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November 3, 2025
Monday, November 3, 6-7 PM
NARS Project Space, 2nd Floor
As part of our Art in Dialogue series, NARS Foundation is pleased to present a closing performance and artist talk featuring Constanza Alarcón Tennen in conversation with curator Laurel V. McLaughlin.
Join artist Constanza Alarcón Tennen and performers for a sonic activation of ceramic sculptures in the multimedia installation Sudamericana tiene memoria del aire, followed by a walk-through and conversation with the artist, curator Laurel V. McLaughlin, and guests.
This program offers a final opportunity to engage with the exhibition, on view through Wednesday, November 5. Visitors are welcome to arrive early to view the exhibition.
Sudamericana tiene memoria del aire is a chapter within Alarcón Tennen’s larger trilogy “Nazca/Sudamericana,” conceived as a poetic and material narrative around a non-scientific relationship between the tectonic plates of Nazca and South America. The multimedia installation imagines erotic relational grounds between geological masses through performative elements, audiovisuals, texts, and sound sculptures activated by performers. The exhibition is organized by curator, art historian, and writer Laurel V. McLaughlin in dialogue with the artist.
About the artist:
Constanza Alarcón Tennen is an artist from Chile working at the intersection of sound, sculpture, video, and performance. She is interested in transmaterial dialogues and in recent years has focused her practice in an integrated view on fiction and the possibilities of eroticism, and haptics, as lenses through which to see the world of both human and non-human entities. She graduated from a BFA at Universidad Católica de Chile and the MFA in Sculpture at Yale University. Her work has been shown internationally at venues such as PS122 (NY), Patricia Ready Gallery (Santiago), The XIII New Media Biennial (Chile), Atelierhaus Salzamt (Linz), among others. She has participated in residencies such as The Vermont Studio Center (VT), Delfina Foundation (London), B.A.S.E Tsonami (Valparaíso) and AIM at the Bronx Museum (NY). Alongside her artistic practice, Constanza is a teacher. She not-so-recently published her first poetry compilation as an artist's book with Otra Sinceridad independent press.
About the moderator:
Laurel V. McLaughlin, PhD, is a writer, curator, art historian, and educator working as the Curator and the Director of the Collective Futures Fund at Tufts University Art Galleries. Her scholarship and curating explores research-based sculpture, installation, new media, and social practice works activated by performance concerning formal liminalities, globalized migration, and ecological networks. She has shared her work in conferences ranging from Performance Studies International, Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, the College Art Association, and the Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present. She has published writing in BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Contact Quarterly, Performance Research, ASAP Journal, Women & Performance, among others, and recently co-edited the multidisciplinary reader Tania El Khoury’s Live Art: Collaborative Knowledge Production (Amherst College Press, 2024). McLaughlin's curatorial work has been supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Dutch Consulate of New York, and the Teiger Foundation, and she is currently undertaking a 2022 Andy Warhol Curatorial Research Fellowship for a forthcoming exhibition How do you throw a brick through a window….
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