Rulan Tangen & Dancing Earth – 3pm-5pm SFAI
Rulan Tangen is the Artistic Director/Choreographer of DANCING EARTH - Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations (www.dancingearth.org). A lifelong dancer, she has worked in theater, feature and independent film, television, educational settings, and for health and wellness initiatives in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Europe, and the USA including with Native youth on various reservations and urban settings. She is committed to sharing dance as a primal force for cultural and individual expression, and healing on a personal, social and environmental level. Dancing Earth is a long-envisioned dream of Tangen’s, springing to life in 2004 as an inspirational array of Indigenous intertribal contemporary dance artists under her leadership. Recently named by Dance Magazine as “One of the Top 25 to Watch” Tangen balances a commitment to share dances with her inspiring home community of Santa Fe, with regional, national, and international presentations.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Roberto Sifuentes – Reading, 6pm Tipton Hall
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist/writer and the director of the art collective La Pocha Nostra. He was born in Mexico City and came to the US in 1978. Since then he has been exploring cross-cultural issues through performance, multilingual poetry, journalism, video, radio, and installation art. His performance work and 8 books have contributed to the debates on cultural diversity, identity, and US-Mexico relations. His artwork has been presented at over seven hundred venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia and Australia. A MacArthur Fellow and American Book Award winner, he is a regular contributor to National Public Radio, a writer for newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe and a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU-MIT). Roberto Sifuentes is an interdisciplinary performance artist and founding member of the performance collective La Pocha Nostra. His work fuses highly charged cultural issues with a wild pop culture aesthetic, combining live performance with interactive technologies and video as a presentation medium. Sifuentes has exhibited work at several hundred venues throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, and Latin America. As a performance pedagogue, Sifuentes has been Artistic Director of The Trinity College/La MaMa Performing Arts Program NYC at LaMaMa ETC, and recently the 2008 Elena Diaz-Verson Amos Eminent Scholar in Latin American Studies at Columbus State University, Georgia. He is currently Assistant Professor of Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Yes Men – Lecture, 7pm The Lensic
With self-proclaimed expertise, these social and political satirists don the identities of spokespersons for prominent organizations in an effort to expose the dehumanizing effects of these corporations’ policies. As the Yes Men are interviewed in the guise of these spokespeople (at conferences and symposia, on the internet and television) they respond with often outrageous ideas. For example, while posing as ExxonMobil representatives, they commented on the “worst case scenario” of transforming billions of people who die into oil to keep the oil industry running. The Yes Men practice “identity correction,” with the goal of bringing publicity to the global issues
affecting us today.

Marko Lulic – Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
Austrian artist Marko Luli´c examines modernist art and architecture through a wide range of construction materials and media, often radically shifting the scale of historical monuments and artifacts. Re-envisioning degraded structures through models, installations, and drawings, and incorporating original film, Luli´c explores potential futures in relationship to past (and present) political regimes and social philosophies. With roots in Serbia and Croatia, Luli´c is particularly interested in the lives of utopian communities and charismatic individuals such as Nikola Tesla and Wilhelm Reich.

Trevor Paglen – Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
An American artist, geographer, and author. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley, where he currently works as a researcher. Paglen is the author of three books and his photography and other visual works have been shown at numerous museums and galleries around the country. Paglen is credited with coining the term "Experimental Geography" to describe practices coupling experimental cultural production and art-making with ideas from critical human geography about the production of space, materialism, and praxis.

Patricia Johanson – Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
With the solid belief that art can help heal the earth, multi-disciplinary environmental artist, Patricia Johanson has been initiating large-scale projects utilizing city planners, engineers, scientists and citizens’ groups to create artworks that blend the radical and practical. She designs sewers, parks, and other elements of modern urban infrastructure to marry the needs of the local flora and fauna to the people living in the area. Johanson’s work reclaims nature, using its structures as a model for thinking and functioning in unison with the environment.

