{"id":198,"date":"2016-06-30T13:51:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T17:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=198"},"modified":"2016-06-30T13:51:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T17:51:06","slug":"washed-up-a-lecture-with-alejandro-duran","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/event\/washed-up-a-lecture-with-alejandro-duran\/","title":{"rendered":"Washed Up: a lecture with Alejandro Duran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come hear Alejandro Duran talk about his Washed up Project. Duran will be returning to campus on <strong>July 21<\/strong> to hold a workshop with Vassar students who are on campus this summer. More information on the workshop coming soon!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the Washed Up Project?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washed Up is an environmental installation and photography project that transforms the international debris washing up on Mexico&#8217;s Caribbean coast into aesthetic yet disquieting works.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of this project Dur\u00e1n has identified plastic waste from fifty-three nations and territories on six continents that have washed ashore along the coast of Sian Ka&#8217;an, Mexico&#8217;s largest federally protected reserve and an UNESCO World Heritage site. He uses this inter<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">national debris to create color-based, site-specific sculptures that conflate the hand of man and nature. At times he distributes the objects the way the waves would; at other times, the plastic mimics algae, roots, rivers, or fruit, reflecting the infiltration of plastics into the natural environment.<\/p>\n<p>More than creating a surreal or fantastical landscape, these installations mirror the reality of our current environmental predicament. The resulting photo series depicts a new form of colonization by consumerism, where even undeveloped land is not safe from the far-reaching impact of our culture of disposable products. The alchemy of Washed Up lies not only in transforming a trashed landscape, but in the project\u2019s potential to raise awareness and change our relationship to consumption and waste. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alejandroduran.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.alejandroduran.com\/<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come hear Alejandro Duran talk about his Washed up Project. Duran will be returning to campus on July 21 to hold a workshop with Vassar students who are on campus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3947,"featured_media":199,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-198","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}