Join us for the Opening Celebration of the multi-sited group exhibition, Seeing through Stone, at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, on April 12, 2024. 

Enjoy food and refreshments and an after-hours viewing of the exhibition with remarks at 7pm.

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Seeing through Stone opens at Barrios Unidos on April 19 and at the San José Museum of Art on April 26.

Explode! Platform Performance

7:15–8pm

The opening celebration features a performance by Explode! Platform, a Brazilian collective founded by UCSC Art Department’s Assistant Professor Cláudio Bueno and artist João Simões.

The artists and ten collaborators will activate at the IAS’s library through a collective performance that amplifies Brazilian abolitionist thinking by bringing diverse perspectives on liberation and the carceral system to Santa Cruz. Part of Seeing through Stone, Passagem is an installation of books, paint, metal sheets, videos, and a public program series that makes visible global struggles around abolition through collective initiatives. During the event, performers will read aloud and simultaneously, passages from books in Portuguese linked to the broader debate on abolition in Brazil, creating a sonorous and bodily experience and exploring the limits of translation.

Founded by Cláudio Bueno and João Simões, Explode! Platform was formed in Brazil and operates at the intersections of art, pedagogy, and social justice.

Location

Institute of the Arts and Sciences
100 Panetta Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95060