GABRIELA BELTRAN
Projecto
Art direction : Patricia Meneses
In collaboration with: Patrick Oleson, Oscar Medrino, Maria Benites, Gabriella Fernandez,
Christine Cortes, Alexis Leon, Doralis ponce, Michael Lopez
Audio and performance by : Gabriela Beltran, Nicholas Cordoba
A gallery space is transformed into a synthetic tropical oasis, a single wooden platform goes from the front gallery door to the back exit. Hundreds of 3D-printed translucent dragonflies hang from the ceiling allowing projected visual poems to shine through their transparent bodies. On each side of the platform is a field of black mulch on which two performers sit. A flautist improvises melodies based on the galley visitors walk cycle as they maneuver across the platform. The second musician uses these melodies as input running them through a looping machine and an AI frequency setup to create an audio environment that is constantly changing, each frequency layering on the last.
To foreign lands I sing, (A) I program of chants)
Walt Whitman Poem AI, Shed, Vocalist
Diaspora, Casa Lin, Art Basel
Vocalist- Kali Geiger
Programmer- Pablo Beltran
The cross-pollination of music, literature, and technology. A binary collaboration between Whitman's work and the work of a poem writing Artificial Intelligence. A commentary on our relationship with the land and the future that we seek in it. An exploration of historic and new improvised structures foregrounding the tools of digital intelligence as a way to critically reflect on past and current cultural narratives.
Love Love: Call and Response
Performance co-authored with Don Lambert, and Maya Billing
2018
Diaspora, Kampong Garden, Art Basel
Dancers: NWSA dancers
Performers: WARP
Vocalists: Stephany Arbelaez, Erika Vasallo, Katherine Alexander
In Love Love, performers use a tennis court as an entry point for examining systems that humans develop for social interaction. This becomes a point of departure to explore possibilities for the building of future social structures.
refuge and prospect
15 ft X 25 ft
Polyester fabric, dye, spray paint, rope
The Yard @ Casalin ,Art Basel
A continuation of the garden landscape and an investigation of its discontinuity. Taking the form of the passing wind a perpetually changing view is created. The alternation between the stable structure and the moving, dynamic apperance, between artificiality and naturalness, between design and control and unbound randomness, a picturesque illusion.
