A Lunchtime Talk with Visual Artist Kara Rooney and Musician Fausto Palma
Wednesday, May 12, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EST
Watch the recorded program below!
A Virtual Artists Talk with Kara Rooney and Fausto Palma
The duo will be discussing their collaboration on the video work Currents, a visual, sonic and spoken word piece made in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. As an immersive sensory performance, the piece wrestles with the complex physical, emotional and psychic realities we are currently experiencing, both as individuals and as a collective body. This piece premiered as part of the online group exhibition Re/Location with AS Artist Studios in NYC in 2020. The 6 minute video work will be screened as part of the presentation.
The artist duo discuses their collaboration on the video work Currents, a visual, sonic and spoken word piece made in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis during a virtual artists talk and film screening from May 12, 2021
About the Artists:
Kara Rooney
Kara Rooney is an interdisciplinary artist and critic working in performance, sculpture and new media installation. Her visual work has been widely exhibited in international and domestic venues including Fridman Gallery, NY; TOTAH, NY; Driscoll Babcock Gallery, NY; A.I.R. Gallery, NY; the Chelsea Art Museum, NY; the Jersey City Museum, NJ; the Montclair Art Museum, NJ; the Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; El Museo de la Ciudad de México, MX; and the Karamay Museum of Fine Arts, Xin Jiang, China. She has been an artist in residence at Palazzo Monti, Brescia, IT; the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program; the MeetFactory, Prague, CZ; La Quiñonera, Mexico City, MX; and the Queens College Art Center, NY among others. Rooney is a grant recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2020), the DUMBO Cultural Space Subsidy Program (2017 - 2020) and The Santo Foundation (2014).
In addition to her visual work, Rooney has held various positions as an art critic, visiting lecturer, and guest curator, most notably as Artseen Editor for The Brooklyn Rail from 2009 – 2016. Her critical writings have been published in Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic and M/E/A/N/I/N/G, as well as included in publications by David Zwirner Publishing, Whitechapel Gallery, London, and MIT Press. Rooney earned her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2009 where she serves as a longstanding faculty member and is currently an adjunct professor at Rhode Island School of Design.
Fausto Palma
Fausto Palma is an interpreter of guitar, sarangi (a 39-string violin from North India), ud (11-string Turkish guitar) and is a composer and arranger. The styles that he uses range from Indian classical music to Middle Eastern folk as well as psychedelic rock, jazz and blues. He began his musical studies at ENA in Havana, Cuba in 1997 followed by the Conservatory of Music in Mexico City and in Egypt at The Opera of Cairo. Palma completed his formal studies at the Rotterdam Conservatory in Holland from 2000 – 2004 and in New Delhi, India, with teachers such as Ustad Fariduddin Dagar, Hari Prassad Chaurassia, Nirmalia Dey, and Ustad Asif Ali Khan from 2004 – 2005. He has been the creator of multiple musical projects such as Assalam, Zikam, Strictly Personal, and The Fausto Palma Ensemble as well as worked on award winning art films and television series such as Babel by Alejandro González Iñárritu and several films by Pedro Gonzales Rubio. Since 2005, his band Petra has produced and recorded more than 10 albums, playing in international festivals and concert halls throughout Mexico. He is currently working on a trilogy of concept albums to be released in 2021.