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.
Exhibitions
work 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. Co-curated by Nan Renner and Megan Dickerson. Produced by Megan Dickerson, Tina Mau, and Robert Raad.
Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen
Birch Aquarium at Scripps, opening Oct. 4, 2024
Embodied Pacific: Three Lives
Gallery QI, Sept. 26 - Dec. 6, 2024
Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall, First Women of Oceanography, in works by Amy Adler, Nicolas Miller, Chanell Stone, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Lisa Cartwright with Leandro MartÃnez Depietri.
The Gallery at Geisel Library, Sept. 9 - Dec. 22, 2024
Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall in the Archives, with works by Johnnie Chatman, Kimberly Heard, Judit Hersko, Lauryn Smith, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Lisa Cartwright, Joe Riley, and Stephania Torres-Londono.
Embodied Pacific: Seaways
Visual Arts Gallery@SME, Sept 27 - Dec 6, 2024
Navigating the Pacific with works by Simon Penny, Sakman Mario Borja, the Sakman Chamorro Group with Sherry 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
Embodied Pacific: Weshow
Weshow: weaving a juncus basket
Kosay Kumeyaay Market, opening Sept. 9, 2024
Basketry, holography, 3D projection, and drawing by Gloria Crosthwaite, Ana Gloria Rodriguez, and Catherine Eng (Our Worlds). Curated by Ana Gloria Rodriguez and Catherine Eng
Embodied Pacific: Sound and Shadows
The Nest, Geisel Library, Sept. 9 -Dec. 22, 2024
Zooglider works by Claudine Arendt, Sven Gastauer, and Mark Ohman (Zooglider Lab). Curated by Clarissa Chevalier
Embodied Pacific: Mural Canoes
Kendall-Frost Marsh Reserve, Mission Bay Opening Sept. 9, 2024, on view in daylight
Celeste Byers, Mario Borja and the Sakman Chamorro Group with Sherry Borja Miller and the UC San Diego Speculative Design Program Master Class of 2023. Curated by Stephania Torres-Londono and Megha Sanjay
Embodied Pacific: Extraction
Gallery QI, January 2 - March 14, 2025
Louis Hock, Pinar Yoldaş, and Paolo Zúñiga. Curated by Lisa Cartwright
Opening events
Embodied Pacific all-exhibition opening event
Thursday, September 26, 4-6pm
Gallery QI, Qualcomm Institute
PST San Diego Focus Weekend, November 22 & 23
Seaways
A Navigating the Pacific film screening and panel at Mosaic Hall, Torrey Pines Living and Learning Center, UCSD, November 22, 2024, 5-8pm.
We, The Voyagers,Vaka Taumako Project, 2022
Panel: Delsie Betty Bosi, Mimi Kaveia George, Kyle McDonald, Sakman Mario Borja, Simon Penny
Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, Mosaic Hall, Torrey Pines Living and Learning Center, UC San Diego
Sponsors: Getty PST ART; Sally Ride Science; and the Executive Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, the International Institute, and the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, UC San Diego.
ha kwaiyo build
Workshop in building a traditional Kumeyaay boat from tule reeds harvested from local waterways with Dr. Stanley Rodriguez, Dr. Nan Renner, and Raymond Martinez. Organized by Nan Renner.
Birch Aquarium at Scripps, Nov. 23, 2024
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 dresses we make will be added to the Three Lives exhibition and archived in the library’s special collections.
Geisel Library, date and details to come.
