Socrates Sculpture Park Present Performance Live-Stream by Laura Ortman, 7/22
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Wednesday, July 22, from 7 to 8pm. On Instagram & Facebook
Rain Date
Thursday, July 23 at 7pm. On Instagram & Facebook
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Please Note: The Park is closed to the public during the event, it can only be viewed online via Instagram & Facebook.
Artist Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Choctaw-Cherokee) has curated a series of performances by Indigenous artists to activate his project, ‘Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House‘ for the ‘MONUMENTS NOW‘ exhibition. The series kicks off with a performance by violinist Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) live-streamed on Instagram and Facebook. RSVP now via the Facebook event.
If you are able to, please support the performance by making a contribution to the White Mountain Apache Tribe Covid-19 relief fund.
Gibson has also invited the Indigenous Kinship Collective to perform a Native Land Acknowledgement at the Park. The Land Acknowledgment will be live-streamed on Instagram and Facebook at 6:30pm and then segue into Ortman’s performance. Donations are also encouraged in support of the Indigenous Kinship Collective, which works to empower Indigenous peoples.
Socrates closes at 4pm on July 22nd to allow for Park staff to set-up for the performance and to ensure public safety.
Laura Ortman Bio
A soloist and vibrant collaborator, Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) works across recorded albums, live performances, and filmic and artistic soundtracks, and has collaborated with artists such as Tony Conrad, Jock Soto, Raven Chacon, Nanobah Becker, Okkyung Lee, Martin Bisi, Caroline Monnet, Michelle Latimer, Martha Colburn, Tanya Lukin LInklater and Loren Connors.
An inquisitive and exquisite violinist, Ortman is versed in Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, and pedal steel guitar, often sings through a megaphone, and is a producer of capacious field recordings.
She has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Toronto BIennial in Ontario, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among countless established and DIY venues in the US, Canada, and Europe.
In 2008 Ortman founded the Coast Orchestra, an all-Native American orchestral ensemble that performed a live soundtrack to Edward Curtis’s film In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914), the first silent feature film to star an all-Native American cast.
Ortman is the recipient of the 2020 Jerome@Camargo Residency, 2017 Jerome Foundation Fellowship, the 2016 Art Matters Grant, the 2016 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellowship, the 2015 IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Social Engagement Residency and the 2014-15 Rauschenberg Residency. She was also a participating artist in the 2019 Whitney Biennial.
Ortman lives in Brooklyn, New York.
You can find out more about Socrates Sculpture Park here.