benjamin lundberg torres sánchez

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curation

  • se aculilló?
  • From Procession to Possession

I. performance

  • Ancestres
  • No Wet Materials
  • The Island
  • TO THE BONE
  • El Montón
  • Incorporated Mark: a skin-to-skin for two
  • Safety Pin Removal
  • A Lengua for Mi Boca
  • Audition for Trinity
  • Baudio (Tape 1)
  • Limpieza de Sangre
  • Parachute, (circa 1988 - 2006)
  • i dug 54 stones from the providence river
  • Product of Colombia
  • Lundberg/Torres-Sanchez (L/T-S: Pts. I-III)
  • Hold/Release
  • Naturalization (L/T-S: Pt. I)
  • Colombioplasty (L/T-S: Pt. II)
  • WHITE LIES/ EXIST TO PROTECT PRIVACY
  • Mic Check After the Zimmerman Verdict
  • Prism
  • The Same Colombian: a tête-à-tête for two
  • Memoir: Draft 1

II. visual art + installation

  • others in losing
  • Choqué: Otra Vez
  • #ColorPoll2017
  • Color Poll
  • Casa de Casta

III. video

  • for our sake, not the wind's
  • Bendiciones
  • SPIT/TAKE/PAY/BACK
  • Empire: Can’t Remember to Forget You [Pt.1]
  • The more I hold you
  • Choqué: I collide

IV. spectacles

  • Miss La La & the Roustabouts
  • There's a time and a place...
  • A New Game:
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Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006)

Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006)
Performance. (2015)

Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) begins with my mother’s archive of newspaper clippings, collected primarily from the Dallas Morning News, and presented to the me when I left home. Compiled under the terms “Colombia” and “Adoption,” these stacks of paper represent moments of cross-temporal communication from a parent to her transnational-adoptee son.

Through a process of reselection and reconfiguration within the archive, dormant for nearly a decade, I construct a 7.5-foot wide parachute in response to Dayanita Singh’s File Room & Shilpa Gupta’s 1278 Unmarked, 28 Hours by Foot via National Highway No 1, east of the Line of Control.

Activated through performance at the Queens Museum, the parachute, in a contemplation of lift and drag, explores the weight of inheritance.

Performance History:

Performed 16 August 2015
at Queens Museum
curated by Prerana Reddy & Reya Sehgal in response to Queens Museum’s
exhibit, After Midnight: Indian Modernism To Contemporary India 1947/1997

Archival video by Elizabeth Lamb & Emily Mock
Archival photos by Sam Eckmeier

Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum<br>© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum
© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum<br>© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum
© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum<br>© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum
© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum<br>© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum
© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum<br>© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum
© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum<br>© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum
© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum<br>© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum
© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum<br>© Sam Eckmeier 2015
Parachute, (circa 1988 – 2006) at Queens Museum
© Sam Eckmeier 2015