Seba Calfuqueo with Malcolm Peacock, Vo Vo. Moderated by Derek Franklin

Panel Discussion: Alka domo & Flowing Like Waterfalls

Seba Calfuqueo: Alka domo & Flowing Like Waterfalls is curated by Christian Viveros-Faun￩ and organized by Converge 45 and its institutional partners as part of its 2023 citywide exhibitionﾠSocial Forms: Art As Global Citizenship.

Program Details

Alka domo
Dates: August 24 - September 24, 2023⁠⁠
Opening: August 26, 12:00-4:00 pm
Gallery Hours: 12:00 – 6:00 pm Thursday and Friday / 12:00 – 4:00 pm Saturday and Sunday

Flowing Like Waterfalls
Performance: August 26, 3:30 pm

Seba Calfuqueo with Malcolm Peacock, Vo Vo, and moderator Derek Franklin
Panel Discussion: August 29 at 6:00 pm

ACCESS

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DESCRIPTION

In conjunction with the video installation Alka domo and performance Flowing Like Waterfalls, join us on Augustﾠ29 at 6:00 pm for a panel discussion with Seba Calfuqueo, artist Malcolm Peacock, and radical educator Vo Vo. Moderated by Converge 45 Artistic Director Derek Franklin.ﾠ

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Seba Calfuqueo are from Mapuche origin. Their work appeals to their inheritance to propose a critical reflection on the social, cultural, and political status of the Mapuche subject in contemporary Chilean society and Latin America. It includes installations, ceramics, performances, and video art that explore cultural similarities, differences, and the stereotypes produced by the cross between Indigenous and Western ways of thinking. Their research also aims to make visible feminist and sexual dissidence issues. Seba Calfuqueo is part of the Mapuche collective Rangi￱tulewf, which edits YeneRevista, an online magazine of art, thought, and writing in Wallmapu and AbyaYala language.

Malcolm Peacock is an artist living and working in New Orleans, LA. He earned a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, in 2016 and an MFA from Rutgers University, New Jersey, in 2019. He is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines the emotional and psychic spaces of Black subjects. Peacock is particularly interested in the intricacies of intimacy. He has shown with Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, Terrault Contemporary, Baltimore, and Rose Arcade, Baltimore, among other venues. He has participated in residencies at The University of Pennsylvania, St. Roch Community Church, Denniston Hill, and The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Vo Vo is a radical educator of 13 years in over 20 countries in racial justice, intercultural communication, trauma-informed care, de-escalation, and transformative justice. They have trained staff from over 300 organizations in OR and WA since immigrating to the US in 2014. Editor of an internationally renowned publication, speaker, curator, artist, and musician who has exhibited and toured in Australia, Germany, Indonesia, The Netherlands, Singapore, Croatia, Mexico, Finland, Denmark, New Zealand, Vietnam, Sweden, Malaysia, and the States. Local festival organizer. One of the festivals they curate is IntersectFest: A Festival For and By People Of Color – now in it’s 8th year. It has featured over 200 Black, Indigenous, and POC artists, including dancers, poets, filmmakers, curators, visual artists, and more. It also creates space to discuss radical political approaches to community organizing and artistic practice. In their visual art, they primarily work in textiles, embroidery, weaving, and furniture building. Their installations seek to interrogate power dynamics, structural oppression, and challenge histories and realities of imperialism, white supremacy, and colonization. They continue to explore support strategies and models of community care within a post-traumatic social landscape, focusing on the resilience of BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, and disabled communities.

Derek Franklin is the Artistic Director of Converge 45 and director of SE Cooper Contemporary. Solo and two-person exhibitions include To Leave No Trace (Williamson Knight, Portland), Standing Around Waiting to Inhale (Anytime Department, Cincinnati), Eyes (Ditch Projects), Gray Minstrel (Carl and Sloan Contemporary, Portland), Mending Capers (Thierry Goldberg, New York), and Meditation Furniture for Ten Minute Breaks (Document, Chicago). Franklin's works have also been presented in exhibitions at Rawson Projects (New York), Soloway (New York), Y Gallery (New York), Neter Gallery (Mexico City), Thierry Goldberg (New York), Andel31 (Copenhagen), Simone Subal Gallery (New York), Melanie Flood Projects (Portland), Performa Biennial (New York), and The Center for Creative Research (Oregon). Franklin is a former director at the artist-run space Soloway in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and his MFA from Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University.