Artist and choreographer Lindsay August-Salazar offers an alternative to rationalized notion of language in this sunset performance followed by a book launch showcasing August-Salazar’s own choreographic language.
This event is co-sponsored by Pomona College Art Department and kicks off Print Pomona Art Book Fair (PPABF) presented by the Benton and The Arts Area.
Through the action of painting and movement research-based performance, August Salazar’s work offers an alternative to a rationalized notion of language, giving opportunity for imagining other spaces and other modes of human relations—implicating limitless possibilities and generating a voice beyond hegemonic control.
Her work aims to recompose the tensions between classification and body, the colonized and the fluid, and that which defies codification.
Please join us on Thursday, March 2nd for a sunset performance and the launch of her book, An Alphabet Expanded, with a book signing and casual Q&A to follow.
Lindsay August-Salazar’s multifaceted artistic practice, informed by a conviction in the power of language to invoke political, psychological, and philosophical change and growth, is articulated through the creation of August-Salazar’s choreographic language, the Abstract Character Copies. This lexicon builds upon multiple artistic disciplines including glyphic mark making, abstraction— painting, postmodern dance, and typography, while distinctly envisioning a unique, personal form of expression and conceptual exploration of utopian ideas. August-Salazar’s works have been exhibited widely. Her most recent project was performed at The Box, Los Angeles as part of the Pieter Project Space residency. Salazar, a Medici Scholar, is the recipient of many grants and awards including the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. Her works have been discussed in publications including The New York Times, Art in America, E-Flux and Modern Painters.