Photo by: Alex Joachim
LaRissa Rogers in collaboration with Jude Rogers, Zalika Azim, and Denise Joyce an elegy for those who have come before us: Going to Ground, 2024. Two-hour durational performance. Courtesy of: Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Photo by: Steve Osemwenkhae
LaRissa Rogers. Courtesy of: the artist.
Clockshop
Fund: $45,000
Clockshop works with artists to deepen connections to the lands we live on by producing free public programming and commissioning contemporary artist projects on public land across Los Angeles. The organization will present subterranean convergence, a sculptural installation and performance score by LaRissa Rogers at Los Angeles State Historic Park (the former site of the Southern Pacific River Station) that draws on the diasporic geographies of the transcontinental railroad between the American South and West to investigate the ways Black and marginalized communities have imagined liberation—and where it might still be. Rogers will build a simulated railroad and install tabby-casted objects sourced from institutional archives and invited community members. The project explores diasporic memory, liberation, and survival by archiving the movements of people and goods across generations and geographies.
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