EMBODIED PACIFIC
Immersive Oceanography, Indigenous Design, Critical Craft
Our Worlds (Kilma S. Lattin and Catherine Eng), maay-ha, 2024. Image from the extended reality work Indigenous Worlds Are All Around You, 2023. Maay-ha (sky-ocean, cielo-océano) is Kumeyaay for Creator.
A PST ART: Art and Science Collide partnership between UC San Diego Visual Arts and Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, EMBODIED PACIFIC features projects by thirty artists working with researchers in laboratories, field sites, and archives in SoCal and the Pacific Islands. We invite immersive engagement in oceanography, Indigenous design, and critical craft through exhibitions, workshops, and programs at our six venues. Exhibition site map
Exhibitions
Superradiance: Embodying Earth by Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter with SOARS (Scripps Ocean-Atmosphere Research Simulator), Claudine Arendt with Zooglider, Hans Baumann with Birch Aquarium at Scripps, Judit Hersko with the Jaffe Laboratory for Underwater Imaging, Dwight Hwang and Oriana Poindexter with researcher Mohammad Sedarat/Jennifer Smith Lab, Rachel Mayeri with FLIP (FLoating Instrument Platform), Scott McAvoy of CHEI Lab with the Jennifer Smith Lab and the Sandin Lab, Joe Riley, Audrey Snyder, and Danielle McHaskell with the Jennifer Smith Lab, Stanley Rodriguez and Andrew James Pittman of Condor Visual Media with Kumeyaay Community College, and Ash Eliza Smith and Robert Twomey with Scripps Acoustic Ecology Laboratory. Design and fabrication assistance to Claudine Arendt provided by Vittoria Amalia Tenino. Co-curated by Nan Renner and Megan Dickerson. Produced by Megan Dickerson, Tina Mau, and Robert Raad. Exhibition site map
Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen
Birch Aquarium at Scripps, opening Oct. 4, 2024
Embodied Pacific: Three Lives
Gallery QI, Sept. 26 - Dec. 6, 2024
Gallery QI is at the Quallcomm Institute, Atkinson Hall, 3195 Voigt Drive, UC San Diego (use Hopkins or Gilman Parking Structure. Geolocate Tim Hawkinson’s UCSD Bear Statue)
Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall, First Women of Oceanography, in works by Amy Adler, Nicolas Miller, Johnnie Chatman, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Lisa Cartwright with Leandro Martínez Depietri.
Works:
Jeffrey Stuker, Drawn from Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America, 2024. Film, 10m.
Nicolas Miller, Statuette (Easter Ellen Cupp), Statuette (Anita Hall), Statuette (June Pattullo), 2024. Painted resin, each 4.5 x 4.5 x 19 inches.
Amy Adler, Three Lives, 2024. Three portraits in pastel on paper, 16 x 24 inches.
Johnnie Chatman, Three views for Anita, Easter & June, 2024. Archival Inkjet Prints, 30” x 40”
Lauryn Smith, Three Selves: Patterns for Easter Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Hall, 2024. Newsprint and ink, 6 panels, each 3’ x 4’
The Gallery at Geisel Library, Sept. 23 - January 26, 2024
Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall in the Archives, with works by Amy Adler, Kimberly Heard, Judit Hersko, Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Lisa Cartwright, Joe Riley, and Stephania Torres-Londono.
Works:
Amy Adler, Three Lives, 2022. Digital photographs from portraits in pastel on paper, 16” x 24”
Kimberly Heard, Conjectural Encounter: Anita Hall, Easter Ellen Cupp, and June Pattullo, 2024. Oil, graphite, charcoal, and pastel on canvas, 3’ x 4’
Chanell Stone, Beholden: For June, Easter, and Anita. 2024. Digital photograph mounted on wood and aluminum, 5’ x 6’ 8”
Judit Hersko, Easter Cupp Series, from right to left: Portrait of Dorothy Rosenbury with Mirror, 2022 (collage, 7” x 5” x 2.5”); Dorothy with Diatoms, 2022 (collage, 12” x 9” x 2.5”); Diatoms, 2021 (collage, 12” x 9” x 2.5”).
