{"id":2183,"date":"2022-12-13T14:14:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T19:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/?page_id=2183"},"modified":"2024-08-07T10:43:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:43:37","slug":"caroline-garcias-dancing-on-axes-and-spears","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/exhibitions\/caroline-garcias-dancing-on-axes-and-spears\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Garcia&#8217;s Dancing on Axes and Spears"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Caroline Garcia&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Dancing on Axes and Spears<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>January 31 \u2013 April 21, 2023<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>George Segal Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caroline Garcia\u2019s <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dancing on Axes and Spears<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> invites visitors to stretch their understandings of Filipino cultural traditions, community resilience, and personal identity in the artist\u2019s first solo museum exhibition featuring an interactive martial arts gym, virtual and augmented reality artworks, and various forms of choreography.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garcia\u2019s works explore her Filipino identity, assimilation and cultural memory, and Indigeneity through diasporic and feminist perspectives. Employing video, performance, sculpture, and installation, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garcia addresses a central theme of\u00a0 \u201calterity\u201d \u2013 an anthropological term meaning &#8220;otherness\u201d to mark her position in the diaspora where distance, language barriers, and colonization fracture traditional knowledge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The works are emblematic of the ways Garcia resists assimilation tactics within colonized land through unique survival strategies informed by elements of Indigenous Filipino culture and traditions including martial arts and spirituality, technology, and community collaborations. Garcia\u2019s exhibition at Montclair State University Galleries builds upon these themes and their relationships to larger systems including immigration, self-hood, and safety.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone,<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Curator and Exhibition Coordinator<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2183-1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/03\/Art-Forum-Trailer_GarciaS2023.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/03\/Art-Forum-Trailer_GarciaS2023.mp4\">http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/03\/Art-Forum-Trailer_GarciaS2023.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<h3>Exhibition Resources<\/h3>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\"><span class=\"prpl-button full-width\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/u\/1\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vRkTNW8VhBj3eowWe6o7NhZrQGM7oDlwkHouwWyDQ08bkQAj4Xr8o4Yfz69A2smFg\/pub\">Press Release<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\"><span class=\"prpl-button full-width\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montclair.libguides.com\/c.php?g=1258727&amp;p=9512323\">Library Guide<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\"><span class=\"prpl-button full-width\"><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/montclairstategalleries\">Social Media<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Opening Reception and Live Performance<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"h.1ci93xb\" class=\"c2\"><span class=\"c4\">Thursday, February 2, 5 \u2013 7 p.m.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caroline Garcia\u2019s<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Dancing on Axes and Spears<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with a live performance of <em>Pay Salutations <\/em>by members of the Kali Chrysalis Collective, choreography inspired by martial arts. Remarks by Director Megan C. Austin, Curator Jesse Bandler Firestone, and artist Caroline Garcia.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"prpl-drawer\"><div class=\"prpl-drawer-header\">Upcoming Events<\/div><div class=\"prpl-drawer-content\">\n<div class=\"prpl-calendar-25live horizontal\" data-filter-view=\"GALLERIES\" data-max-events=\"4\" role=\"region\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-label=\"Calendar Event Output\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-drawer open\"><div class=\"prpl-drawer-header\">Enhance Your Visit<\/div><div class=\"prpl-drawer-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2023\/03\/BBGC-Logomark-InLine-Black-300x31.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"31\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Download our free digital guide on <u><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/app.bloombergconnects.org\/78ncxc4c3wb\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Connects<\/a><\/u>, the free arts and culture app created by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Hear insights from the curator, artist; explore how students respond to Caroline Garcia&#8217;s work; and more through photo and video features.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-drawer\"><div class=\"prpl-drawer-header\">About the Artist<\/div><div class=\"prpl-drawer-content\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/12\/PAS-Studio-Portrait-Alex-Wisser.jpeg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/12\/PAS-Studio-Portrait-Alex-Wisser.jpeg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of artist Caroline Garcia, a woman wearing an off-shoulder long-sleeved black top, blue jeans, red lipstick, and earrings. Behind her is various artworks and materials for creating art.\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column two-thirds\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caroline is a culturally promiscuous, interdisciplinary artist. She works across performance, moving image, and installation through a hybridized aesthetic of cross-cultural movement, embodied research, and new media. Her practice traverses a highly personalized aggregation of distinct systems that intermix digital technologies (such as green screening, robotics, motion capture, extended realities (AR\/VR), and 3D practices) with ethnotraditional forms of knowledge (including dance, botany, poetry, and ceramics). Her aesthetic approach is often humorous and playful, and at times irreverent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caroline is a 2021 New York Artadia Awardee and a commissioned artist for Open Call at The Shed and The Sydney Opera House\u2019s digital exhibition, Returning. Her most notable projects include Flygirl, developed in residence at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in 2016\/17, and performances at the Manila Biennale, Art Central Hong Kong, and The Vera List Center for Art and Politics NYC; all in 2018. Caroline was one of the eight artists selected nation-wide for \u2018Primavera: Young Australian Artists\u2019 in 2018 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, and was the 2018\/19 recipient of the American Australian Association\u2019s AUSART Fellowship Award. Caroline has presented work at Lincoln Center, New York Live Arts, Spring\/Break Art Fair, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Movement Research at Judson Church, Smack Mellon, Creative Time Summit X, A.I.R. Biennale, and Hesse Flatow; all NYC. She was in residence at The Studios at MASS MoCA in 2019, awarded the Edwards Charitable Giving Trust Residency at ISCP, NY in 2020, a Tech Resident at Pioneer Works, as well as an Experimental Projects resident at the Institute for Electronic Arts in 2021. She is a CultureHub Resident, Wave Hill Winter Workspace artist, Franklin Furnace Fund Awardee, and a Recess Session artist for 2021-22. Caroline is an MFA in Fine Arts graduate from Parsons The New School of Art, Media, and Technology.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/p><\/div><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Garcia&#8217;s\u00a0Dancing on Axes and Spears January 31 \u2013 April 21, 2023 George Segal Gallery Caroline Garcia\u2019s Dancing on Axes and Spears invites visitors to stretch their understandings of Filipino cultural traditions, community resilience, and personal identity in the artist\u2019s first solo museum exhibition featuring an interactive martial arts gym, virtual and augmented reality artworks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":2168,"parent":23,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2183","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2183\/revisions\/2654"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}