperature, pressure and material states of atomic elements in close collaboration with Nobel laureate astrophysicists and EarthShot finalist chemists; National Academy of Engineering-awarded engineers; and a broad range of material sciences, cultural anthropology, chemistry, and phenomenology.
2pm
Composition: A Material Continuation
A multidisciplinary presentation with Christine Corday on material medium, composition in discussion with a work of Philip Glass and art as continued stellar evolution. The event is accompanied by live performance of opening movement of A Madrigal Opera composed by Philip Glass.
Guest Violin: Karina Wilson
Ticket Link: Composition: A Material Continuation
Christine Corday iis an international multidisciplinary artist known for monumental concepts and installations. Recent project ‘Sans Titre’ culminated in Art as the thirty-sixth nation and final global contributor to the material build of a star on Earth, ITER [Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France]; as well as ongoing solo museum exhibitions and public works in civic collections worldwide. As sculptor, Corday engages a material-based practice in the evolving human-scale of perception and fundamental forces. She works in temperature, pressure and material states of atomic elements in close collaboration with Nobel laureate astrophysicists and EarthShot finalist chemists; National Academy of Engineering-awarded engineers; and a broad range of material sciences, cultural anthropology, chemistry, and phenomenology.
Karina Wilson is an internationally known performer blending the worlds of international fiddle traditions, classical violin music, and modern sound experimentation. With a background in classical music she has been a fixture in the Santa Fe music scene since 1997 when as a child she debuted with the Pearl Potts Ballet company as the music for their production of Beatrix Potter. Throughout the years she has joined on stage members of the NM philharmonic, NM symphony, Pro Musica, Santa Fe community orchestra, High Desert Corral, NM Symphony chorus, numerous and international dance bands both in the states and abroad. In 2004 she began a personal journey to study traditional music and the place of tradition music within the context of community, culture, history and human migration. Since that time she has traveled through 18 different countries to track and study over 30 different styles of traditional music. This work is now manifesting as a full time member of Lone Pinon Orquesta Tipica Nuevomexicana, touring nationally and most recently collaborating on a lecture series with the NM Humanities Speakers Bureau.
Her modern composition, soundtrack and sound experimental collaborations include CCA (1998) Shakespeare in Santa Fe (1999-2001) High Mayhem (2004) Santa Fe Play house (2011-2013) ARCOS Dance company (2013), Circus Luminous(2018), Lumenscapes productions (2020), George RR Martin Films(2021), music for aid And awareness with Ukrainian composer Volodimir Kuzmenko (2022), and Meow Wolf (2024).
Thank you to Kiera O’Brien, Megan Mulry, David Chickey of Radius; Kate Lee, Alex Palma, Louis Grachos of SITE Santa Fe; Douglas Dreishpoon, Grady O’Connor of Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; Karina Wilson; Andrew Primm; Adrienne White of Dunvagen Music; Jarred Grimes of Christopher Grimes Projects; with special gratitude to Richard Guérin of Orange Mountain Music.
Image Credits: Helen Frankenthaler, Edward Youkilis, Courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; Christine Corday, Courtesy of Corday Studio; Philip Glass, Courtesy of Dunvagen Music.