Ocean Prototype Nights: Reclaiming Native Waterways

A virtual event in Ocean Prototype Nights, a UC San Diego "Navigating the Pacific" series anticipating Getty Pacific Standard Time "Art + Science" 2024, hosted and sponsored by UC San Diego Visual Arts, Birch Aquarium at Scripps, Institute of Arts and Humanities, Design Lab, and the Getty Foundation. 

Date | Thursday, October 14 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Location | Virtual

Activities schedule:
• 7 p.m. – 7:40 p.m. – Kumeyaay tule boats (ha kwaiyo) link land and sea, past and present in the Kumeyaay language and culture revitalization movement. Stanley Rodriguez, in dialog with Amy Sara Carroll and Nan Renner at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps.
• 7:40 p.m. – 8:20 p.m. – Kumeyaay weaving, from baskets to fishnets, show artistry and ingenuity, drawing from a varied terrain from the coast to the Colorado River. Martha Rodriguez, in dialog with Ricardo Dominguez and Lisa Cartwright at Kosay Kumeyaay Market.
• 8:20 p.m. – 9 p.m. – Position Vector Salton Sea measures the rapid disappearance of the Salton Sea on tribal lands (site of ancient Lake Cahuilla) in a site-specific art installation created by the Torres Martinez Cahuilla Desert Indian Tribal Community in partnership with land artist Hans Baumann. Hans Baumann in dialog with James Nisbet, Manuel Schvartzberg Carrió and Joe Riley at the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego/North.

Six live-streamed evening dialogs twice a quarter from October through June around the “Navigating the Pacific” project, which are "prototypes" in the sense that they show ideas in progress.


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