Performance, Roundtable

Carolina Caycedo returns for a follow-up to her September 2021 vigil and “pagamento,” a performance and solidarity action event hosted in the context of her installation Genealogy of Struggle* in El Museo del Barrio’s Estamos Bien – La Trienal 20/21. Compostable items from the vigil have been nurturing the soil in the community garden at Union Settlement, where Caycedo, a 2020–2022 VLC Borderlands Fellow, is now planting a memorial tree and installing a sonic marker for murdered environmental activists.

The planting of the native tree and the activation of a sonic marker will be accompanied by a roundtable discussion featuring Arizona water protectors Nellie Jo David and Amber Ortega, and Tatiana Roa Avendaño, an environmentalist, educator, and researcher of Censat Agua Viva, moderated by Romy Opperman, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at The New School for Social Research.