Jeffrey Stuker, Drawn from Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America, 2024. Digital flatcase installation.
Anita Hall flatcase researched and curated by Joe Riley.
June Pattullo flatcase researched and curated by Stephania Torres-Londono.
Easter Ellen Cupp flatcase researched and curated by Jeffrey Stuker, Stephania Torres-Londono, and Lisa Cartwright with Lynda Claassen and Heather Smedburg.
Lauryn Smith, Three Selves: Patterns for Easter Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Hall, 2024. Newsprint and ink, 6 panels, each 3’ x 4’
Embodied Pacific: Seaways
Visual Arts Gallery@SME, Sept 27 - Dec 6, 2024, Geolocate UCSD Structural and Materials Engineering Building
see hours below
Navigating the Pacific with works by Simon Penny, Sakman Mario Borja, the Sakman Chamorro Group with Sheri Miller Borja and the Speculative Design Master Class of 2023, Stan Rodriguez, Our Worlds (Kilma S. Lattin and Catherine Eng), and Jessica Ashook, Lacey Coover and Trish Stone, Mimi Kaveia George, Kyle McDonald, Delsie Betty Bosi and women sailmakers of Taumako. Curated by Lisa Cartwright and Clarissa Chevalier.
SME Visual Arts Gallery Open Hours Fall 2024
Contact Clarissa at cchevalier@ucsd.edu to arrange a visit outside of open hours.
Week 1: Monday 9/30 10 AM – 1 PM; Friday 10/4 12 PM – 3 PM.
Week 2: Monday 10/7 10 AM – 1 PM; Thursday 10/10 12 PM – 3 PM; Friday 10/11 12 PM – 3 PM.
Week 3: Thursday 10/17 12 PM – 3 PM; Friday 10/18 12 PM – 3 PM.
Week 4: Thursday 10/24 12 PM – 3 PM; Friday 10/25 12 PM – 3 PM.
Week 5: Monday 10/28 10 AM – 1 PM; Thursday 10/31 12 PM – 3 PM; Friday 11/1 12 PM – 3 PM.
Week 6: Thursday 11/7 12 PM – 3 PM; Friday 11/8 12 PM – 3 PM.
Week 7: Thursday 11/14 12 PM – 3 PM; Friday 11/15 12 PM – 3 PM.
Week 8: Thursday 11/21 12 PM – 3 PM; Friday 11/22 12 PM – 3 PM.
Week 9: Monday 11/25 10 AM – 1 PM; Wednesday 11/27 12 PM – 3 PM
Week 10: Monday 12/2 10 AM – 1 PM; Thursday 12/5 12 PM – 3 PM
Geolocate UCSD Structural and Materials Engineering Building
Embodied Pacific: Weshow
Weshow: weaving a juncus basket
Kosay Kumeyaay Market, opening Sept. 26, 2024
Basketry, holography, 3D projection, and drawing by Gloria Montes Crosthwaite, Ana Gloria Rodriguez, and Catherine Eng (Our Worlds). Curated by Ana Gloria Rodriguez and Catherine Eng
Embodied Pacific: Through a Porcelain Cast
The Nest, Geisel Library, Sept. 15 -Dec. 22, 2024
Zooglider works by Claudine Arendt, Sven Gastauer, and Mark Ohman (Zooglider Lab). Design and fabrication assistance to Claudine Arendt provided by Vittoria Amalia Tenino. Curated by Clarissa Chevalier
Embodied Pacific: Mural-Canoe
Kendall-Frost Marsh Reserve, Mission Bay Opening Sept. 26, 2024, on view in daylight
The canoe and the mural form in works by Oscar Magallanes (3B Collective) and Gloria Crosthwaite; Lacey Coover and Trish Stone; and Celeste Byers, Mario Borja, and the Sakman Chamorro Group with Sherry Borja Miller (Keyshot), the UC San Diego Speculative Design Program Master Class of 2023, and David Lesser and the UC San Diego Maker Space. Curated by Stephania Torres-Londono and Megha Sanjay with Lisa Cartwright and Isabelle Kay.