Mierle Ukeles – Lecture, 6pm Tipton Hall
Pubilc artist, Mierle Ukeles’ work reminds us that when we need our spaces cleared of snow, garbage, or other inconveniences, we don’t will it all to be gone – other people take care of it for us. Ukeles re-conceptualizes this first world perk into an active learning process that brings discussions of politics, environment, and society to the forefront. Through her work, creates a springboard for rethinking urban ecology and the consequences of our current actions, both toward the environment and society.

More details to come asap for the following artists:

Futurefarmers/ Amy Franceschini
Futurefarmers is a group of artists and designers working together since 1995. Their design studio serves as a platform to support art projects, an artist in residency program and various research interests. They are selfdscribed teachers, researchers, designers, gardeners, scientists, engineers, illustrators, people who know how to sew, cooks and bus drivers with a common interest in creating work that challenges current social, political and economic systems. Amy Franceschini calls herself a pollinator who creates formats for exchange and production that question and challenge the social, cultural and environmental systems that surround her. She received her BFA from San Francisco State University and her MFA from Stanford University. Amy is a professor of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco and a visiting artist at California College of the Arts Fine Arts Graduate program..

Gregory Sholette
Janet Koenig and Gregory Sholette frequently combine their graphic design and sculptural skills to produce extensively researched collaborative projects typically focusing on issues of class, history, and social justice. Their projects include subway posters for Group Material, an installation for the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and REPOhistory, a public art and activist collective whose mission focused on site-specific street signs "repossessing" lost of forgotten histories of New York City. Their work was recently included in Moving Targets an exhibition of posters on the Berlin-Poznan Deutsche Bahn rail line in Germany.

Nancy Holt
Best known for her large-scale environmental works, called “earthworks.” involving land, celestial bodies, human-made structures and time. These pieces are socially interactive, bringing together natural structures of the earth and her own sculptural elements while allowing a viewer to become a participant. Some of her earthworks satisfy the innate curiosity of watching the sky by highlighting natural occurrences such as solstices. Others explore the interaction between society and environment, such as Sky Mound, which is also a source of alternative energy.

Victoria Sambunaris
Sambunaris photographs the American landscape with a neutrality that allows for both natural and manmade structures to be seen equally, focusing on roads, houses, freight cars and the like, poking out of the landscape as if natural occurrences. These elements are sculptural, either representing the ever changing environment, land formations, and weather or the inventions and movement of humans into the dwindling wild landscape. Her photos simultaneously show the vast expanse of the land and the increasing encroachment of progress. She captures the beauty and tragedy of such encroachment, but also the technology required by today’s living standards as a part of our contemporary landscape.

Lucy Lippard
An world-renown writer, activist and curator. She is the author of eighteen books on contemporary art and has written art criticism for Art in America, The Village Voice, In These Times, and Z Magazine. Lippard has also curated over 50 exhibitions, done performances, comics, guerrilla theater, and edited several independent publications, the latest of which is the decidedly local “La Puente de Galisteo” in her home community of Galisteo, New Mexico. Recently, she curated an exhibition in Boulder, CO, Weather Report: Art & Climate Change partnering scientists and visual artist communities to begin a dialogue regarding climate change and bringing to the table ideas of how provide a sustainable future.

Jennifer Monson
Graduated from Sarah Laerence College in 1983 and has been pursuing an original approach to experimental dance forms in NYC ever since. She has developed a wide body of work that incorporates well-developed collaborative relationships with many artists including Zeena Parkins, John Jasperse, Yvonne Meier, and David Zambrano. Her solo work has been presented at many venues in the U.S., Australia, Europe, Latin America, and Tanzania. Since 1985, Monson and composer Zeena Parkins have been committed to an ongoing investigation of the dynamic interplay of dance and music. She has participated in improvisational festivals in New York, Seattle, Stuttgart, Minneapolis, Montreal, and San Francisco as a teacher, performer, and panelist. Monson is a dedicated teacher in a wide range of performance and dance communities in New York City and also teaches releasing, improvisation, and composition in New York and at various colleges throughout the U.S. and the world.