Sunday, January 31st – February 26th, 10:00 – 5:00 pm (Ticket Office closes at 4:00 pm)
Free with Estate admission: $10 for adults; $5 for children (ages 4-14).
In developing the works for the “Ancestral Journeys” installations and performances at Deering Estate, Cortada will be using DNA to trace the ancestral journeys of people living in Miami. Cortada will do so through the Genographic Project. The site-specific works Cortada proposes to install and perform during February 2010 include The Ancestral Dinner Party, Ancestral Journeys and Ancestral Miami. The artwork shows the interconnectedness between those who came from different countries across the Hemisphere to build their lives in Miami and their relationship to the natural world. In their blood they capture evidence of the routes their deep ancestors took in response to climatic changes from their original journey out of Africa 60,000 years ago. Looking at their biology to explore how nature influenced human history, the art piece will use genetic data to create a portrait of Miami’s community.
Visit Xavier Cortada’s website for more information.