Guillermo Galindo Exhibition Comes to The Tang Museum In February 2018

Opening February 17, 2018, the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College will present works by experimental composer and multi-media artist Guillermo Galindo in Along the Border. Exploring the relationship between Mexico and the United States, the exhibition will include Galindo's "cybertotemic sonic objects" crafted from discarded items found at multiple sites along the 2000-mile national border between the two countries and his Flags series, graphic scores printed onto weathered flags found at the border and originally used to indicate the presence of water tanks stationed in the Calexico desert. These works reveal the human impact of the evolving economic, social, and political relationships between the two nations over the past several years.

Galindo redefines the conventional limits between music and art, and speaks to current politics, humanitarian issues, and spirituality. Galindo's artistic practice emerges from the crossroads between sound, sight and performance and includes everything from orchestral compositions, instrumental works and opera, to sculpture, visual arts, computer interaction, electro-acoustic music, film making, instrument building, three-dimensional installation, and live improvisation.

Along the Border includes a performance at the museum by Galindo of his original composition Sonic Borders II on March 20, 2018, at 6:00 pm and a workshop on resonance and sonic healing by Galindo on March 21, 2018, from 8:45-10:00 am.