Exhibition Tour: The place where the creek goes underground
Join us for a tour of The place where the creek goes underground with the artist Anthony Romero and curators Meg Rotzel and Caitlin Rubin where they will discuss each element of the exhibition and collaboration among Romero, the scholar Deanna Ledezma, and the artist Josh Rios.
The place where the creek goes underground presents a series of newly commissioned works that form an archive of place-based knowledge for understanding and honoring what the ground tells us to remember. The exhibition centers on the region that both the artist and his collaborators, Deanna Ledezma and Josh Rios, call home, and where their families continue to reside, between South-Central Texas and Northern Mexico. Through multimedia installation and life writing, they consider how familial networks maintain practices of care and transmit intimate knowledge of place shaped by the conditions of labor, immigration, marginalization, agrotourism, overdevelopment, prolonged droughts, and diminishing natural resources.
Harvard Radcliffe Institute gratefully acknowledges the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Endowment Fund for the Arts, which is supporting this exhibition.
Anthony Romero is an artist, writer, and organizer committed to documenting and supporting Black, brown, and Indigenous communities. He is a founding member of the artistic research collective, Sonic Insurgency Research Group. Romero was the 2019–2020 David and Roberta Logie Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and is currently an associate professor of studio art at Dartmouth College.
