1878 Gallery
April 21- May 27, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, April 21, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
Marcos Lutyens
The Trinity River Project: Ten Inductions, 2016
Courtesy of the artist and Liliana Bloch Gallery
Laray Polk & Marcos Lutyens
The Trinity River Project
The Trinity River Project is a collaborative exhibition by Marcos Lutyens and Laray Polk, seeking to provide an opportunity for viewers (as readers and contemplators) to become uprooted in their perceptions of the Trinity River, then re-rooted in the spirit of new possibilities. This project began with a series of ten essays, recounting the complex history and relationship between Dallas and the Trinity River from pre-colonial times to date. The essays, published by D Magazine, were followed by a weekend of guided meditations conducted by Marcos Lutyens, and a physical exhibition at the Liliana Bloch Gallery in December, 2016. The presentation of this project at GAC traces the river from Dallas to the mouth of the Trinity River at Galveston Bay.
Marcos Lutyens’ practice has centered on the investigation of consciousness to engage the visitor’s embodied experience of art. Exhibitions of infinite scale and nature have been installed in the minds of visitors. His investigations have included research with social groups such as the third-gender Muxhe, Raeilians, synaesthetes, border migrants, space engineers, and mental architects to explore how unconscious mindsets shift across cultures and backgrounds. Lutyens has developed projects that involve our external surroundings. Works include interactions with pedestrian flows, social media dialogue, air quality levels, animal and biological intercommunication.
Lutyens has exhibited internationally, such as at DOCUMENTA(13), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Royal Academy, the National Art Museum of China, and MoMA PS1. He worked in alliance with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on the 14th Istanbul Biennial, where he also created a large-scale installation on a ship, as well as preparing the public program Thought Forms and Brain Waves: Neuro-Aesthetics and Art, which included some of the world’s leading neuroscientists. Lutyens recently launched his book Memoirs of a Hypnotist: 100 Days. Present and recent work includes projects at the Guggenheim Museum, NY, the Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, the Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, the Armory, NY.
www.mlutyens.com
Laray Polk is a multimedia artist and writer. Her interests include politics, media analysis, nuclear nonproliferation, and climate change. Her articles have appeared in print in The Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, In These Times, and online at Rural America In These Times, Common Dreams, CounterPunch, Pacific Free Press, Sri Lanka Guardian, and Znet. Her multimedia exhibitions include Gaza Zoo (a project centered around the politics of captivity); and The Beautiful Obstacle (a history of the military-industrial complex at MIT). Research projects include the study of Cambodian palm-leaf manuscripts at Cornell University, interviews with Navajo Code Talkers in New Mexico, and travel to living Mayan communities and archeological sites in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve.
Polk and Noam Chomsky co-authored the book Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe in 2013. A second book on sea-level rise is forthcoming.
