La Llorona : HERstoricized

As an educational intervention and collaboration with PASEO, Las Pistoleras Instituto Cultural de Arte will join featured PASEO performance artist Rica Maestas in a creative educational workshop that will shed light and empower the true history of La Llorona and La Malinche as an espejo (mirror) to one another.

In collaboration with PASEO 2019 artist, Ori Alon, DreamTree Youth participated in a 2-3 hour workshop focused on playful paperwork such as Joy Permits, OK Parent Awards, Forgiveness Licenses, and/or refurbished report cards. The workshop had is a dual focus in self-acceptance and playful critique of adults using humor. Each youth created at least one piece of playful documentation. They also participated in a Wheel of Empathy activity, which includes having empathy for youth and/or homeless people.

Students from local Taos highschools worked with Digital Artist Morgan Barnard to create site specific projection mapping installations located at different points throughout PASEO 2019. With this collaboration students creatively explored local acequias through documentary, motion graphics and projection mapping. Interviewing community members about the history and significance of the acequia system in the Taos area, students chose sites downtown to display stories as small projection mapping installations.

On August 24, 2019, the artists presented a Fiber Farm Tour, providing local community members a pre-festival workshop that highlighted “the path from fleece to food.” The two-part tour started at Rancho La Fina. On-site at a working ranch, proprietor Patricia Quintana shared the history and current practices of grazing management and fine-wool production. Fiber artist Connie Taylor was on-site to share techniques and samples of locally crafted textiles. The tour continued to Gabriel Olguin’s family ranch where he shared all stages of production, from raising sheep to moving goods. The one-day free event honored the land through addressing issues of gentrification, economics, practices of sustainability, and civil disobedience.

In 2019, as The Paseo turns its focus towards connections, Twirl will explore the connectedness of the natural world from the (under)ground up. What magic lies beneath our feet? What we perceive is only the tippy top of a vast network of invisible connections that create and support life, including our own. We will dig deep and discover the mystery of mycelium, the earth’s largest living thing, and the fungi that grow from it. Create, play and become a part of this complex and extraordinary system. Join your community in an awe-inspiring and artful expedition into the nature of connectivity, as the Twirl courtyard comes alive with wUNDER!

The Paseo Project set up at the 2019 Invent Event hosted by Twirl Taos. Bringing along our 3D pens, youth and adults alike were invited to dream, make, and share. The Invent Event exposes Taos kids and families to tools, technologies and materials not widely available to them while inspiring them to literally take learning into their own hands and use their imaginations to invent and create.

'Visual Audio' is an interactive audio-visual projection. Audience members of all ages can create vector art using their voices. The visual output is manipulated through the amplitude and tone of the audio input in real time. A visual controller further allows the user to manipulate different visual effects, thresholds, as well as screen capturing images for later review.

“hors-affichage.” is a game installation that questions the way video games are traditionally displayed opposing planar vs volumetric displays. It is based on deconstruction and questions the way video games are traditionally displayed and thus challenging the space in which video games can be deployed. The gameplay of hors-affichage resides in the tension between the visible and the invisible, the reachable and the unreachable.

Waterlight Graffiti is a project that aims to create a material made of thousands of LEDs which lights up when touched by water. When it touches the frame of a LED, water creates an electrical bridge bringing the power required to light up the LED embedded under the surface. The wetter it is, the brighter it gets. Waterlight Graffiti’s purpose is to be a new kind of reactive material to draw or write ephemeral messages made of light.

El Agave is an immersive interactive environment that incorporates the use of video mapping projection and sensors that allow audiences to elicit a response from the Agave sculpture. As participants walk through the space their proximity, speed, and height will inform the programming language to create correlating visuals and audio. TÓ ÉÍ ÍÍNÁ ÁT’É water is life- it connects us; cleanses us; fosters growth, and nurtures the world around us.

Numinous Eye Arch welcomes guests to Paseo 2019 with multiple fire elements lighting the pathway for the Paseo. This sculpture will be erected with a number of other large fire art pieces Ive built over the years to create a sort of plaza, with the intention of staging an immersive ritualistic sound art experience that would go on for an entire night until dawn

The video projection "So Many of Us" creates two circular lenses on the screen. One lens shows moments of nature in brief, unedited clips that capture abstract or surreal moments. The other lens starts with drawings of spokes, or stars, appearing on the screen. These individual elements are then, over time, all connected via hand-drawn stop-motion animation. Once connected, they are then disconnected (i.e. the animation plays in reverse) and the process starts over again.

CLOUDNET is an ode to the vast fishing communities that have helped build and sustain Cadiz Bay (Spain) throughout its history. Using a wide variety of netting utilized in fishing, CLOUDNET is activated by the movement of the observer, as pulses of light energize the cloud from within. But this is only dimension of the piece. For it not only shares the stories and hardships of local fishermen today (via recorded interviews), but highlights the devastating phenomenon of ‘ghost fishing’, where lost, dumped or abandoned fishing gear continues to ensnare fish or marine organisms. Beyond the physical interactions with CLOUDNET, the audience is asked to consider both human and marine populations and the possibility and viability of coexistence.