Embodied Pacific: Extraction
Gallery QI, Quallcomm Institute, Atkinson Hall, Voigt Drive, UC San Diego
January 2 - March 14, 2025
Pinar Yoldaş, Gloria Montes Crosthwaite, and Paolo Zúñiga. Curated by Lisa Cartwright
PST San Diego Focus Weekend, November 22 & 23
Seaways
A PST ART + Science Collide Embodied Pacific Project event featuring screenings and panels navigating Indigenous wayfinding over water, walls, and wildfire, cosponsored by the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts and Sally Ride Science
November 22, 2024, 5-8pm
UC San Diego Structural and Materials Engineering Building, Presentation Space 149
Structural and Materials Engineering Building Room Google Map Link
RSVP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seaways-tickets-1056163175489?aff=oddtdtcreator
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Seaways Film Program
Magellan Doesn’t Live Here, Mariquita “Micki” Davis, 2012 (6m)
We, The Voyagers, Vaka Taumako Project, 2022 (44m)
Ha Kwaiyo, Our Worlds (Catherine Eng), Ana Gloria (Martha) Rodriguez, Stan Rodriguez, Raymond Martinez, Hwaa Rodriguez, 2021-4 (15 minutes of selected clips from various works)
MAATHAAW The Fire Within Us, Andrew Pittman and Lisset Valencia-Pittman/Condor Media, (10 minutes of production clips)
Seaways Film Discussion Panel
Moderator: Professor Vicente Diaz, UCLA American Indian Studies
Panelists:
Mario Borja and Mariquita “Micki” Davis (Sakman Chamorro Project)
Delsie Betty Bosi, Mimi Kaveia George, and Kyle McDonald (Vaka Taumako Project)
Ana Gloria “Martha” Rodriguez, Stanley Rodriguez, and Catherine Eng (Our Worlds ha kwaiyo projects)
Andrew Pittman and Lisset Valencia-Pittman (Condor Media)
Sailways
A panel and sail presentation with Delsie Betty Bosi, Mimi Kaveia George, Kyle McDonald, and Stan Rodriguez
Tipey Joa Native Warriors
transborder cultural conservation and social justice
Bird Singing
Dylan Luna (Our Worlds)
Sponsors: Getty PST ART; Tam O’Shaughnessy for Sally Ride Science; and the UC San Diego Executive Vice Chancellor, International Institute, and Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts
Contact: Lisa Cartwright, lisac@ucsd.edu
Indigenous Oceans Day:
Making Ha Kwaiyo
Workshops led by Dr. Stan Rodriguez and Dr Nan Renner in building a traditional Kumeyaay boat from tule reeds.
Birch Aquarium at Scripps
Nov. 23, 2024, 11am-3pm
Making Ha Kwaiyo
Workshops led by Dr. Stan and Dr Nan in building a traditional Kumeyaay boat from tule reeds harvested from local waterways. With Stanley Rodriguez, Nan Renner, and Raymond Martinez. Organized by Nan Renner.
Birch Aquarium, dates and details to come.
Oceans at Night
Nighttime 21+ programs at Birch Aquarium Dates and details to come.
Embodied Pacific: Redress
Join us in a Three Lives sewing circle with artist Lauryn Smith in this hands-on workshop at Geisel Library as we redress the absence of Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall from the history of oceanography by making garments for each woman from Smith’s dress/wave patterns, Nicolas Miller’s 3D fashion reconstructions, and archival sources. The garments in progress will be added to the Three Lives exhibition and archived in the library’s special collections.
Geisel Library, November 22, 1-3 pm, registration link to come
