Join us to celebrate the opening of subterranean convergence, a sculptural installation and score for performance, by artist LaRissa Rogers. Rogers will present an original performance based on the score co-developed with her collaborator, artist Michelle Sui.
subterranean convergence, by artist LaRissa Rogers, is a sculptural installation and score for performance that draws on the geographies of the transcontinental railroad between the American South and West to investigate the ways liberation has been conceptualized—and where it might still be. Over 50 community members and institutions between Los Angeles and New Orleans were invited to contribute objects of personal or historical significance. Within a simulated railroad, chinoiserie-style tracks hold tabby-cast reproductions of these objects on the former site of the Southern Pacific River Station. This project explores collective memory and memorial by archiving the movements of people and goods across generations and geographies.
subterranean convergence by LaRissa Rogers was commissioned by Clockshop and curated by Cat Yang, Director of Artist Projects, and Isabel Yi Jimenez, Artist Projects Manager. Clockshop’s projects at Los Angeles State Historic Park are supported through our long-standing partnership with California State Parks.
The production of this work was generously supported by the Hearthland Foundation, the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Anonymous Was A Woman, University of Virginia Karsh Institute and Department of Art, Accelerated Resilience Los Angeles, Betsy Greenberg, and Clockshop’s generous community of supporters.